Legally Blonde the Musical

"Hilarious - Brilliant - Truly spectacular" The Daily Express

College sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods doesn't take no for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone serious, Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and heads for Harvard Law! Legally Blonde the Musical will take you from the sorority house to the Halls of Justice with London's brightest new heroine (and of course, her Chihuahua, Bruiser). The verdict? This much fun shouldn't be legal!

"Perfection - Ridiculously enjoyable from start to finish" The Independent

Legally Blonde the Musical comes to London's West End following a successful 1½ year run at The Palace Theatre on Broadway in New York. The musical is based on the 2001 comedy Legally Blonde which starred Reese Witherspoon as 'Elle Woods'. The cast for Legally Blonde in London features Sheridan Smith as 'Elle Woods', Duncan James as 'Warner' and Alex Gaumond as 'Emmett' along with Aoife Mulholland as 'Brooke Wyndham', Susan McFadden as 'Serena', Peter Davison as 'Professor Callahan' and Jill Halfpenny as 'Paulette'. Please Note: Duncan James will be on holiday from 20 February to 1 March 2010 (inclusive). All casting subject to change.

"A feel good delight!... Sheridan Smith is glorious. She brings vitality, warmth and great comic timing to the role... A huge hit" The Daily Telegraph

"Like the film but with diamante bells on, Jerry Mitchell's musical is a hymn to all things pink and girlie and drooled-over by teen princesses. The costumes are totally Barbie, the hair-dos perfectly My Little Pony, the sets impeccably Polly Pocket. And just like them, it's pure plastic - and it's fantastic... This is a light-ascandy-floss, 100-per-cent-calorie free show. However, read those glossy lips, because there's a message for girls: it is OK to be pretty and pink and blonde because guys who are worth it will see the pure gold beyond the highlights. But it is even more important to think positive, stand by your sisters and be yourself. I didn't come out singing - there's not a single distinctive or catchy tune - but I did come out grinning. This is the ultimate feel-blonde, feelpink show." The Mail on Sunday

"Delightful" The Times

"It screeches and skids around in a flounce of pink feathers. Trying to follow Legally Blonde on the stage is like trying to net a flock of scalded flamingos. It's squeaky and rapid and sends itself up, and doesn't stay still - or in one costume - for more than a second. It's a musical for the Twitter generation. And it's packing in audiences... The key, though, musical and otherwise, is Sheridan Smith. She's a surefire raiser of the spirits, in song, dance and repartee, and the only surprise is that it's taken her so long to land a big lead." The Observer

"Infinitely more enjoyable than the 2001 movie... Sheridan Smith has true big star quality"
The Guardian

"The cast are wonderfully lively throughout, as is Jerry Mitchell's direction and choreography. If Sheridan Smith, as Elle, isn't quite such eye candy as Reese Witherspoon, nor in quite the right age bracket, she's still a lot of fun. She uses a comic screech to great effect and, although Elle's not a girl to weep much, insisting always on being a 'beacon of positivity', on the one occasion she does blub, it's hilarious: a kind of strangulated baby gurgle that made me want to see her cry a lot more... For the most part, the comedy here is pretty broad, and this is not a show with any anxieties about getting too silly. It's all goodhearted fun, though, if you can switch off various parts of your brain circuitry for 2 1/2 hours, and it's hard not to emerge at the end wearing a smile." The Sunday Times

"Jerry Mitchell's production simply blows other musicals out of the water" The Sun

"Legally Blonde is synthetic as hell and relentlessly upbeat. It is also the most enjoyable new show on Broadway. Like Wicked and Hairspray, Legally Blonde encourages girls to think that, in the real world, a woman's intelligence and pluck will attract more attention than her physical attributes... Working with the cheerful, hard-beat music and lyrics of Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin, director Jerry Mitchell keeps everything zooming along." The Financial Times (Original Broadway production

"A winner" The London Evening Standard

Legally Blonde the Musical in London at the Savoy Theatre previewed from 5 December 2009 and opened on 12 January 2010.