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Setting the Stage, Offstage

Setting the Stage, Offstage
By PENELOPE GREEN

URSULA the sea witch idolizes Leona Helmsley, Jerry Falwell and Gloria Swanson, which is why their pictures are part of a collage hanging in Sherie Rene Scott’s dressing room at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. Like many stage actors, Ms. Scott, who plays Ursula in the Disney play “The Little Mermaid,” uses her dressing room to get herself in the mood of her character. Unlike most Broadway actors, however, Ms. Scott has scored a dressing room the size of a Manhattan one-bedroom, and it comes with features: French doors opening onto the street and a pink bathtub (put there for Elizabeth Taylor in 1983, when she was in “Private Lives”).

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So I was watching the MTV Legally Blonde performance this weekend and pretty much ignoring LBB on stage whenever there were other performers around. :)

Annaleigh Ashford originated the role of Margot in Legally Blonde and understudied the role of Elle Woods. She's currently at the Gershwin Theatre being very Good as Glinda in Wicked.

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For shonn and all those that might have gotten the free download from itunes this week. :)

The opening song (Oh My God You Guys!) has undergone quite a few changes since the first demo cuts (the three track files). :)

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The nominations are out...

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( My mumbles )

Mr Brantley reviews Legally Blonde --

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/theater/reviews/30blon.html
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