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The national tour of the Tony Award-winning William Finn musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is now set to pollinate America; dates and venues have been set for its previously-announced national tour.
Following the show's limited four-week engagement at Atlanta's ALLIANCE THEATRE, beginning August 23rd, the tour will fly to Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre (Sept. 19th-Oct. 1st), Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall (Oct. 31st-Nov. 5th), Minneapolis' State Theatre (Nov. 7th-12th), Cincinnati's Aronoff Center for the Arts (Nov. 14th-26th), the Orange County PAC in Costa Mesa, CA (Dec. 9th-31st), Portland's Keller Auditorium (Jan. 2nd-7th, 2007), Seattle's Paramount Theatre (Jan. 9th-14th), San Antonio's Majestic Theatre (Feb. 6th-11th), the Kentucky Center in Louisville, KY (Feb. 20th-25th), Fort Lauderdale's Broward Center for the Performing Arts (March 13th-17th), Tampa Bay's Carol Morsani Hall at TBPAC (March 27th-April 1st) and Orlando's Carr Performing Arts Centre (April 10th-15th). No casting has yet been announced, although the Broadway creative team is set to return.Spelling Bee is a current hit at San Francisco's Post Street Theatre in its sitdown production, while another open-ended resident staging of the show will begin performances in Chicago at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place on March 28th.Videos