Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
#1Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 6:47pm
Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
They are both about naive and gullible females trying to show the world who they really are. Any body else see any similarities?
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#2re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 6:51pmI hope not. I love the story of Sweet Charity. The story could happen. Legally Blonde is more like a satire.
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#2re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 6:52pm
no, not really.
Elle is a spoiled rich girl who only goes to Harvard for a boy, and then decides to stay, only to keep an eye on him.
Charity is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, who can't get a break because of what she does for a living.
I understand how you can make a connection, (they both want love , but can't attain it) but these ladies come from completely different worlds and have no sensibilities in common at all.
Elle Woods is more like Galinda.
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#3re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 6:56pmAlso, Elle grows and learns from her experiences. Charity is doomed to repeat them endlessly.
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#4re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 6:56pm
Mmmmm, Elle Woods is like Galinda? Say what?
I don't find any connections there either.
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#5re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 7:48pmI agree, muscle. Elle is like Glinda?....how?
#6re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 8:28pmIt's more like The Unsinkable Molly Brown for a new generation. Complete with the fish out of water having to prove herself, to a wobbly middle of the road vehicle that will be popular but not have a shelf life.
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#7re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 8:32pm
Questions of quality of staging or music aside--I see no real similarity. One is a woman, sligthly past her prime, who is continually thwarted by life and disappointed--albeit she manages to make her way through and Survive.
Blonde is about a young woman proving herself to absolutely fantasitc, can't be argued results
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#8re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 10:12pmThey both played the Palace!
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#9re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/4/07 at 11:54pmI think what the poster ment by saying that she is like Glinda is this. They are both two blond chicks who ALWAYS get thier way.
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#10re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 1:17amI think you just made Bob Fosse cry.
"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
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#11re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 1:21am
SWEET CHARITY is built to last.
LEGALLY BLONDE will have a healthy run, but i cant imagine a LEGALLY BLONDE revival in the next century.
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#12re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 1:31amI think Legally Blonde will end up kind of like The Wedding Singer. It will have a bunch of groupie fans a few year run (which Wedding Singer did not have) and then it will never be revived again. I can't see the Red Bull, JetBlue, UPS, Tiffanys product placement working in the next fifty years.
#13re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 9:07am
No. Sweet Charity, aside from its book problems, has one of the finest musical comedy scores ever crafted and at its helm was Bob Fosse. Jerry Mitchell, while being talented, is nowhere near the brilliance of that man.
And it also starred Gwen Verdon. Laura Bell Bundy can't really hold a candle to her either.
#14re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 10:00amGlinda doesn’t really get her way though. She loses her best friend and the guy she loves. She has the power she always wanted, but at a great cost. Elle finds true love and wins the respect of her classmates.
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#15re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 10:03amSweet Charity has good music and intelligent lyrics, so I hope not.
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#16re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 11:59am
Sweet Charity's story is bittersweet. Legally Blonde is so hooped on RedBull, that it floated up past Tommy Tune's field of vision a few months ago.
So no.
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#17re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 3:34pm
Sweet Charity has good music and intelligent lyrics, so I hope not.
Thank you, Tom! 
No, I really don't see how a show whose opening act is called "Ohmigod" could be compared with the fantastic and brilliant Bob Fosse/Gwen Verdon/Cy Coleman/Dorothy Fields/Neil Simon collaboration that is SWEET CHARITY.
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#18re: Is Legally Blonde the Sweet Charity for a new generation?
Posted: 5/5/07 at 4:26pm
Yes, it is, in a way.
Like Sweet Charity, Legally Blonde is bound to have a shelf-life for many years to come. I'm sure it'll end up being one of the hottest prospects on the high school/college/regional circuit. It's got a large cast, an upbeat score, and is an overall crowd pleaser. It's a quintesstential story of girl power - even the bimbo can get to Harvard. Positive morals for any high school.
In a way, Sweet Charity is satire, as well. Moreso than Blonde.
BTW - Ray, it's "Omigod," not "Ohmigod."
Updated On: 5/5/07 at 04:26 PM
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