'Legally Blonde The Musical' - This One's For The Girls 2009/11/11

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This musical version of the popular Reese Witherspoon film is pure pink bubblegum. Unfortunately, the gum never pops.

The young talented cast is always vibrant and sparkly. However, the show chugs along and chugs along, and winds up breathless. Indeed, the highlight of this show was any time a dog appeared.

(Photo by Joan Marcus)

Elle is a Valley Girl who smartens up her act in order to attend Harvard, the law school her ex-boyfriend is attending. That is pretty much it for plot. The score contains not a single home run, the costumes and scenery are for sure, very nice.

'Legally Blonde The Musical' has a target audience. The target is young women in the 21sh range. In a musical you are supposed to entertain your target crowd; this show bores it to death, along with the theater goers surrounding them.

In a season seemingly filled with gems at the Broward Center, this show is tarnished and it will have difficulty holding anyone's attention for very long. After the intermission it was easy to tell the large volume of attendees who left the theater during intermission. How I envied them.

'Legally Blonde The Musical' has its best chance of entertaining females of a certain age and sorority sisters. I warn you ladies, enter this world of pink bubblegum at your own risk.

The last performance of 'Legally Blonde The Musical' at the Broward Center is November 22.

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Currently spending his time between New York and Florida, Beau was born to a theatrical family in Brooklyn. He studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and at HB Studios. He studied theater singing with Julia Sperratore and Helen Gallagher. Beau later taught drama at the Lincoln Center Square for the Arts. It was at this time Beau began working with the Theater Development Fund and helped found New York's famed HALF PRICE TICKET BOOTH. Early in his career, Beau was screen tested and contracted for Warner Brothers. He co-hosted, an early cable variety series on Manhattan's Teleprompter channel. At this time he directed the Johnny Specca musical, SEX IS..? at the Lincoln Center Library Theater. Beau has performed Off-Broadway in FAT FELL DOWN, The Comic Strip Theater's LITTLE LULU AND THE INVISIBLE INK and WILL THE REAL ZOOPERMAN PLEASE STAND UP. Around the country he has delighted audiences with his performances in ANYTHING GOES, THE APPLE TREE, GUYS & DOLLS, and HELLZAPOPPIN! He sang for New York audiences at such cabarets as The Duplex and Upstairs at the Downstairs. He has had numerous television appearances but is most proud to have been a winning contestant on the game shows JACKPOT and THE $20,000 PYRAMID.

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