I hope it will come back to the United States. I loved him and saw him twice while he was here. I would now like to take my 14-year-old daughter to see him. I never understood why it didn`t stay longer :(?? Legally Blonde is a 2007 musical comedy by Laurence O`Keefe and Nell Benjamin. The film is based on Amanda Brown`s novel Legally Blonde and the 2001 film of the same name. Orfeh has released several albums and married Andy Karl, co-star of Legally Blonde. In addition to various appearances on television shows such as Law & Order and Sex and the City, she made her Broadway debut in a production of Footloose in 1998. Since then, she has starred in several musicals, including Love, Janis, Dreamgirls, Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. Legal Blonde opened for Broadway at the Palace Theatre on April 29, 2007. The musical with music by Laurence OâKeefe and Nell Benjamin and a book by Heather Hach premiered 30 previews and 595 performances before ending on October 19, 2008 and receiving seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Original Score. The musical was filmed on September 18, 2007 in front of a live audience for television, as well as on two other dates when it was filmed without an audience.

All three edited performances aired on MTV on October 13 and 14, 2007, with additional airing dates on November 3 and 14, 2007. MTV`s involvement in the musical continued with a reality show called Legally Blonde: The Musical – The Search for Elle Woods, which aimed to hire the next actress to play Elle Woods on Broadway. to replace Laura Bell Bundy. The show was hosted by Haylie Duff and premiered on MTV on June 2, 2008. The show ran for eight episodes.[10] The focus was on the preparation and coaching of the participants, as well as on the auditions themselves. The competition was won by Bailey Hanks, 20, of Anderson, South Carolina. The results premiered on MTV on July 21, 2008,[12] and Hanks` debut as Elle Woods took place on July 23.[11] The finalist, Autumn Hurlbert, also made her Broadway debut in this show as sister of the sorority in Delta Nu and served as an understudy to Hanks.[11] The musical stars Laura Bell Bundy as Elle Woods alongside Christian Borle as Emmett Forrest, Orfeh as Paulette, Michael Rupert as Professor Callahan, Richard H. Blake as Warner Huntington III, Kate Shindle as Vivienne Kensington, Nikki Snelson as Brooke Wyndham, Annaleigh Ashford as Margot, Leslie Kritzer as Serena, DeQuina Moore as Pilar and Andy Karl as Kyle/Dewey.[13] Elle`s snobbish classmates disapprove of her clothes, and the only person willing to help her is legal assistant Emmett Forrest (“The Harvard Variations”).

However, he cannot protect her from the bloodthirsty Professor Callahan (“Blood In The Water”) in class. Callahan kicks Elle out of the classroom at the suggestion of her classmate Vivienne Kensington, who happens to be Warner`s new friend. This “tragedy” evokes the apparitions of the sisters of Delta Nu, who, as a Greek choir visible and audible only by Her, encourage them to remain positive (“positive”). She, believing that the blonde is the problem, decides to become a brunette. She goes to the Hair Affair salon, where she meets beautician Paulette, who, after telling Elle about her hair dyeing plan, tells Elle that when she`s down, she puts on her favorite Celtic Moods CD and dreams of Ireland and her Irishman dream. In the living room, Vivienne unexpectedly invites Elle to a costume party. Paulette sends Elle dressed in a costume for the party with encouraging words (“Ireland (Reprise)”). During its broadcast in San Francisco, the musical featured a song called “Love and War,” but when it aired on Broadway, the song was replaced by what is now “Positive.” [3] Another predecessor of “Positive” was “Beacon of Positivity”. The musical received mixed reviews, but was hailed as a fun and optimistic production.[4] Ben Brantley, who reviewed the musical in the New York Times, wrote that the show was an “energetic, empty and expensive hymn to the glory of femininity.” He praised Laura Bell Bundy, saying, “She sings and dances perfectly, and she delivers silly lines as if she meant them.” [55] Clive Barnes, in his review in the New York Post, praised Heather Hach`s book, but criticized the “amorphous, synthetic, and incredibly empty music” and summed up the show as “an enjoyable, albeit noisy, night.” [56] Elysa Gardner wrote for USA Today that the musical was a “flattering trifle” and that the “cast ensures that events, no matter how condescending, are not irritating.” [57] Jeremy McCarter lamented in New York Magazine that the musical “evokes no memory of Tracy Flick, the student council activist who played Reese Witherspoon in Election before starring in Legally Blonde,” and wrote that the “manic drive” in Witherspoon`s performance in Legally Blonde was her favorite part of the film.

[58] She, believing that the blonde is the problem, decides to become a brunette.