Columbia College Chicago Theatre Alums Bring ‘25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ to Paramount Theatre March 12-April 27

    Columbia College Chicago Theatre Program alums and faculty are in the cast of Paramount Theatre‘s production of the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, running March 12 through April 27 at Paramount’s Copley Theatre, located at 8 E. Galena in North Island Center in downtown Aurora, Illinois. For tickets, click here.

    Ann Delaney

    The show’s cast includes Columbia College alum Ann Delaney ’14, a graduate of the Theatre Program’s BFA Program in Musical Theatre Performance.

    Ann Delaney plays Logainne Schwartzandgrubenniere, the youngest contestant in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” (Photo: Amy Nelson)

     

    Ann Delaney plays Logainne Schwartzandgrubenniere, the youngest contestant in “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” (Photo: Amy Nelson)

    Delaney plays Logainne Schwartzandgrubenniere, one of a group of schoolkids competing in an annual spelling bee.

    Kory Danielson

    Susan Gosdick

    Jim Corti

    The show’s music director and music supervisor, Kory Danielson, is a former Columbia College Theatre Program student and staff accompanist. Columbia College Chicago School of Theatre and Dance faculty member Susan Gosdick is the show’s dialect coach. And Paramount’s artistic director, Jim Corti, is a former teacher of Musical Theatre Dance in Columbia College’s Musical Theatre Program.