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Legally Blonde Reviews
#25re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:40pmMargo is a he. Just for future reference.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#26re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:41pmmargo is not a he or a she margo is the god of broadway hehehehe
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
whatever2
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#27re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:42pm
lmao.
like i said, still kind of new.
only made the assumption b/c the avatar seemed quite specific.
"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)
#28re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:44pm
Well, that's because the avatar is of Bette Davis, the star who played Margo Channing in "All About Eve."
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#29re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:45pm
As I said in a previous thread, while I don't find Bundy to be "cold" in the least, she is more brazen than she is bubbly (which is probably an intentional choice to separate herself from the Witherspoon incarnation in the film.)
This character needs to be larger than life, and I don't think Laura has quite hit that yet. If she made things a bit bigger and loosened up a bit she'd wind up with a more winning portrayal (though she's in a good place as it is.)
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
whatever2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
#30re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:46pmoh, please ... THAT much i knew! :P
"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)
#31re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:46pmshe could do with letting her hair down for the role and just having fun with it like a lot of the cast do, but yes i think she is very good and well on her way.
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#32re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:48pmWell, ya seemed a little confused.
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#33re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:48pmMargo is a human being just like anyone else on this board. Give me a break. If reviews are out already, and he's not around to post them, are we supposed to sit around and act like they're not available? No. Don't downgrade yourselves. Every human being on this board is an equal.
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-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
whatever2
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#34re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:53pm
theaterkid: whatever.
hahahahahahaha! that was a double entendre -- get it! 
wannabeafoster: i expressed my opinion, and thought i was careful to calibrate it. i respect margo -- cut my nutz off, why dont you?:P
"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)
#35re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:53pm
Careful Foster, or Margo's gonna come down and smite you with his lightning bolt.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#36re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 6:56pmHe'd do it no matter what.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#37re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:00pm
whatever2...I don't get it.
Shut up, I'm tired.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
whatever2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/06
#38re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:03pmive heard that about you ...
"You, sir, are a moron." (PlayItAgain)
#40re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:08pmAmen
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#41re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:14pm
Variety review-
Omigod, Broadway totally has a new princess. In much the same way Tracy Turnblad sashayed into town in "Hairspray" or the budding "Wicked" witches touched down, Elle Woods beams in from planet Malibu via Harvard Law in "Legally Blonde," bringing girl-empowerment aplenty. While the hit 2001 MGM film was a cute premise in search of a plot, kept afloat by Reese Witherspoon's dazzling charisma, the musical trades up on the original model in both character development and infectious comedy. It may not be bulging with subtext or boast a score for the ages, but this pinksapoppin funhouse delivers exactly what it promises.
Legally Blonde
#42re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:14pm
A positive review from Variety:
Omigod, Broadway totally has a new princess. In much the same way Tracy Turnblad sashayed into town in "Hairspray" or the budding "Wicked" witches touched down, Elle Woods beams in from planet Malibu via Harvard Law in "Legally Blonde," bringing girl-empowerment aplenty. While the hit 2001 MGM film was a cute premise in search of a plot, kept afloat by Reese Witherspoon's dazzling charisma, the musical trades up on the original model in both character development and infectious comedy. It may not be bulging with subtext or boast a score for the ages, but this pinksapoppin funhouse delivers exactly what it promises.
Still, this is not exactly "Cabaret" and without the right guiding hand the show might have evaporated in its own vaporousness. Choreographer-turned-director Jerry Mitchell has done a creditable job of driving this well-oiled machine. Its zippiness in the opening stretch, in particular, is almost dizzying
No musical could entirely hope to sustain that breakneck pace, but, even when its balloon deflates a little, "Legally Blonde" keeps its motor purring. Mitchell directs the show to within an inch of its life, keeping every last member of the large ensemble busy. But while his dance background might be expected to make movement a priority, the director's work with the writer and actors to etch their characters and flesh out their respective journeys keeps the show buoyant.
Of course the most crucial cast element is Elle, and Bundy could hardly be more winning. Decked out in signature pink, she adheres to the mold created by Witherspoon yet makes the role her own with a force-of-nature confidence that's never brash, offsetting Elle's can-do entitlement with touching vulnerability and a genuine warmth that cements her connection to even the skeptics in her radiant orbit. It's perhaps significant that Bundy's first Broadway gig was as the original Amber in "Hairspray," the show "Legally Blonde" most wants to emulate.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117933460.html?categoryid=33&cs=1
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#43re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:17pmThat was a nice review from Variety. I agree with what they said about Kritzer.
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#44re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:23pm
Great review from variety yeeah
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#45re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:27pmI am guessing that most will not come out till later.
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#46re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:31pm
Positive: Theatermania.com
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/10586
"Omigod, you guys. For better or worse, Legally Blonde is a hit! "
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#47re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:33pm
I'd say mixed-to-positive from theatermania.com, some highlights:
Following in the years-old hit footsteps of Hairspray and Wicked, now comes Legally Blonde, a boisterous adaptation of the smart and saucy Reese Witherspoon chick-flick. The show, which marks the directing debut of veteran choreographer Jerry Mitchell, is as meticulously groomed as its level-headed-despite-being-blonde protagonist Elle Woods, who is played just about perfectly by Laura Bell Bundy (who starred in both Hairspray and Wicked).
Indeed, it's frequently difficult to enhance characterizations when dialogue is being stripped away in favor of giddy song and dance. And there's certainly plenty of that amid David Rockwell's multitudinous California-bright and Harvard-somber sets and Gregg Barnes' costumes, which tend toward many shades of pink when the pink-struck Elle is around.
Still, Legally Blonde may be a case of too many songs and dances. Mitchell's obvious aim, which is to keep things moving quickly past the ticket buyers, results in the kind of perpetual motion machine that eventually turns the musical into a blur of songs. While his dances are unfailingly exuberant (especially the skip-rope "Whipped Into Shape" routine that opens Act II), they are too Toni Basil-Michael Peters video-based to be distinguished.
http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/10586
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#48re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:33pmI would rather a musical not know exactly what it wants to be and have greater parts than the sum than have the entire sum be Legally Blonde! Ugh! I have to severely disagre with the Variety Review and side much more closer to that of Talkin Bway and the A.P.
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#49re: Legally Blonde Reviews
Posted: 4/29/07 at 7:45pm
Although I enjoyed myself, the very positive reviews have me completely baffled. And even the negative reviews seem to be completely missing the flaws I found in the show. Although, I am glad the talkinbroadway review found Orfeh as "hootless" as I did. I'm not sure if it's necessarily her, but that character, which was certainly a highlight in the movie, seems so utterly confused and miscast in the show.
Anyway, I enjoyed myself, but have enjoyed myself more at many things that have gotten much worse reviews. I don't think people can get past the fast paced direction and actually see how uneven and messy the writing is.
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