From 26 April 2011 Natalie Casey will join the west end cast of the Olivier award-wining Legally Blonde The Musical to play ditzy beautician Paulette Buonofonté. She joins Susan McFadden as Elle Woods, Carley Stenson as Margot, Nicola Brazil as Serena, Siobhan Dillon as Vivienne and Peter Davison as Professor Callahan. Natalie Casey takes over the role from Denise Van Outen, whose last performance will be Saturday 23 April. From mid-June Lee Mead will join the west end cast to play Emmett Forrest.
Earlier this month Legally Blonde The Musical, which opened at the Savoy Theatre in December 2009 and is currently booking until 31 March 2012, won three 2011 Laurence Olivier Awards including Best New Musical.
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.
Natalie Casey is best known on television for playing Donna in the BBC's Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. On stage she has been seen in The Invisible Man at the
Menier Chocolate Factory, Oklahoma for
Chichester Festival Theatre, Well at the
Apollo Theatre, Fame at the Shaftesbury Theatre and Hobson's Choice at the
Watermill Theatre. Her other television credits include Dave Shakespeare, Missing, Hollyoaks, Head Jam, Girls Night In and Chopratown. On film she played
Shirley Temple in Chicago Joe and the Showgirl.
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),
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 (Brooke),
Stephen Webb (Lowell) and
Tara Young (District Attorney) as well as Jonathan Mawson,
Jane McMurtrie,
Lucy Miller, Ruthie Stephenson and
Gregor Stewart as swings.
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.
