Legally Blonde comes on stage · 2007-04-30 17:08
Legally Blonde, the new musical based on the Amanda Brown novel and the 2001 film of the same name, opens at Broadway’s Palace Theatre April 29.
According to Bloomberg web site, if you loved the movie “Legally Blonde,” you may also like its musical-comedy version.
If you disliked the movie, you may dislike the Broadway musical just as much.
“Blonde”’ concerns Elle Woods, darling of the Southern California branch of Delta Nu, top student in fashion merchandising and about to get engaged to dashing Warner Huntington III. But Warner has other plans: Harvard Law School and the U.S. Senate.
But she overcomes all obstacles.
Bloomberg correspondent says, that Elle (Laura Bell Bundy) in musical is even better than Reese Witherspoon, who played her on film.
Bundy has rather more charm and at least marginally better looks, and sings and dances creditably.
The exemplary cast boasts fine work from Christian Borle, Orfeh, Richard H. Blake, Kate Shindle, Nikki Snelson and Michael Rupert, supported by a large and lightsome ensemble. Even two gifted dogs cannot, as so often is the case, steal the show from the humans.
Solid throughout are Jerry Mitchell’s direction and choreography, whose liveliness makes up for many a lapse in logic, and David Rockwell’s delectable scenery. It proteanly splits up and reconfigures itself, rises from and sinks into the floor, sidles off to or sneaks in from right and left.
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