MTV Premiere of Legally Blonde The Musical Moved to October
By Ernio Hernandez
and Adam Hetrick
26 Sep 2007
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Laura Bell Bundy in Legally Blonde.
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| photo by Paul Kolnik | The MTV broadcast of Legally Blonde The Musical has been rescheduled for Oct. 13, Playbill.com has learned.
The musical's television debut which had been slated for Sept. 29 will now play the mid-October date. Air time is 1 PM ET.
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The program will feature the broadcast of the entire musical as well as a behind-the scenes look at the musical, which currently plays the Palace Theatre. The musical will subsequently air several times on the cable network.
The musical was filmed a total of three times once in its entirety, another without an audience, and a Sept. 18 filming with an audience of theatregoers ages 15-25. That performance took on a more interactive feel with the entire orchestra section full of pink-clad fans. All of the footage will be combined for the MTV broadcast.
The MTV broadcast will feature a Pink Carpet extravaganza filmed at the Palace Theatre; the aforementioned backstage feature will air prior to the telecast of the musical.
Directed and choreographed by Tony Award Jerry Mitchell, Legally Blonde officially opened at the Palace Theatre April 29. The new musical began previews April 3. The original cast recording is available on Ghostlight Records.
Laura Bell Bundy (Hairspray, Wicked) plays sorority girl Elle Woods, who gets dumped by her boyfriend and follows him to Harvard Law School. The Blonde cast also includes Christian Borle (Spamalot) as Emmett, Orfeh (Saturday Night Fever) as Paulette, Richard H. Blake (The Wedding Singer) as Warner, Kate Shindle (Cabaret) as Vivienne, Nikki Snelson (Off-Broadway's How to Save the World
) as Brooke and Tony Award winner Michael Rupert (Sweet Charity, The Happy Time, Ragtime) as Professor Callahan.
The score is by Laurence O'Keefe (Bat Boy: The Musical) and Nell Benjamin (Sarah, Plain and Tall) with a book by Heather Hach (the film "Freaky Friday"). James Sampliner serves as music director. Orchestrations are by Christopher Jahnke.
Visit MTV's website for more on the broadcast and future airings at mtv.com. For more information, visit legallyblondethemusical.com.
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