Joshua Harding of Federalsburg Performs in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at McDaniel College from Wednesday, March 4 - Saturday, March 7

2015 Feb 23

McDaniel College junior Joshua Harding of Federalsburg, Md. performs in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at McDaniel College, 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md. Harding plays the role of last year's spelling bee finalist William “Barfee” . Performances are Wednesday, March 4 - Saturday, March 7, 7:30 p.m., in WMC Alumni Hall.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors, veterans, students, and those with a McDaniel College ID. For tickets, call 410-857-2448.

This quirky one-act show centers on a middle school spelling bee and chronicles the experiences of six adolescents vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show includes improvisation and audience participation.

"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" is based on an original improvisational play conceived by Rebecca Feldman and performed by The Farm, a New York improvisational comedy troupe. The 2005 Broadway production, directed by James Lapine and produced by David Stone with music and lyrics by William Finn, was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning two, including Best Book.

Visit www.mcdaniel.edu for more information about the college and the theatre arts department.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 "Colleges That Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research,teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.