Finally saw Bailey in LB tonight — Page 2

I thought Ven was awful, and my audience seemed to agree.

JohnnyJon/Finney2,

Ruprecht is hardly the only one with bad things to say about Ven. I've had a lot of friends who've seen the show in the past few weeks, and literally not a single one of them have anything good to say about him, except in regards to his body.

As I said, I haven't seen him yet, so I can't speak from personal experience, but I've heard A LOT of bad things.

I'll stay optimistic though...hope for the best, when I do eventually get around to checking him out.

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Sorry to not have too much experience about all the new people/understudies/etc. in Legally BLonde, but to this:

"As bad as the description of Christian "Phoning it in" (I'm assuming he was having an off night) is, it could have been far worse, need i remind you all of Steve Blanchard as the beast near the end of his very very long run "

SOOOOOOO True! Steve Blanchard in the last years was pretty awful...He simply was just not worth even watching and plain old boring or it was too over-animated; his singing was not nearly as good as his understudies (most notably for me William Michals if memory serves right).

Ven er I mean Johnny, I'm only responding because you chose to single me out of all the literally dozens of posters who think "ven" is not that great in LB. I was actually a bit nicer about him than most but it's almost a unanimous feeling. Maybe less time reverse shilling would be a good idea.

Orfeh is simply fantastic. I've seen the show only three times; the first two times when the show first came out, and again a few weeks ago. She was just as fantastic a few weeks ago as she was in the beginning of the show. I really REALLY respect an actor that knows that there are audience members traveling from all over the country to see the show, and they make sure to give it their all. Thats what I loved about LBB, and thats what I love about Orfeh. I'm going to have to agree about the Christian Borle comment. A few weeks ago when I saw him...he didn't have nearly as much fire as I remember in the beginning of his run. I mean...I can't say I was horribly insulted since I had seen the show twice already, but what about the people the young kids seeing it for the first time? Using all their allowance money just to see him perform! (lol..i exaggerate) But whatever. Who knows, maybe he was depressed or sick or something...I won't judge too harshly!

Oh yeah, and I too was shocked at how fantastic Bailey was. I always scoffed when watching the show and heard he say that the role of Elle Woods was MEANT for her. but....maybe she was right. lol. She really was somewhat sensational.

And I have fantastic relative pitch and my sister best friend has perfect pitch, so when we saw the show it was somewhat jarring hearing So Much Better in the different key, I must say. But alas, she was great.

I saw LB tonight. I was kinda expecting Bailey to suck, but she really impressed me. She is the perfect replacement for Laura Bell, although certain parts, I thought I was watching Laura Bell.

During Whipped into Shape, one of the dancers messed up, and I couldn't see her face, but I have a feeling it was Autumn because of her size.

If CHristian Borle is phoning it in, just because Laura is gone, that is completely unprofessional and I hope that's not the reason . An actor should never let personal issues interfere with his performance.

The UPS guy is essentially scripted to receive large cheers. He gets his own entrance music and struts across the stage to it...any audience would cheer for that. That being said, I haven't heard anything good about Ven, but I'll reserve judgment for when I finally see him. I will say that i don't think anyone will ever come close to Andy Karl, but I'm biased.

As far as Matthew Risch as Warner, I was impressed by him. Vocally, he sounds a lot like Richard which isn't something I expected and I enjoyed his take on Warner, but I don't think he has enough arrogance in places and of course, RIchard looks the part more so. Once again, I'm biased :-P

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They no longer use the "MTV Winner" thing, thank goodness. It looks just like it used to (and should look) with Bailey's name. I also like that Autumn is given no special recognition in the Playbill, and is listed with the other ensemble members.

The color picture that person made could very easily be done in black and white, by the way. Alternatively, they could just stick Bailey's head on the existing logo.

It really doesn't matter, it just matters that Orfeh makes the song a million times better than it could be and like another poster said, get's laughs where there really shouldn't be any. I've heard this past weekend has been understudy central. I was thinking of going to the matinee but I'm worried it will be a repeat of yesterday.