Review LEGALLY BLONDE at the 5th Ave

Here's my review...
https://seattle.broadwayworld.com/article/BWW_Reviews_LEGALLY_BLONDE_at_The_5th_Avenue_Theatre_20100226

What did you think of the show?

I saw Rhiannon Hansen's Elle and am glad I did. While her singing and dancing were average, her personality was infectious. My biggest complaint is that the tour sets are severely scaled down vs. Broadway. Luckily I have the MTV performance saved to enjoy that far superior staging. I like Natalie Joy Johnson's Paulette and DB Sweeney's Emmett much more than Orfeh and Borlem respectively, on Broadway.

Also, the 5th needs to fix their sound system.

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Having seen the MTV version a couple of times, I agree that I missed the scaffolding/larger sets used for the beginning and end of Act 1. However, other than those two numbers, most sets/staging looked like it matched PRETTY close.

I thought Emmit and Paulette were 100% better and more lovable in Seattle than Broadway.

I forgot Rhiannon Hansen was Elle's understudy. She was pretty good as Margot (albeit not as good as Ashford), and I can imagine (since she was in that MTV reality show) she is a pretty decent Elle. To me Gulsvig doesn't look OR feel the part at all, it seems like a mismatch.

As for the 5th's soundsystem - I felt that the show I saw had better acoustics than the Saturday night showing of Chicago. I couldn't pick up on most of the lyrics in "All That Jazz."

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