Give Legally Blonde A Tony!!! — Page 2

I did see the show and thought Orfeh was funny, but not anywhere as great as Mary Louise Wilson or Barbara Walsh. Or Karen Ziemba or Rebecca Luker for that matter.

~Steven

I saw it and hands down will give it the worst adaption of a movie for Broadway.

All the quirkiness and fun of the movie is missing and homogenized in this dreadful musical adapation.

Aristotle's first law of theatre is that you must care for the main character.

In the musical, you don't care a lick for Elle Woods. She is vapid and bland. In the movie, you realize there is a real person under that blonde and supposedly vapid exterior. That person is quirky, vibrant, intelligent and her own person and you fall in love with her. The musical totally misses the point and glosses over the carefully built quirky exposition of the movie with fast paced awful musical material, fast paced choreography and gimmicry. That is what makes the movie so good and the musical so awful.

Jerry Mitchell is a great choreographer but has yet to understand the subtleties of truly directing a great or even good Broadway musical. I hope he learns how soon because if he does, when he does, he will give us a great new Broadway Musical. Here he has given us one that is full of gimmicks and made the pace fast so you won't realize what's missing in the mix.

The musical is a vapid glossification that cheapens the material it was based on. It is designed to make a buck and has absolutely no heart. Christian Borle is wasted. Laura Bell Bundy can't rise above that material.

Your welcome. And thanks for acknowledging my heartfelt and strong sentiment.

no.

No I'm opinionated, knowledgeable and intelligently judgemental. I'm sure that is what you meant.

and if a cow had balls, it would be a bull.

"You can't change the facts and no matter how many times some of you say it, Orfeh is and will forever be, a Tony nominee and most likely have more award nominations in her future. You all, for your own sanity, should make peace with that now."

Umm? Believe it or not my life doesn't revolve around the Tonys and it's ok by me that she got the nomination. But I didn't get ANYTHING from her performance. You did. People obviously agree with you. But I also have the right to say that I got nothing out of her performance. Because I didn't. Big deal - plenty of people say they thought Aaron Lazar in Les Mis was nothing and I thought he was brilliant. They are opinions. It's ok to have different ones, and it is certainly ok for me to say that I felt she didn't deserve her nomination. There is no reason to get so offended when we say we didn't feel she deserved the nomination. I disagreed with many of the Tony nominations this year but that doesn't make me an angsty teen who is jealous...or something?


Brave Sir Robin, I understand that his thread was to support Legally Blonde, but it's a public message board and there will always be people who bring up a debate. Believe you me goldenboy and I are not the only ones who thought Legally Blonde was not worth the money.

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Good point, Orfeh looked anything but bitter last night.

Anna, oddly enough, I LOVE Aaron Lazar, think he's a star in the making, despise almost everything about Blonde, so we agree on many points, i'm simply sick of everyone avoiding the facts and constantly wanting to bash, or cry foul over Orfeh's nod. She is the one saving grace of an otherwise waste of space at the Palace and almost all the people whose opinions actually "count" (critics, nominators, etc) were like minded. That's all, not trying to stop you from having an opinion, I'm simply pointing out that it's tedious to rehash.

Well that makes sense FosterChild, but no offense your post came across as though we were dumb to mention it. I really just did not enjoy Legally Blonde and I am very surprised it got as many nominations as it did. I'm not trying to say it's an awful thing, good for them. But to me, there was no one in the show that stood out.
Of course, it could have been the material of the show itself...either way I'm not trying to point out what critics have said or "cry foul" as you mentioned, and I don't think goldenboy is either. We're just saying.

Good of you to clear that all up though.

On that note. It is good to meet another Aaron fan.

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I never thought I was too old....for anything in life but I know I am... Spring Awakening was UGH!!!. give me anything but that crap and mary poppins (how boring) I yawned all through it. finally my husband switched to the discovery channel until they were done... fantasia?? what was that about. and not one person can say I am wrong about any of this because now I have asked a young friend of mine (female aged 26) and she fully agreed.

It's strange that you feel you can decide that people are lying about seeing the show..

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JJJ- you are my new hero

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Sondheim Geek--

I'm somebody's hero? On THIS board, no less? Ahaha, win. :)

~JJJ

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