Chicago Spelling Bee Offers Rush Ticket Lottery

Chicago's production of the Tony-award winning Broadway musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will offer a day-of-performance drawing for seats in the first two rows at $25 each.

The drawings will take place Tuesday through Thursdays at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place, 175 East Chestnut Street in Chicago, and Fridays through Sundays (starting April 7) at the Borders Books and Music, located near the theater at 830 North Michigan Avenue. (Note: There will not be a drawing on March 28 or April 11.)

Entry forms will be available on the day of performance at the specified location during regular business hours. Two hours prior to each performance names are drawn. Those selected will be entitled to purchase one or two tickets at $25 each. Patrons must be present with valid photo I.D. and purchase with cash to qualify for these seats.

Ghd Chicago production of Spelling Bee is produced by David Stone, who also brought Wicked to Chicago, and directed by James Lapine, the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winner who also directed the Broadway production. The musical, conceived by Rebecca Feldman, features music and lyrics by Tony Award-winner William Finn (Falsettos, Elegies) and a Tony Award-winning book by Rachel Sheinkin with additional material
by Jay Reiss.

"In the musical comedy, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, six young people in the throes of puberty, overseen by grown-ups who barely managed to escape childhood themselves, learn that winning isn't everything and that losing doesn't necessarily make you a loser," state press notes.

Spelling Bee appears in an open-ended engagement at Chicago's Drury Lane Theatre, located at 175 East Chestnut Street. The performance schedule is as follows: Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesdays at 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 2 & 8 p.m.; and Sundays at 2 p.m.

Individual tickets range in price from $59.50 - $69.50 and are available at the Drury Lane Box Office (175 East Chestnut Street) as well as all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St. and 151 W. Randolph St.), through the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (312) 902-1400, at all Ticketmaster ticket centers (including all Carson Pirie Scott stores, Tower Records, Hot Tix, select Coconuts and fye stores) or online at ticketmaster.com.

Tickets are available for groups of 20 or more by calling (312) 977-1710. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is part of the Neumann Homes Broadway In Chicago 2006 Season Series. Season Series tickets are available now by calling toll-free to (877) 890-0174.

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