NEW PROMO: MTV's Search For The New Elle Woods!

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 6:45pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQhSr9aYnbY

Honestly, I just don't understand you if you're not at least slightly excited for this.

[mateo]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 6:49pm

"I feel awesome, blossom, fabulous, fantastic!"

Hairspray Movie fans:

Is that not Cassie Silva aka Brenda?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx7Yrag1FHY

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 6:52pm

I think it is her! I can't wait to see who wins!

[mateo]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 6:53pm

I think so too. I hope she wins!

[Mealz1042]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 6:57pm

This looks like an odd mix between the bachelor and american idol but with 3 simons... and why halie duff? Granted, I'll still probably watch it but idk looks VERY cliche.

[ruprecht]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:02pm

Honestly, it looks boring and that's worse than any other criticism I can think of.

[splendoris]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:04pm

Hayley Duff is so annoying. I kind of wanted to smack her when she says "none of you have ever been on Broadway".

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:08pm

Wait? Was that Seth being snarky? It went by so fast I wasn't sure. I need to go back and watch it again

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:12pm

Yup, that was Seth.
That very first girl they showed talking, can't remember what she said, looked just like Kristen Bell.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:14pm

I went back and watched it again. I may have to watch this if he's going to be there. I'd like to see him be something other than goofy for a change. Though I do love his goofiness - I'd just like to see what he's like when he's actually working.

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:15pm

It looks so ridiculous that I think I may actually love it. It's just so MTV melodrama.

[MerMaggieGalinda]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:18pm

I would like to think that I wouldn't watch this but I totally am going to.

[James885]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:26pm

It looks like a very run-of-the-mill, cookie-cutter reality show. The usual group arguments, dramatic breakdowns, etc. I'll probably watch at least the first couple episodes, although I don't know how long I'll be able to endure Haylie Duff.

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:28pm

I'll watch, but will be disgusted. The girls look like bitches

[yodamarie78]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:41pm

That looks like much more fun than the Grease reality show.

Marshmallow, your avatar is awesome!

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:53pm

Remember when Cassie was on Clean House? I do!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 7:57pm

Tivo will catch each and every episode.

Unlike Wanna Be A Foster -- I fully embrace reality television as its very awfulness.

Connosieur of pop culture? You betcha!

Now... time to text Chelsea Handler and see what we can mix with Grey Goose.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:17pm

Woah! Chelsea is the god of Late Night.

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:22pm

Why do I recognize that third judge?
I recognized Bernie Telsey and Jerry Mitchell, but who was the third guy? (The young one?)

Also- no female judge to cast Elle Woods?
Mistake.

I've never seen Seth so serious. It was surprisingly nice. Rock on Rudetsky!

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:23pm

Paul Canaan (Ensemble), Heather Hach (Book).

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:34pm

Who is Bernie Telsey?

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:53pm

BERNIE TELSEY graduated from New York University in 1981 with a degree in Theater Administration and Acting. In 1983, he co-founded MCC Theater, a non-profit Off-Broadway theater company. They have produced such plays as Bryony Lavery's Frozen (4 Tony nominations including Best Play, and one award for Best Featured Actor), Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone (4 OBIE Awards), Margaret Edson's Wit (1999 Pulitzer Prize, Drama Desk Award), Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living (2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Alan Bowne's Beruit, Peter Hedges' Good As New (OBIE Award), Russell Lee's Nixon's Nixon (OBIE Award), and Neil Labute's The Distance From Here, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig, and Some Girls. Simultaneously, Telsey began working at Simon & Kumin Casting as an assistant, and then as a casting director at Risa Bramon & Billy Hopkins Casting. He opened his own casting office in 1988. Telsey + Company, formerly Bernard Telsey Casting, is responsible for many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions that include The Wedding Singer, Company, Grey Gardens, The Color Purple, Sweeney Todd, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, Legally Blonde, In the Heights, The Rocky Horror Show, The Fantasticks, The Drowsy Chaperone, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Frozen, High Fidelity, Anna in the Tropics, La Boheme, Moon for the Misbegotten, Aida, Death of a Salesman, Electra, De La Guarda, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Capeman, Wit, and Food Chain. Telsey + Company has also cast for many of the leading New York non-profit theater companies such as MCC Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Signature Theatre, Drama Dept. and New York Theatre Workshop. Regionally, they have cast for The Goodman Theatre, The Hartford Stage Company, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and La Jolla Playhouse. They also cast Peter Sellars' international productions of Peony Pavilion, The Merchant of Venice and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky. Some film credits include Across The Universe, Ira & Abby, Then She Found Me, Keane, Rent, Dan in Real Life, Pieces of April, Camp, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector, and The Grey Zone. Some television credits include HBO'S Undefeated, the New York Casting of Ugly Betty, MTV's The Game Killers, Whoopi (the series), and many commercials.

Updated On: 5/12/08 at 08:53 PM

[ahmelie]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 8:54pm

God. I'm so excited for this I could melt.

And yes, I am their target audience.

[bestinshow2]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 9:09pm

Yay for Seth being on tv!

[broadwayfan7]

Posted: 5/12/08 at 9:15pm

I am definitely going to watch it! So excited!