Things better left unsaid

Legally Blonde to Close on Broadway Oct. 19

By Adam Hetrick
September 24, 2008

The Broadway production of Legally Blonde, the musical about a valley girl with Harvard ambitions that is based on the film of the same name, will play its final performance at the Palace Theatre Oct. 19.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell, Legally Blonde officially opened at the Palace April 29, 2007. The production will have played 595 regular performances and 30 previews when it concludes Oct. 19.

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Bonds, Johnson, McLean, Lewis and Land Join Cast of Legally Blonde National Tour

By Adam Hetrick
August 6, 2008

Casting is now complete for the national tour of Legally Blonde: The Musical, which officially launches in Providence, RI, Sept. 21.

As previously reported, Becky Gulsvig — who understudied Tony-nominated actress Laura Bell Bundy as the musical's pink-clad heroine, Elle Woods, on Broadway — will head the cast of the national tour as the valley girl with Harvard ambitions.

Gulsvig will be joined by D.B. Bonds as Emmett, Natalie Joy Johnson as Paulette, Jeff McLean as Warner, Megan Lewis as Vivienne, Coleen Sexton as Brooke, Ken Land as Professor Callahan, Cortney Wolfson as Serena, Rhiannon Hansen as Margot, Crystal Joy as Pilar and Gretchen Burghart as Enid.

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Rockwell and Hart to Join Broadway's Legally Blonde Cast

By Adam Hetrick
April 30, 2008

Broadway's Legally Blonde will welcome two new cast members at the Palace Theatre in May.

Kate Rockwell — of "Grease: You're the One That I Want" fame — Rent's Nicolette Hart are set to join the company as Margot and Brooke Wyndham, respectively.

Hart will begin performances May 7. Legally Blonde cast member Nikki Snelson, who originally portrayed Brooke Wyndham, has left the production to star as Cassie in the national tour of A Chorus Line. Rockwell, who succeeds Haven Burton in the role of sorority sister Margot, begins performances May 14.

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So...

The question becomes... if I see The Receptionist, and the Pinter play Homecoming, along with a performance of Young Frankenstein, Xanadu, and maybe Legally Blonde... where does the space for another performance of Wicked (with Block/Ashford) appear?

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So the Drama Desk Awards have been handed out...

YaY! to Company for the Lead Actor prize for Raul Esparza, Orchestrations to Mary-Mitchell Campbell, and top prize for the Best Revival of a Musical. :)

It was interesting to note that the original and current orchestrators of Company (Jonathon Tunick and Mary-Mitchell Campbell) shared the prize. :) That, and the two revival Roberts -- Raul Esparza (2006) and Boyd Gaines (1995) -- were taking home awards :)

Utopia and Spring Awakening Win Top Honors at Drama Desk Awards
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From Variety:

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117933460.html?categoryid=1265&cs=1

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