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Post by Tanith Messenger on Aug 28, 2010 7:27:49 GMT
Stephen Webb will join the cast from 25th October playing the part of Lowell.
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Post by Eunice and Roísín on Sept 16, 2010 13:56:30 GMT
We had a theatre break in London last week We went to see Legally Blonde - we wanted to see it before cast change as we know some of the cast from other shows. Matthew McKenna, from WWRY, was understudying Emmett, one of the lead roles & he's leaving next month. He was in the show a lot & was great. We loved the show - it was lots of fun, girlie & pink. The two dogs were very cute, especially the chihuahua, but we had to stretch up to see them as we were on the front row & the stage was very high, but the seats were cheap so we can't complain. We were there when the tube strike was on so we thought we'd have to travel by bus but there were some trains running though some of the lines, some stations & some booking offices were closed, but we managed ok.
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Post by Eunice and Roísín on Nov 17, 2010 15:32:31 GMT
We have been to see Stephen in Legally Blonde We couldn't get to the theatre in time to get cheap seats so we went to Leicester Square ticket booths & at the third attempt we got some good seats near the front & they were a bit cheaper than from the theatre. It was great to see Stephen again & he played lots of different roles. Most of the lead roles were played by different people this time as some have left or were on holiday last time. Denise Van Outen was very good & hardly recognisable. We know quite a few of the guys from other shows. It was nice to meet Alex Gaumond at last. He used to be Galileo on the Rock You tour but he never came out after the matinees. Leicester Square tube station was closed due to overcrowding (they did that to us last time at Oxford Circus) so we walked to Covent Garden which was ok but they don't have any escalators. Roisin didn't want to use the lift so we went down the emergency stairs which other people were using. It was a spiral staircase & it seemed never ending. When we got to the bottom I saw that there were 193 steps & my legs have been aching ever since!! We missed the train we wanted & had to wait nearly an hour for the next. That left London 25 minutes late so it was the early hours of Sunday when we got home, but we still had a great day
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Post by Tanith Messenger on Mar 17, 2011 16:10:48 GMT
Lee Mead Plays Legally Blonde Emmett from June.... Lee Mead will join the cast of the Whatsonstage.com and Olivier Award-winning musical Legally Blonde taking over as Emmett Forrest from Alex Gaumond in mid-June. Gaumond, who has played the role since the show's West End premiere in January 2010, extends his engagement until 18 June 2011. Mead, who came to prominence winning the BBC's reality casting show, Any Dream Will Do, and took the lead in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Adelphi Theatre from 2007 to early 2009, played Fiyero in Wicked until early last month. His previous theatre credits include Lord Arthur Savile in Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime on national tour, The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre and the UK tours of both Miss Saigon and Tommy. Mead joins the West End cast of Susan McFadden as Elle Woods, Carley Stenson as Margot, Nicola Brazil as Serena, Siobhan Dillon as Vivienne and Peter Davison as Professor Callahan. Denise Van Outen, who Mead married in April 2009 currently stars as beautician Paulette, however it is not expected they will appear in the show at the same time. Legally Blonde The Musical picked up four gongs at the 2011 Whatsonstage.com Awards, including Best New Musical. Nominated for five Olivier Awards it went on to win Best New Musical, the Best Actress in a Musical prize for Sheridan Smith and Best Supporting Role in a Musical for co-star Jill Halfpenny. Based on the 2001 Hollywood film in which Reese Witherspoon played California sorority girl Elle Woods, the show is directed by Tony Award-winning and Olivier Award-nominated choreographer Jerry Mitchell. Having opened on Broadway in 2007 the musical comedy opened at the Savoy Theatre on 13 January 2010 (previews from 5 December 2009) where it is currently booking until 31 March 2012. It was announced earlier this week that the show will embark on a UK tour from Liverpool Empire where it will run from 8 to 16 July 2011. Further casting and full tour dates are still to be announced. Legally Blonde has music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach, set design by David Rockwell, costume design by Gregg Barnes, lighting design by Kenneth Posner and Paul Miller, sound design by ACME Sound Partners and orchestrations by Christopher Jahnke. It's produced in the West End by Sonia Friedman Productions, Robert G Bartner, Ambassador Theatre Group, Bud Martin, Adam Zotovich, Jamie Hendry Productions, Matthew Byam Shaw and Act Productions. - by Andrew Girvan © www.whatsonstage.com
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Post by Chrissi on Mar 22, 2011 20:55:46 GMT
Looking forward to it.
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Post by Eunice and Roísín on Jul 28, 2011 13:34:27 GMT
We went to London on the 9th to see Legally Blonde & got off to a bad start. We decided to go a bit later than usual to get the fast train but when we got to the station there was a horrendous queue as everyone was going to York races. There was only one person on "tickets for today", one of the ticket machines wasn't working & there were big queues for the other two. We got to the train just as the whistle was being blown so we weren't too pleased We had to wait half an hour for the next one which stopped everywhere & we didn't have time to go to Leicester Square to look for cheaper theatre tickets. So we decided to walk from Holborn down Kingsway which was good as there weren't too many people about & we got to the theatre in good time. We were surprised they still had day seats left for £25 (they didn't do them when we've been before). We couldn't sit in the stalls but got front row of the dress circle which were great. It was Susan McFadden's last day as Elle. We hadn't seen her play the role before & she was great. Also it was lovely, of course, to see Lee as Emmett & he was brilliant. It was also lovely to see Stephen Webb again who was playing a main role - the UPS guy. He was funny & brilliant too. It was a great show & they did funny things as it was a "muck up " matinee ;D ;D The two people that we particularly wanted to talk to, Lee & Stephen, didn't come out of the stage door. We heard they'd gone out a different way so we waited a while & Adam Booth (who we'd seen the previous week in Footloose) appeared. He was going to watch the evening show. Then Lee & Stephen came back. They were lovely & very chatty, then the stage door man called them in, but it was nice to be able to have a chat with them.
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Post by Chrissi on Jul 31, 2011 8:51:48 GMT
Glad you enjoyed Legally Blonde ladies A great show.
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Post by Eunice and Roísín on Aug 4, 2011 20:29:34 GMT
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Post by tjacks55 on Oct 20, 2011 12:15:44 GMT
I didn't think that I was going to like Legally Blonde, but I loved it. I thought it was better than the film! I saw it when Sheridan Smith was Elle.
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