If you are looking for a good example of making some sour lemons in the sweetest lemonades, consider the origin story of ‘legal blond’. When Amanda Brown went the law study at Stanford University, she quickly concluded that it fits her badly with her, a fashion lover, blond-haired, bustling young woman who made notes with a downy pink pen.
But Brown changed those experiences in a comic novel she walked around, her pink-paper manuscript eventually pulled herself out of the slush stack of a literary agent and soon the focus of a Warlywood-Studio war war. The 2001 film was a big hit and was adjusted six years later in a Broadway musical.
A tour has brought that musical to St. Paul’s Ordway Music Theater, and if you are looking for airy, airy rate that gives you the feeling that the summer is official here, this show is for you. The husband Songwriting -Team of Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin embraces Unapological Foolishness, and the cast of this Tour makes a nice balance between convincing and cartoon -like in a strong and consistent fun production.
So nice in fact that you will probably have a very good time, even if you only distinguish about a third of what seems to be very smart texts. During the opening evening, the Audio was inconsistent and the orchestra out of balance with it. That makes a good argument to flee later when the bugs are probably eradicated.
Director Cynthia Ferrer and choreographer Dana Solimando hold the actions in full-running while you follow the story of Elle Woods, a UCLA-fashion-merchandising major who wants to win back her ex-boyfriend by following him to the Harvard Law School. There she impresses a professor and eventually lands in the defense team for a controversial murder case. (The disbelief, legal eagles.)
The score of O Like I said, crazy, just like the Mock Boy band Ballad, “Serious” and one from the mist spoof of “Riverdance.”
Things take place a bit in the second act, when we spend far too much time debating about the sexual orientation of a character whose ties with the plot seem to be pretty weak. But, just like in the first act, Elle van Kathryn Brunner is there to pull us out of the break with a large ballot bar that underlines the determination or discouragement of the character.
Brunner provides a magnetic center for the story, her ELLE an easy to root-for underdog with a bustling aura, a sweet voice and a chihuahua in tow. She is well supplemented with a large, energetic cast, under the Standouts Anthea Neri-Beste as her comic cosmetologist, Nicholas McDonough as a Smarmy career and Edward Stadenmayer as the kind of downward professor that most former university students can recognize.
Decorated in brightly colored lighting, set pieces and projections (with pink as a dominant tint), there is much dessert-without-entertainree to “legal blonde”, but this cast sells it well, making it as bubbles as his fascinating protagonist.
‘Legal blond’
When: 7:30 pm Wednesday-free day, 14 and 7:30 PM Saturday, 1:30 PM and 7:00 PM Sunday
Where: Ordway Music Theater, 345 Washington St., St. Paul
Tickets: $ 164- $ 45, available on 651-224-4222 or Ordway.org
Capsule: a sweet, foolish clothing for a summer evening.
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