Original Cast List of LEGALLY BLONDE..

I found an old article that I saved a while back on who was mentioned for the cast during a workshop of LEGALLY BLONDE...was kind of cool to see who is not with the company currently and who still is:

The latest reading featured Laura Bell Bundy (Elle Woods), Scott Bakula (Professor Callahan), Rachel Dratch (Paulette), Christian Borle (Emmett), Richard Blake (Warner), Kate Shindle (Vivien), Nikki Snelson (Brook Wyndam), Leslie Kritzer (Serena), Farah Alvin (Margot), Pearl Sun (Pilar), Andy Karl (Kyle), Aaron Lohr, Kate Wetherhead, Donna Vivino, Debra Wiseman, Kevin Pariseau, Rashad Naylor, Julie Garnye, Eisa Davis, T.J. Maddox, Caesar Samayoa.

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I'm glad they went against having Rachel Dratch. I mean, I like her and all, but I don't know if I could deal with her for 2 hours. Besides the fact that the music would have been much less effective for Paulette. Orfeh also better fits my thoughts of Paulette, and she deserves a good role.

Rachel Dratch was AMAZING as Paulette. I mean, she doesn't have a great singing voice, but she was ridiculously funny. Yeah, a lot of it was schtick, but it completely worked. If only they could combine Orfeh's vocal chops with Rachel's comedic chops, they'd have the best Paulette ever.

(Or, on second thought... can Jennifer Coolidge sing?)

~JJJ

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In Legally Blonde, the movie was Kyle, the dorky guy that helps Elle?

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surprise, surprise, yet another thinly veiled dig at Orfeh. JJ, did you miss the review that compared Orfeh to Fran Drescher? Guess some would disagree with you, again.

No, in the movie version of LEGALLY BLONDE. There's a dorky guy who in the court-room scene shows the law book to Callahan. His name in the movie was David. Dorky Dave, is what he's called in the credits. He's the guy who the female professor grills about the quote on the board on Elle's first day of class.

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I am pretty sure he is one of the people helping on the case that elle befriends.

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He's played by Noah Weisberg in the show. The guy who played Dorky David was Oz Perkins in the movie.


To me, an important role in a show is less effective if the person is not equally balanced between vocals and acting, which Rachel Dratch was not. Orfeh deserves a role where she can show her talent.

Updated On: 2/19/07 at 12:12 AM

Noah Weisberg actually plays a character named Aaron in the show, who gets the "dorky" intro that Dave got in the movie, but he's not exactly the same character. (For instance, in the movie, Elle helps Dave get a date with a cute girl by pretending to have had her heart broken by him... that doesn't happen in the musical.)

Also, ruprecht, for heaven's sake, I'm not out of my mind. I saw Rachel Dratch and liked her; you didn't see her and you don't like her. Live and let live, huh?

~JJJ

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"Noah Weisberg actually plays a character named Aaron in the show, who gets the "dorky" intro that Dave got in the movie, but he's not exactly the same character. (For instance, in the movie, Elle helps Dave get a date with a cute girl by pretending to have had her heart broken by him... that doesn't happen in the musical.) "

Yeah, they took the name of the aggorant guy from the movie who says he's a genius and that Stephen Hawking stole his brief history of time from his fourth grade term-paper and combined him with Dave.

:-]

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