A two-time Orlando Sentinel award winner, Thomas has appeared on stages from Orlando Shakes at Lake Eola, where she just starred as Audrey in “Little Shop of Horrors,” to St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, from Theater West End in Sanford to the Garden Theatre in Winter Garden.
Orlando Fringe Festival reviews by Orlando Sentinel theater critic Matthew J. Palm of "Shakespeare's Reservoir Dogs," "You'll Figure It Out . Eventually," "ExperiMental" and "Hexed: A Femme Rock Musical."
Oh, the adolescent terrors of a spelling competition are nothing compared with the terrors of simply existing as an adolescent, writes Orlando Sentinel Theater Critic Matthew J. Palm.
Oh, the adolescent terrors of a spelling competition are nothing compared with the terrors of simply existing as an adolescent. That’s a message of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” a chipper musical prone to moments of darkness as it follows six young students, played by adults, through the rigors of a public display of their ABC’s. Celebration Theatre Company is staging the .
Celebration Theatre Company continues its fifth season with Rachel Sheinkin and William Finn s Tony Award-winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, running from April 30 - May 9, 2021 at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts Alexis and Jim Pugh Theatre. Audiences will buzz along with six highly (and some not-so-highly) intelligent children and their personal relationships with life, love, family, and their passion for spelling.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee features an eclectic group of six mid-pubescents going head-to-head in the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming ding of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves! At least the losers get a juice box.