From mid-June Lee Mead will join the West End cast of the Olivier award-winning Legally Blonde The Musical to play Emmett Forrest. He joins Susan McFadden as Elle Woods, Carley Stenson as Margot, Nicola Brazil as Serena, Siobhan Dillon as Vivienne and Peter Davison as Professor Callahan.
Olivier-nominated Alex Gaumond, who has played the role of Emmett since the UK premiere of the show, has now extended his run until mid-June when Mead will take over.
Legally Blonde The Musical opened at the Savoy Theatre in December 2009 and has been playing to packed audiences ever since. In addition to winning the 2011
Laurence Olivier Awards for Best New Musical, Best Actress in a Musical (
Sheridan Smith) and Best Performance is a Supporting Role in a Musical (
Jill Halfpenny), Legally Blonde The Musical is now booking until 31 March 2011.
College sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods doesn't take no for an answer. So when her boyfriend Warner dumps her for someone serious, Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and heads for Harvard Law! Along the way, Elle proves that being true to yourself never goes out of style.
The current full cast is
Stephane Anelli (Padamadan, Nikos),
Emma Bateman (Stenographer),
Nicola Brazil (Serena),
Thomas Camilleri (Carlos),
Peter Davison (Professor Callahan)
Siobhan Dillon (Vivienne Kensington),
Chris Ellis-Stanton (Grandmaster Chad, Dewey, Kyle),
Kimmy Edwards (Judge, Saleswoman),
Alex Gaumond (Emmett),
Ibinabo Jack (Pilar),
Suzie McAdam (Enid),
Susan McFadden (Elle Woods),
Sorelle Marsh (Courtney, Mom, Whitney),
Aoife Mulholland (Brooke),
Sean Mulligan (Pforzheimer), Dawn Sievewright (Kate, Chutney), Carley Stenson (Margot),
Lincoln Stone (Dad, Winthrop, Reporter),
Simon Thomas (Warner), Robbie Towns (Aaron), Dominic Tribuzio (Kiki),
Denise Van Outen (Paulette),
Tamara Wall (District Attorney) and
Stephen Webb (Lowell), as well as Jonathan Mawson,
Jane McMurtrie,
Lucy Miller, Ruthie Stephenson and
Gregor Stewart as swings.
Lee Mead played the title role in
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Adelphi Theatre from 2007 to early 2009, after winning BBC One's
Any Dream Will Do. In 2007 he released his debut solo album,
Lee Mead, followed in 2009 by Nothing Else Matters. Most recently he starred as Fiyero in the West End production of Wicked. His previous theatre credits include Lord Arthur Savile in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime on tour in the UK; The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre; Miss Saigon on tour in the UK and Tommy.
Directed and choreographed by Tony Award-winning
Jerry Mitchell, Legally Blonde The Musical has music and lyrics by
Laurence O'Keefe and
Nell Benjamin, book by
Heather Hach, set design by
David Rockwell, costume design by
Gregg Barnes, lighting design by
Kenneth Posner and
Paul Miller, sound design by
ACME Sound Partners and orchestrations by
Christopher Jahnke.
Legally Blonde The Musical is produced in the West End by
Sonia Friedman Productions,
Robert G. Bartner, Ambassador Theatre Group,
Bud Martin,
Adam Zotovich,
Jamie Hendry Productions,
Matthew Byam Shaw and
ACT Productions.
