Legally Blonde Revival

[allthatjazz4]

Posted: 2/4/22 at 8:05pm

With all the recent hype from the muny and just the overall popularity of the Legally Blonde musical do we think a revival is somewhat in the near further. I’d love to see the palace theatre reopen with this!

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 2/4/22 at 8:50pm

Yes. To all of this. I am saying without any knowledge or visuals or whatever… but transfer the London production that Lucy Moss will be directing at Regent’s Park. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/4/22 at 11:42pm

Internet fandom is a tiny bubble (as we saw with Be More Chill and Lightning Thief). Don't read into any of this as legitimate interest in the property from mass audiences who will pay $100+ per ticket. TikTok trends also disappear from memory as quickly as they appeared.

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 12:03am

I want a revival with Bonnie Mulligan.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 12:47am

n2nbaby said: "I want a revival with Bonnie Mulligan."

She'd be a GREAT Paulette. Or even a Vivienne.

[Loopin’theloop]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 7:06am

jacobsnchz14 said: "Yes. To all of this. I am saying without any knowledge or visuals or whatever… but transfer the London production that Lucy Moss will be directing at Regent’s Park."

Has it even opened?

[suzycat]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 8:43am

I would love to see this revived. It’s a beloved, known property and a great musical to boot. 

[Broadway61004]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 8:48am

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "Internet fandom is a tiny bubble (as we saw with Be More Chill and Lightning Thief). Don't read into any of this as legitimate interest in the property from mass audiences who will pay $100+ per ticket. TikTok trends also disappear from memory as quickly as they appeared."

^This exactly. allthatjazz4, obviously I don't mean this directed specifically at you as I have no idea what you'd pay to see it, but the vast majority of the folks on TikTok and elsewhere talking about how much they love it will not be the ones paying $179 for orchestra seats for it.  And unless they find people to regularly buy those seats, the show would never be able to run, no matter how much people online say they love it and want it to.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 11:27am

I think a person of color should star. Like Aisha Jackson… 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 11:33am

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that the show lost money the first time around and, while it had its devout followers, did not run very long.  Why would they revive it.  Maybe the devotees should start a campaign to incent Netflix to produce it.

[alex814]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 1:19pm

Jarethan said: "I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that the show lost money the first time around and, while it had its devout followers, did not run very long. Why would they revive it. Maybe the devotees should start a campaign to incent Netflix to produce it."

This show can work scaled down like the tour and in London. Not to mention a smaller venue than the Palace. This show still has an audience between people who loved the original and new fans discovering it now. The timing would be right with all of this early aughts nostalgia in pop culture.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 3:03pm

Again, it's not a question of if there is general casual interest in the property –– we know there is –– it's a question of if there is interest on the level of 450,000 people paying an average of $100+ over the span of a year. And I seriously doubt there is that kind of interest unless it gets love letters from the critics (and possibly revisions to tighten it up). Especially when people interested in the show could just watch the filmed version on YouTube.

It is almost unheard of for a revival to make a profit when the show flopped originally.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 3:20pm

I’d rather they just release the pro-shot in HD on one of the streaming platforms.

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 3:22pm

If they do a revival, after seeing her perform the role at 54 Below, I’d LOVE to see Carrie St. Louis as Elle. 

[ashley0139]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 3:26pm

I saw it a few times on Broadway, but for a revival they desperately need to cut "Ireland."

[darquegk]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 5:18pm

They wrote a new version of "Ireland" for the tour, the London production and the licensing one. Instead of the joke being that Paulette is dumb, ignorant and vaguely racist in her assumptions about Ireland and Europe at large, the new version paints her as a hopeless romantic who can't help that she grew up trashy and lower-class. It's a huge improvement.

[blaxx]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 7:53pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "n2nbaby said: "I want a revival with Bonnie Mulligan."

She'd be a GREAT Paulette. Or even a Vivienne."

Why not Elle?

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 9:13pm

I just can’t imagine this being revived again on Broadway unless some MAJOR changes are made. Should it happen though, I think the principal cast (as well as some of the featured ensemblists) should be predominantly non-white. 
 

The title will continue raking in tons of dough through licensing rights. 

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 11:18pm

Out of pure curiosity, what changes would you recommend need to be made?

[Valentina3]

Posted: 2/5/22 at 11:37pm

ucjrdude902 said: "Out of pure curiosity, what changes would you recommend need to be made?"

For starters, let Elle Woods become Legally Blonde through her hard work instead of Emmett's character literally shaming her into it while she whines about it. And, this is a just small example of a massive problem with the show, cut out the part where Harvard will let her in because of "love". They took the core feminism almost entirely out of the story. What seemed like something that could actually happen in real life was turned into a parody of a parody. The music is one bop after another but that book ... oy vey.

I personally think there is a very clear built in audience for it. Same people who love SIX would come watch this show if it actually had the backbone which the movie does. 

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 2/7/22 at 8:29am

I love Legally Blonde, but I don't know if changing anything would make a difference. It's not in need of a revisal

Updated On: 2/7/22 at 08:29 AM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 2/7/22 at 8:57am

Valentina3 said: "For starters, let Elle Woods become Legally Blonde through her hard work instead of Emmett's character literally shaming her into it while she whines about it. And, this is a just small example of a massive problem with the show, cut out the part where Harvard will let her in because of "love". They took the core feminism almost entirely out of the story. What seemed like something that could actually happen in real life was turned into a parody of a parody. The music is one bop after another but that book ... oy vey.

I personally think there is a very clear built in audience for it. Same people who love SIX would come watch this show if it actually had the backbone which the movie does."

Yes, while I loved a lot of things about the show, I hated that they took away Elle's own agency in order to beef up Emmett as well as the romance aspect, which was barely there in the movie because the graduation ending with the "what happened later" text blocks was tacked on last minute by the studio. I also hated "Blood in the Water," as it not only makes Callahan an obvious sleaze ball right from the start, but also sound more like a Lionel Hutz ambulance chaser than a professor at one of the most prestigious law schools in the country. Yes, many people in the audience had probably seen the movie, but that doesn't mean you needed to have the sexual harasser give his hand away in his first song singing about taking the client who will "get you high and laid."

The tour did amazingly well. I know a few people who were on it who said they were initially worried about the pay cuts, as it was still in the earlier days of the SET agreement and no one knew how well it would do, but then overall ended up making more than they would have by being paid minimum on the full Production Contract thanks to the overage shares they got.

[allthatjazz4]

Posted: 7/30/22 at 8:59am

After seeing the muny production this week I’ve decided that we need a revival. And Kyla Stone must star as Elle Woods. Everything about her Elle is perfection and necessary. Hopefully this happens soon.

 

[InTheKnowEvenIfYouDontBelieve]

Posted: 7/30/22 at 9:20am

There are no active plans for a Broadway revival right now unfortunately 

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 7/30/22 at 11:18am

Updated On: 7/30/22 at 11:18 AM