Legally Blonde - The Musical

I was backstage for opening night of Legally Blonde - The Musical. They had a cast party after the show.

The cast were a bunch of energetic young adults. I came in contact with 4 female cast members briefly: Coleen Sexton who plays the character Brooke asked where she could get a salad, (LOL), Rhiannon Hansen who plays the character Margot was down to earth enough to say hi, Cortney Wolfson who plays the character Serena talked about parking issues. I found it interesting that Becky Gulsvig who plays the character Elle Woods rode her bike back and forth from the hotel to backstage - she would wait way after most of the cast members already left after the show for a male cast member who brought his bike too; she’d wave bye to the few of us still remaining backstage.

I liked the 2 movies a bit more, but movies are obviously different from musicals. The songs were ok, but not as memorable as other musicals. You know when you hear a song and it bugs cause it repeats - the song “Omigod You Guys” was one of those - ahh turn it off.

I did view the Broadway special that was broadcasted on MTV and it was a lot better than the current US National Tour, but it’s because it was 3 performances edited together and featured the Original Broadway Cast.

Well, what’s good about this musical is that it brings the musical genre to the younger MTV generation. It was rather ironic that in one of the last scenes, there were actual gay male cast members playing gay characters in a courtroom; this gave the audience a good chuckle.

Ahh..maybe this musical will grow on me, as I’ll have the opportunity to be backstage again.

(Update: the 2nd time around was enjoyable and adds as a good compliment to fans of the original movies).