The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - Musical Numbers

Musical Numbers

(Songs are not listed in the Playbill since with audience members on stage, the timing of the "Goodbye" songs varies with each show and because it could spoil who wins the bee.)

  • "The Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" – Company
  • "The Spelling Rules"/"My Favorite Moment of the Bee" – Rona and Company
  • "My Friend, the Dictionary" – Olive and Company
  • "The First Goodbye" – Panch and Spellers
  • "Pandemonium" – Panch, Spellers and Mitch
  • "I'm Not That Smart" – Leaf, Spellers and Panch
  • "The Second Goodbye" – Panch and Spellers
  • "Magic Foot" – Barfée, Rona and Company
  • "Pandemonium (Reprise)"/"My Favorite Moment of the Bee (Reprise)" – Rona and Company
  • "Why We Like Spelling" – Spellers
  • "Prayer of the Comfort Counselor" – Mitch, Panch and Spellers
  • "My Unfortunate Erection (Chip's Lament)" – Chip
  • "Woe is Me" – Logainne, Carl, Dan and Company
  • "I'm Not That Smart (Reprise)" – Leaf
  • "I Speak Six Languages" – Marcy, Rona and Girls
  • "The I Love You Song" – Olive, Olive's Parents, and Panch
  • "Woe is Me (Reprise)" – Logainne and Mitch
  • "My Favorite Moment of the Bee (Reprise)"/"Second" – Rona, Panch, Barfée, Olive and Company
  • "Finale" – Rona and Company
  • "The Last Goodbye" – Company

(In many regional theater productions of 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Vice Principal Panch sings "A Marriage Proposal" from another musical by William Finn, "Falsettos," after Panch laments on his breakdown. The song is sung about Rona. This has only been done by regional theaters who have cut songs from the original recording.)

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