legally-blonde

Hastened By New Legally Blonde Reality Show, Theatre Continues to Die

Richard Lawson · 06/03/08 10:07AM

Honestly, I enjoyed the Legally Blonde musical. While it strays a bit from the popular Reese Witherspoon movie (which was based on a book) about a, um, blonde Californian sorority girl who ends up making it big at Harvard Law School, it's still fun and peppy (and Pepto-y! So pink!) and makes no major offenses. The show's star, Laura Bell Bundy, is appropriately brassy and shrill and belty. It's a fun, silly time at the theatre. That being said, the new MTV reality series Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods (which premiered last night), in which a gaggle of dopes with limited talent compete to take over the lead role, is a dreadful pile of muck that takes the already-weak and defenseless Theatre and beats it senseless with a pink cellphone.

Three Reasons Why We Won't Be Watching MTV's 'Legally Blonde' Reality Show

Molly Friedman · 05/05/08 06:30PM

As Variety reports today, MTV just greenlit eight episodes of a new reality show called The Search For Elle Woods, in which ten blonde hopefuls will compete to play the lead in Broadway's version of Legally Blonde. Reminiscent of NBC's You're The One That I Want, that high-kicking monstrosity in which amateur dancing, singing, crying, laughing Great White Way hopefuls danced their little hearts out for the chance to star in last year's revival of Grease, this one will thankfully rely on judges instead of America to determine the winner. But after hearing the details behind MTV's production plans, our initial sense is that the summer series will be utterly unwatchable. Three reasons why this show should not go on, after the jump: