Legally Blonde

Synopsis

This all singing, all dancing, feel good comedy Legally Blonde The Musical tells the story of sorority star Elle Woods, who when her boyfriend dumps her for someone serious, puts down the credit card, hits the books, and heads for Harvard Law School. Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.

In 2001 Amanda Brown’s novel Legally Blonde was made into a film starring Reese Witherspoon, produced by MGM and directed by Robert Luketic.

Legally Blonde Broadway opened in 2007 and received seven Tony nominations. The creative team is led by Tony Award-winning director and Olivier Award-nominated choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Hairspray).

Legally Blonde London began previews at the Savoy Theatre in December 2009 and officially opened in January 2010. In addition to Sheridan Smith in the lead role the cast and featured Duncan James, Jill Halfpenny and Peter Davison. Notable replacements have included Susan McFadden, Carley Stenson, Richard Fleeshman,  Denise Van Outen, Natalie Cassidy and Lee Mead.

Ben Freeman plays Emmett from 27th October 2011.

Legally Blonde scooped 4 awards at 2011 Whatsonstage.com Awards, Best New Musical, Best Choreographer, Best Actress in a Musical and Best Supporting Actress. It also won the 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical, Best Actress in a Musical Award and Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.

Whatsonstage.com have some great Legally Blonde tickets so come and make this all singing, all dancing, feel good musical comedy the highlight of your year....because this much fun shouldn't be legal!

Our Review:

Michael Coveney - 14 January 2010

For a musical comedy show that name-checks Gloria Steinem and Thomas Hobbes, features a Greek chorus and lewd lines about the boning of skanks and the flaunting of packages, Legally Blonde might sound like an unholy alliance between Martin Crimp and Steven Berkoff with a few tunes by Tom Waits thrown in to cheer us up.

Actually, such a show I wouldn’t mind seeing. I didn’t much mind Legally Blonde either, but of course there’s something else about it: it’s very pink, it operates on the nudge-nudge assumption that all blondes are stupid or frivolous – the legal case is won in the end by a hair-care demonstration – and it’s highly, you could say exhaustingly, energetic.

Jerry Mitchell’s production, played out on a series of amazing primary-coloured, day-glo sets by David Rockwell that obliterate the supposed cultural distinctions between East coast and West in America, is a thing o...

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Latest User Review

Susanne - 17 September 2011:

I love this show and have seen it 3 times now. But what a shame the current cast under perform in almost every way. The previous Elle woods, Susan McFadden just sparkled in the role and had an amazing voice. Why the producers think Carly stenson is now up to the job is beyond me. Her voice is really weak and her chemistry with Lee mead very poor. Talking of Lee mead, he really can't act, put minimal effort into his performance and I felt like he'd rather be somewhere else the entire time he was on stage. Bring back the amazing Alex gaumond to show Lee how it should be done. A fab show has been ruined by a second rate cast. Such a shame. ...

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