mispelling MEXICANS? in spelling bee 8/09

[stagebeauty]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 9:12pm

i thought this was pretty hilarious. one of the audience spellers spelled MEXICANS as M-E-X-A-C-A-N-S

since this was my first time seeing the show, i wasnt sure if he was TOLD to spell it wrong so they could sing the goodbye song... but then i highly doubted it.

so condolences to the doctor who spelled MEXICANS wrong in front of a packed house.

[broadwaystar2b]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 9:17pm

I don't think he was told to mispell
When I saw it, the man who was given "Mexicans" spelled it correctly
Good grief, a doctor... that's sad

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 9:18pm

Sounds like he's a Mexi-CAN'T.

[broadway betty]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 10:00pm

To be fair to this Doctor, he was probably nervous. I'd know I'd probably mispell the word if I was a guest speller. The Mexicans joke was one of the funniest for me, or one of the easier ones to remember, lol.

[corsairstw]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 10:11pm

I saw the show recently with my acting camp this summer. One of the music teachers was selected to be part of the show, so that was pretty fun for us. Also, I got to meet David Hasselhoff who happened to be at the show!

The only bad thing was that the asian/american girl lost her voice during the show so they had to stop it for a few minutes while they asked David Hasselhoff to come up from the audience and spell a word.

It's live theater, folks!

But anyway, our teacher said that they didn't tell them to misspell words. They were supposed to keep going until they got one wrong. Our teacher was the last audience member standing before they gave him, "xenophlology" or something... Yeah... he got that one wrong.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 10:17pm

I just think these doctors should learn how to speak god damn english.
Updated On: 8/12/05 at 10:17 PM

[nychick9876]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 10:26pm

how are the guest spellers selected? is it just by whatever name is on the card that bought the tickets?

[soulman83]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 10:28pm

Actually when i saw it the guy who had the word MEXICANS spelled its M-E-X-I-C-A-N-O-S. haha loved it!

[DefyingPopular]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 10:48pm

I've seen it twice, and they spelt mexicans right both times.

However, one of them times, a 10 year old kid was a speller and he had to spell COW and of course he got it right, however they asked him to spell something else and i'm SURE he spelt it wrong, but they gave it to him... and it was SO funny to see the guys reaction (the vice principal) when the kid 'got' it.. then of course they gave him the eye problem one. Which everyone starts w/ a Z but u know it's a X...

[stagebeauty]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 11:12pm

they pick the volunteer spellers in the lobby before the show starts and before the house opens. they pick about 10 volunteers but only choose four according to what they need [age, gender, etc.] and theyre just part of the show until they mispell a word