By Patty Hullett
For the Daily Light
Jericho Thomas, third-year theater teacher at Red Oak High School, is the acting and technical director of the Broadway musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which will be performed at the high school May 21-22.
This 2005 Tony award-winning production will have Thomas’ theater students as his actors in this production, which features the hilarious, heartwarming musical about awkward, school-age spellers vying for the ultimate prize: a spot in the National Spelling Bee. A proven crowd-pleaser, Putnam also invites audience volunteers at every show to come onstage to compete in the bee (with predictably entertaining results).