Legally Blonde the musical on broadway winner Bailey Hanks
As we know MTV have been running the show, Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods. This is because Laura Bell Bundy left the musical on July 20 and they needed to find a new leading lady to play Elle Woods.
Bailey Hanks has been named the winner of the MTV reality casting competition, “Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods.”
Well on Monday MTV found their new leading lady, “Bailey Hanks“. The 20-year old had never seen a Broadway show before she auditioned for the hit musical however; she did know all about Elle Woods, the always happy young blonde who proved to everyone that she had what it took to become a lawyer.
“Bailey Hanks” said that “I saw both Legally Blonde movies as soon as they came out,” says Hanks, 20. She played the original film on video “so often that our VCR ate it up. At that point, I had to buy the DVD.”
It seems that all those hours of watching the movies paid of for Hanks, as it seemed to show in her performances on the TV show.
“Legally Blonde” has music and lyrics by both Laurence O’Keefe (Bat Boy: The Musical, Cam Jansen and the Curse of the Emerald Elephant, Sarah, Plain and Tall) and Nell Benjamin (Cam Jansen, Sarah, Plain and Tall, The Mice) and a book by Heather Hach (the film “Freaky Friday”). James Sampliner serves as music director. Orchestrations are by Christopher Jahnke.
