In the Tony Award-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barley managed to escpae childhood themselves, learn that winning isn’t everything and that losing doesn’t necessarily make you a loser. spelling Bee has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “perfect in every possible way-that rarity of rarities, a super-smart musical that is also a bona fide crowd pleaser.”