TheScarletPimpernel wrote:Oh and how could I forget. One year ago like the day of the closing, they showed the entire thing with the Original Broadway Cast LIVE on National TV. Most people had seen it...so they had to help them out a little! I keep hoping they announce there going to tape the final showing!

Cool! I really want to see Wicked at the moment! It looks great!

Oh and how could I forget. One year ago like the day of the closing, they showed the entire thing with the Original Broadway Cast LIVE on National TV. Most people had seen it...so they had to help them out a little! I keep hoping they announce there going to tape the final showing!

TheScarletPimpernel wrote:I saw it about a month ago...out of the blue, last minute, but I got premium seats for a discount (They release them the day before over here to the general public if there not sold at the $250/whatever price), which was awesome. I'd been watching the reality show and it was always interesting (Rooting for Emma, Bailey & Natalie from the begining...Emma + Natalie came in like 6th & 4th respectively!), so it was cool to see someone like that live...especially with the role of Elle Woods...not like Grease where you should already know what you want them all to sound like/etc.

I'm planning to see the upcoming national tour. COLEEN SEXTON, my favourite Broadway actress (whose been on B'way once! LOL. Multiple tours though), will be Brooke Wyndam. Two of the runner-ups are in the show...one is playing Margot (Elle's best friend in the musical, unnamed in the movie but the Blonde one), and another is understudying Elle.

Cool! Yeah it must have been interesting seeing the casting of something that you don't know what to expect!!

I saw it about a month ago...out of the blue, last minute, but I got premium seats for a discount (They release them the day before over here to the general public if there not sold at the $250/whatever price), which was awesome. I'd been watching the reality show and it was always interesting (Rooting for Emma, Bailey & Natalie from the begining...Emma + Natalie came in like 6th & 4th respectively!), so it was cool to see someone like that live...especially with the role of Elle Woods...not like Grease where you should already know what you want them all to sound like/etc.

I'm planning to see the upcoming national tour. COLEEN SEXTON, my favourite Broadway actress (whose been on B'way once! LOL. Multiple tours though), will be Brooke Wyndam. Two of the runner-ups are in the show...one is playing Margot (Elle's best friend in the musical, unnamed in the movie but the Blonde one), and another is understudying Elle.

TheScarletPimpernel wrote:Legally Blonde does have a story. It's actually a rather good one. The musical has been called "empty calories," "Cotton candy," "fluff," etc. though!

Have you seen the Broadway show of Legally Blonde? Do you want to?

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TheScarletPimpernel wrote:I didn't know about an Oliver one! I'm guessing Cameron Mackintosh????? LOL

Cameron indeed. Three Oliver's were cast, as well as Jodie Prenger as Nancy, who's wonderful. Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) will be playing Fagin and the ever lovely Burn Gorman will be Bill Sykes. I haven't heard Rowan sing since he was in Lion King, and I love Burn, so I hope I can get tickets

Hi, yeah, I want to see it too! I preferred Jessie though, I must say. Love the Olivers though, especially Gwion!

Maybe i'll try to see the film some time, sounds good!

TheScarletPimpernel wrote:I didn't know about an Oliver one! I'm guessing Cameron Mackintosh????? LOL

Cameron indeed. Three Oliver's were cast, as well as Jodie Prenger as Nancy, who's wonderful. Rowan Atkinson (Mr Bean) will be playing Fagin and the ever lovely Burn Gorman will be Bill Sykes. I haven't heard Rowan sing since he was in Lion King, and I love Burn, so I hope I can get tickets

I didn't know about an Oliver one! I'm guessing Cameron Mackintosh????? LOL

Legally Blonde does have a story. It's actually a rather good one. The musical has been called "empty calories," "Cotton candy," "fluff," etc. though!

Overall story:

Elle Woods (title character) is a senior at UCLA (a university here in California) who "hass everything she wants" whatever with a boyfriend that is going to Harvard Law School in the fall (in Boston..I'm guessing you know that one!), and she believes that he is going to propose to him. When he ends up breaking up with her like 15 minutes into the play (same sort of for the movie), Elle decides "what she wants" is to follow him to Harvard. Fast forward when she gets in, she finds out Warner has a girlfriend, who is nasty to Elle (Vivienne). After this it differs from the movie & musical! But in short of Act 1, no one takes her seriously (thus Legally BLONDE), except Emmet a teacher-aide/person-like who then after she is mocked by Viviienne at a party that she tells Elle is a costume party; Elle decides to actually show up Warner to try to win him back still. After a victiourous classroom victory against him, four people are selected for the internship of their teacher. Vivienne, Warner, Enid (Vivienne's friend/a Lesbian [LOL ranodm plot detail????]), and ... ELLE! (So Much Better).

Act II opens with a suspected murderess Brooke Wyndam, who is actually a Delta Nu (Elle's sorioty back at UCLA) and the only one she trusts is Elle with her embarassing aliby, which would threaten her business (workout tapes). Bunch of random plot twists/what not as much as Act II is the trial, Elle actually becomes the lawyer in charge as opposed to intern!, more plot, then ends at graduation.

I tried to eliminate most of the spoilers/not a complete synopsis. Just about 95% of the people over ehre have seen the movie! Like there's a main character named Paulette who owns a beauty Salon that Elle is frequently at. Heard of the "Bend & Snap"? LOL

It's really catchy/jumpy but not in a bad way (Honestly, I'm just about NEVER a fan of these type of musicals...I'm into like EVITA, Woman in White, A Tale of Two Cities (new one over here that doenst look like itll last!), Les Mis, Jekyll & HYDE, The Scarlet Pimpernel (although the latter two are a little pop-y!), and most of ALW's works! The lyrics aren't anything that great, but there just kind of funny and it's all-around one of those "feel-good" shows. I suprisingly haven't ran into too many peopel who haven't liked it. Most (somewhat like me) recognize it for what it is!, and some of the awful stuff to it (mostly lyric wise...OMIGOD You Guys is one of the songs!), but it really is a nice, care-free piece that will really have you forget your worries for those 2.5 hours!

It's actually just about all on YouTube.com. It was filmed, "live" for MTV showing around this time last year...while the show was(& still is right now) on Broadway. First time (and probably the last) that that EVER happened, while the show was still on. My fav: Jekyll & HYDE was filmed with David Hasselhoff but like most are released AFTER they closed. (LB is NOT on DVD, just illegally recorded/whatnot from the MTV showing and others!).

TheScarletPimpernel wrote:Nah, "I'd Do Anything" is the Joseph one right? I'm not really a fan of Joseph (the only ALW I don't really like!) but it didn't even get shown over here. Our GREASE one was DIRECTLY taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber's idea so some of the Sound of Music ones were shown over here.

We've only had 2 casting things. The GREASE and Legally Blonde one (which actually much more people watched, it was on MTV if you know what that is!).

Legally Blonde the movie with Reese Witherspoon was a huge, ginormous hit over here especially a few years ago, and is now a Broadway musical. Reportedly, it's been heading over there for a while, but I haven't hearda nything about it in a while! Try to pick up a CD of it or the song "So Much Better" is really great (among others, "Positive" LOL!).

No, Any Dream Will Do is the Joseph one, I'd Do Anything is Nancy and Oliver casting for Oliver. I know what MTV is! Does Legally Blonde have much storyline?