Did they cut "Why We Like Spelling" from SPELLING BEE eventually?

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Did they cut "Why We Like Spelling" from SPELLING BEE eventually?

Posted: 7/6/08 at 6:35pm

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

re: Did they cut 'Why We Like Spelling' from SPELLING BEE eventually?

Posted: 7/6/08 at 6:44pm

Wasn't it never actually in the show?

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

re: Did they cut 'Why We Like Spelling' from SPELLING BEE eventually?

Posted: 7/6/08 at 10:56pm

yeah, im 95 percent sure they just recorded it for the CD

re: Did they cut 'Why We Like Spelling' from SPELLING BEE eventually?

Posted: 7/6/08 at 11:01pm

I don't think it was ever in the show...

re: Did they cut 'Why We Like Spelling' from SPELLING BEE eventually?

Posted: 7/6/08 at 11:07pm

It was originally slated to be the Act Two opener, but when the intermission was scrapped, as was the song. It was never in the show, but the cast did perform it from time to time at promotional events and such.

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