Legally Blonde

Synopsis

College sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods doesn't take no for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone serious, Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and heads for Harvard Law! Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

Our Review:

Karen Bussell - 24 July 2012

Frothy, frivolous and fun – that’s Legally Blonde The Musical currently on tour.

Great to have live music – and Peter White keeps the orchestra under tight control – but 2011 Olivier award-winners [Laurence O’Keefe] and Nell Benjamin’s score is not particularly memorable.

That said, the O’Keefe and Benjamin’s lyrics and Heather Hach’s book are great fun and wonderfully satiric (or at least those I heard as words were muffled and the sound balance was disappointingly not good for the most part) with the law lecturer’s “Blood In The Water” and the courtroom question – “Is He Gay or European?” - of particular note.

Playing to a full house, it would seem, by their own admission, that the older members of the audience just didn’t get it. Perhaps this is one more for the young and female. There’s lots and lots of singing and dancing, Greek chorus and slapstick but at the heart of it all is great wit and satire which was unfortunately drowned i...

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