Productions1 on Broadway
| 2007 | Palace Theatre Original. April 29, 2007 | 595 performances |
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In the literature16 passages
Mitchell, Jerry Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Full Monty, The Gypsy Hairspray La Cage aux Folles Legally Blonde book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p390
Legally Blonde 595 performances Opened April 29, 2007 Closed October 19, 2008 book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p461
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. book:cambridge-companion-to-the-musical-cambridge-companions-to-music-the-the-cambrid#p390
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— book:dominic-mchugh-the-oxford-handbook-of-musical-theatre-screen-adaptations-2019-ox#p883
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. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2007-to-may-2008-viagas-robert-4th-annual-ed#p10
Actually, I can't think of a less scandalous show on Broadway right now. Laura Bell thought it was very funny and put it on her dressing room door. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2007-to-may-2008-viagas-robert-4th-annual-ed#p214
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