Posted: 7/9/18 at 5:05pm
http://blondeontour.com/
Well this is happening. It looks...easy to travel
Posted: 7/9/18 at 5:32pm
I was so confused about the "one night preview" in NJ, and I found this:
https://www.rvccarts.org/18/18Events/Mainstage/171006LegallyBlondeTheMusical.html
Tours do a "preview" at a community college? Seems super weird.
Posted: 7/9/18 at 5:50pm
Well, that was last year before it headed to Asia(12/17). I can't imagine the quality of any tour with that kind of schedule. Certainly not Equity.
Posted: 7/9/18 at 5:56pm
This tour is the current non-equity Asia tour of Legally Blonde coming back for a US leg.
Big League Productions has been launching its non-holiday tours at the Theater at Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, NJ, about an hour outside of NYC. They teched/launched this tour there last October, with one public performance, mostly for family/friends, and then it was packed and shipped to Asia for this year. They are shipping it back for next season. The website was partially updated for next year, and partially still reflects the original text that was there when the tour launched.
It is non-equity, with most of the physical scenic replaced with LED screens. Simple for a tour that plays almost entirely one-nighters
Posted: 7/9/18 at 6:03pm
Yeah is common for a lot of tours. I mean, a lot of major tours play the Proctors Theater in Schenectady as a "preview" to tech and whatnot. It's a great theater.
Posted: 7/9/18 at 6:13pm
Without going into full detail, New York State passed tax legislation about 2 years ago to provide tax credits to tour launching at the touring houses upstate, which is why Schenectady, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Elmira, Binghamton and West Point have all hosted one or several tech processes the past few years.
Posted: 7/10/18 at 11:07am
Posted: 7/10/18 at 1:16pm
1) the screens in this make Mean Girls look restrained
2) why does Paulette look like a hooker
3) those dancer boys tho. How you doin?
