The run closed October 19, 2008
- Opened
- April 29, 2007
- Closed
- October 19, 2008
- Performances
- 595
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 395 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and record a performance count, this is the 37th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it45 named
Paul Canaan
Chico
Chloe
Beth Curry
Amber Efe
Gaelen Gilliland
Jason Gillman
Becky Gulsvig
Rod Harrelson
Manuel Herrera
Matthew Risch
Jason Patrick Sands
Noah Weisberg
Kate Wetherhead
Bailey Hanks
Barry Anderson
Nathan Balser
Haven Burton
Ven Daniel
Stephanie Fittro
Josh Franklin
Asmeret Ghebremichael
Nicolette Hart
Autumn Hurlbert
Cara Massey
Emily Padgett
Dani Spieler
Lucia Spina
Casey Leigh Thompson
Bryan West
15 of these 45 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 30 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters12 roles recorded
Sheridan Smith Elle Woods
Alex Gaumond Emmett Forrest
Jill Halfpenny Paulette
Peter Davison Professor Callahan
Duncan James Warner Huntington III
Caroline Keiff Vivienne Kensington
Aoife Mulholland Brooke Wyndham
Suzie McAdam Enid
Chris Ellis-Stanton Kyle
Susan McFadden Serena
Amy Lennox Margot
Ibinabo Jack Pilar
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Jerry Mitchell
- Choreographer
- Jerry Mitchell
- Producer
- Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals, Dori Berinstein, James L. Nederlander, Independent Presenters Network, Roy Furman, Amanda Lipitz, Broadway Asia, Barbara Whitman, FWPM Group, Ruth Hendel, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Hal Goldberg, David Binder, James D. Stern, Douglas L. Meyer, Stewart F. Lane, Bonnie Comley, Robert G. Bartner, Michael A. Jenkins, Albert Nocciolino & Warren Trepp; produced in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber; Associate
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
(L-R): Nominee Orfeh (Legally Blonde) on the red carpet. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 470
'Omigod you guys,' Legally Blonde.
Speaker not recorded. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 13'There! Right There!' 149
Speaker not recorded. Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 325- Mitchell, Jerry Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Full Monty, The Gypsy Hairspray La Cage aux Folles Legally Blonde Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 390
- Legally Blonde 595 performances Opened April 29, 2007 Closed October 19, 2008 Theatre World 2011 12 Season V 68 Willis, p. 461
- Starting with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Australia, 2006), and Legally Blonde (2007), this division has plans to musicalise another fifteen films for the stage. Cambridge Companion To the Musical Cambridge Companions To Music the the Cambrid, p. 390
- none is currently slated for recursive musical film adaptations. Of the most recent Broadway musicals based on films—Once, Bullets over Broadway, Rocky, Ghost, Kinky Boots, Bring It On: The Musical, Legally Blonde: The Musical, Carrie: The Musical— Dominic Mchugh the Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations 2019 Ox, p. 883
- Actors' Equity Association's Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs names the ensemble of Broadway's Legally Blonde as winner of its new ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook June 2007 To May 2008 Viagas Robert 4th Annual Ed, p. 10
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Legally Blonde at all.
- No director named.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.