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

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

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BustopherPhantom
#1Did they cut "Why We Like Spelling" from SPELLING BEE eventually?
Posted: 7/6/08 at 6:35pm


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-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

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LizzieCurry
#2re: 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?


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delucad15
#3re: 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

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WiCkEDrOcKS
#4re: 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...

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#5re: 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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