Spelling Bee love! — Page 79

OK, this is adorable. :) (And I THOUGHT Stanley was part Asian!)

My dressing room-mate, the stentorian James Monroe Iglehart (Mitch), a commanding presence with a booming baritone (think Laurence Fishburne or young James Earl Jones), brought me a bouquet of daisies and insisted on giving me the foot massage prescribed by Jared.

Finally, the angelic and sweet-as-honey-voiced Jenni Barber (Olive), took a more traditionalist stand: "Drink some tea and get your ass out on stage. You don't have a singing part. What the F*#k? Have some sack."
Mr. Rocca Regrets ... Broadway's Best Remedies

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I saw a pic of him once with an "Everybody loves an Asian boy" t-shirt. LOL...

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just wanted to point out that Aaron posted some new videos on his website:
http://www.aaronjalbano.com/media.html

He sounds amazing!

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so CNN.com has a story up on their site right now about Mo Rocca in Spelling Bee, and it just cracked me up because of this part:

For all the open-ended banter with contestants, Rocca also carries the heavy responsibility of making sure none of the audience participants throw off the plot by outspelling the cast members.

The woman compared to Mrs. Doubtfire astonished Rocca by correctly spelling a whaling term of unknown origin, forcing him to call her back immediately. She came close to spelling his next word, an ophthalmological term.

"Believe me," he says. "I'm prepared. I don't anticipate a situation where we're going to be kept there for eight hours."

OMG y'all, can you believe that the audience member spelled caterjunes/ catterjunes/ caterjoones correctly?!? I just love the way that the CNN.com story worked that in there, both as something unusual, and as some type of example of how *Rocca,* and not the book of the show, is the one controlling that and making it happen.

Ex-'Daily Show' correspondent gets buzz in 'Bee'

So who's watching the national spelling bee? I love watching the real thing and see how similar it is to the musical.

"So who's watching the national spelling bee?"

i am! ah, reminds me of my spelling bee days...

who knew that by watching this, that this could be a good musical?

I saw it for the first time tonight and I didnt know what to expect and I didnt know if I'd like it but I havent laughed that hard in a LONG time. One of the audience members was this kid with a big blonde afro and he was SOO into it. he kept blowing kisses and make gestures for the male cast members to call him when they would stare at him. It was so great. i cant wait to see it again.