LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL earned seven 2007 Tony Award nominations, ten 2007 Drama Desk Award Nominations, a 2007 Outer Critics Circle Award and the chorus of the musical was honored by Actors' Equity Association's Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) with the first ever ACCA Award. The Original Broadway Cast Recording for LEGALLY BLONDE was released on Ghostlight Records, an imprint of Sh-K-Boom Records, and has impressively sold over 100,000 albums.
In June, MTV premiered "Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods", an eight episode reality series to cast Broadway's next Elle Woods. The judges of the program and Jerry Mitchell - not America -decided on the July 21, 2008 Finale episode that Bailey Hanks was the winner, and she made her Broadway debut two days later. The reality show represented the musical's second venture with MTV. In the fall of 2007, MTV aired Legally Blonde The Musical in its entirety to stellar ratings and was subsequently nominated for two 2007-2008 Daytime Emmy Awards.
LEGALLY BLONDE is produced on Broadway by Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals and Dori Berinstein, in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber.
The first national tour of LEGALLY BLONDE kicked off on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at Rhode Island's PPAC. Other venues for "the funniest, most fabulous new musical" (WWOR-TV) include: Baltimore, MD (September 30-October 12, 2008); Buffalo, NY (October 14-19, 2008); Rochester, NY (October 21-26, 2008); Cleveland, OH (November 11-23, 2008); Schenectady, NY (November 25-30, 2008); Philadelphia, PA (December 2-7, 2008); Hartford, CT (December 9-14, 2008); Washington, DC (December 16, 2008-January 11, 2009); East Lansing, MI (January 13-18, 2009); St. Louis, MO (January 20-February 1, 2009); Austin, TX (February 3-8, 2009); Houston, TX (February 10-22, 2009); Des Moines, IA (February 24-March 1, 2009); Memphis, TN (March 3-8, 2009); Orlando, FL (March 10-15, 2009); West Palm Beach, FL (March 17-22, 2009); Greenville, SC (March 24-29, 2009); Naples, FL (March 31-April 5, 2009); Clearwater, FL (April 7-12, 2009); Durham, NC (April 14-19, 2009); Charlotte, NC (April 21-26, 2009); St. Paul, MN (April 28-May 10, 2009); Chicago, IL (May 12-31, 2009); Pittsburgh, PA (June 9-14, 2009); Dayton, OH (June 16-21, 2009); Nashville, TN (June 23-28, 2009); Kansas City, MO (June 30-July 5, 2009); Atlanta, GA (July 14-19, 2009); Dallas, TX (July 21-August 2, 2009); Ft. Worth, TX (August 4-9, 2009); Los Angeles, CA (August 11-September 6, 2009); Costa Mesa, CA (September 8-20, 2009). More cities - and continents - to be announced soon.
All tickets ($121.50-$41.50) can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com, by phone at 212-307-4100, or in person at the Palace Theatre box office, 1564 Broadway. The performance schedule is Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm and Sunday at 7pm.
