I'm a HUUUGE fan of Legally Blonde : The Musical, I know every line, every note, every choreography by heart, and this one, omg, this ONE, is the BEST a High School has ever done ! Most of the time, I'm starting to get bored when Elle does her personnal essay, but this time it blew my mind like whoaaaa ! I love it, we see how much they work for it, snap snap !
Elle was played by Alli Kramer, who won the award for Best Actress at the CT Musical Theater Awards that year. She went on to be featured in PBS's "Broadway or Bust." Look through other of my videos to see her great performances while in high school.
+Jesmin xD Usually about six or seven weeks. The Directors and kids work really hard. Monday thru Thursday and then on Saturday. Lots of work, but the results are nearly Broadway quality.
+tnhogdog Indeed amazing! I'm still impressed with the dancing and the vocal quality! The girl that played Vivianne managed to sing Legally Blonde Reprise in a way that even other actress that replaced the original one couldn't do.
Aw man, this was really good! I loved the girl playing Elle and the guy playing Emmett :) Emmett's voice was beautiful...smooth...and Elle had the perkiness I hoped! This was a great dress rehearsal and can only imagine how the actual production turned out! Also, the girl playing Paulette was perfect!
We actually had two dogs, the same ones who appeared in the actual Broadway show. These shows are expensive to put on, but we have great community support (virtually every show is sold out every year), so we are able to do them.
thank you so much for posting this. I watched all your videos. It is the best high school production of legally blonde on youtupe. Its fantastic. Thje orchestra, the actors Everything!
The school is a public school in a well-to-do area. The money from the shows comes from ticket sales and the playbill as well as some corporate sponsors. All the sets are built and painted by parents of the kids in the shows.
From the light guy: Light boxes (on the sides) made using clear corrugated plastic. (Lawn Sign Plastic) Lit using Color Kinetics Colorblast 6. One at the base and one at the top.
Its a high school guys? Does everyone really expect it to be some amazing performance like up the west end? Compared to other high school's this one is brilliant! Very well done! To make a musical in a school isn't easy.
Amazing Leads! (especially Elle and Paulette... Warner and Emmett have a few pitch issues.) Set design was wonderful for a high school production, Lighting design was very coordinated, but very expressive. Brilliant. Pit issues (BRASS SECTION) but the actors did well ignoring it. Overall, A for sure!
Amazing performance. If you are doing Legally Blonde then you need to DO it. And this school definitely DID that!!! :) Can't wait for my performance this spring!!
i wish my high school would do legally blonde! it would be so much fun! we are about to do west side story. it still is hard for me to believe that this is not a preforming arts hs.... everyone is extremely talented and i can tell that these students really devote themselves to the craft. this was brilliantly done
Wow! This is a high school production? I've seen a lot of pretty awful high school productions of big shows like this, but this is really good! Congratulations to the cast, crew, and orchestra!
HIIIII!!! So was there an audience present? Because if there was, they should have cheered and clapped a lot more! THIS WAS SO AWSOME! Like omg this was sSUPERMEGAFOXYAWESOMEHOT YOU GUYS ARE MY NEW FAVORITE PEOPLE!
Only parents and immediate family were allowed at the dress rehearsal, so only about 100 or so were in the audience that night. All five performances were sold out before opening night (about 720 per night).
I think if they were trying to bring Broadway to their school though, they did a good job. I've only seen the recorded MTV performance and, while this one does seem to adapt much of it, it's not exactly the same. I appreciate the amount of work that must have gone into trying to make this as good as the original.
Bloody hell, you guys even had a dog. That's freaking amazing. Wish my school would do cool play like this, our drama teacher just writes all the ones we do *____*
The students should be commended. They are very talented. That said, the "director" and "choreographer" should be ashamed. I hope the program listed this as a re-staging of the original direction and choreography since this was all clearly copied from Jerry Mitchell--not to mention the set and costumes. You would be teaching your students so much more if they learned to create their own characters vs watching videos of other actors' portrayals and copying them...right down to the ad-libs.
it was fantastic!!!! brilliant for a high school thats not even performing arts!!!! i just wish warner would have been a better singer, espically in serious, but it was still good! x
Honestly Elle is amazing and I hate to be that guy but if she would have used a vibrato it would have made her belt more natural. That is really the only thing and it not so much a criticism as a helpful tip.
I hate how people think that race matters in a high school productions. Like with Pilar, she was black in the broadway version, but that doesnt matter. and how emmett is black. if they have talent than who gives a shit. Im pretty sure someone famous said "talent knows no race". or something like that.
I'm a HUUUGE fan of Legally Blonde : The Musical, I know every line, every note, every choreography by heart, and this one, omg, this ONE, is the BEST a High School has ever done ! Most of the time, I'm starting to get bored when Elle does her personnal essay, but this time it blew my mind like whoaaaa ! I love it, we see how much they work for it, snap snap !
Cast are amazing and the sets - WOW! Sets are like a proper West End show
Elle was played by Alli Kramer, who won the award for Best Actress at the CT Musical Theater Awards that year. She went on to be featured in PBS's "Broadway or Bust." Look through other of my videos to see her great performances while in high school.
Everyone is great, but Elle, Emmett, and Paulette are truly standouts. They're fantastic!
+Cassidy Parker Knight Vivienne is something else too. That Belt she did is incredible and so difficult!!!
How the hell can your school afford all this?! Private?!
+SteAndKel Nope. A public school supported by community ticket sales and businesses/parents advertising in the Playbill.
+tnhogdog How long did it take to learn all of this?
+Jesmin xD Usually about six or seven weeks. The Directors and kids work really hard. Monday thru Thursday and then on Saturday. Lots of work, but the results are nearly Broadway quality.
+tnhogdog They are! That's just... wow. And in such a short amount of time!
+tnhogdog Indeed amazing! I'm still impressed with the dancing and the vocal quality! The girl that played Vivianne managed to sing Legally Blonde Reprise in a way that even other actress that replaced the original one couldn't do.
That Elle is pretty spectacular
It's so annoying that the band were SO shit. The talented cast are AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING.
this is the best high school production of legally blonde on youtube!!!
Great Elle! One of the best I have seen! And Paulette and Callahan!
this is by far the best set props i've seen for the high school production of legally blonde.
Honestly, this is the best high school version of "Legally Blonde". Congratulations guys!
Love the choreography!! ... but the gag is so did the original cast
Aw man, this was really good! I loved the girl playing Elle and the guy playing Emmett :) Emmett's voice was beautiful...smooth...and Elle had the perkiness I hoped! This was a great dress rehearsal and can only imagine how the actual production turned out! Also, the girl playing Paulette was perfect!
We actually had two dogs, the same ones who appeared in the actual Broadway show. These shows are expensive to put on, but we have great community support (virtually every show is sold out every year), so we are able to do them.
Best performance of 'What I want' I've ever seen!
This one definitely had the best set, dancing, and synchronicity of all the HS versions I've seen.
That Elle is adorable and that Paulette is fabulous! I can't believe this is a high school production.
You're welcome. The dress rehearsal has some warts that got cleaned up in the real performances, but it's still fun to watch.
OMG THIS ELLE IS AMAZING!
How are there so many talented kids at that school?? In our school there's about 5 are actually good in the school play!!!
Same. And there are no talented guys, they all graduated in the spring
Compared to my old high school productions and other high school productions in my city, it doesn't even compare! Great job here! =D I enjoyed it
thank you so much for posting this. I watched all your videos. It is the best high school production of legally blonde on youtupe. Its fantastic. Thje orchestra, the actors Everything!
I love how at the end of this act they were just like "OH MY GOD!!!!"
this is very good, it is so similar to the actual broadway show which i love
Amazing job with What you Want, first one I've seen where the guys can both sing and dance! :)
This is literally the best a High School has ever done Legally Blonde!! AMAZING job!
This is one of the best high school productions of Legally Blonde I've ever seen. Must be a rich school because those sets and props are unreal.
The school is a public school in a well-to-do area. The money from the shows comes from ticket sales and the playbill as well as some corporate sponsors. All the sets are built and painted by parents of the kids in the shows.
the dancers were really great!! Fun to watch! Especially during "what you want" Elle was has a great voice!
From the light guy:
Light boxes (on the sides) made using clear corrugated plastic. (Lawn Sign Plastic) Lit using Color Kinetics Colorblast 6. One at the base and one at the top.
The man who trains the dogs for most B'way shows has his business in CT. We hired him and his dogs for the show.
Its a high school guys? Does everyone really expect it to be some amazing performance like up the west end? Compared to other high school's this one is brilliant! Very well done! To make a musical in a school isn't easy.
Amazing Leads! (especially Elle and Paulette... Warner and Emmett have a few pitch issues.) Set design was wonderful for a high school production, Lighting design was very coordinated, but very expressive. Brilliant. Pit issues (BRASS SECTION) but the actors did well ignoring it. Overall, A for sure!
Major props to y'all! This is fantastic!
Great Sets!
Amazing performance. If you are doing Legally Blonde then you need to DO it. And this school definitely DID that!!! :) Can't wait for my performance this spring!!
I wish my school in England did things as good as this.
THIS IS AMAZING OH MY GOD
Just like broadway! :D Thanks for uploading this!
This is high school production? xD crazy good
Wow!!! And this is a rehearsal!!!
Yep.
i wish my high school would do legally blonde! it would be so much fun! we are about to do west side story.
it still is hard for me to believe that this is not a preforming arts hs.... everyone is extremely talented and i can tell that these students really devote themselves to the craft. this was brilliantly done
I really like the emmett too!!! Everyone is amazing so impressed love this musical and know itoff by heart !!!
It looks EXACTLY like the bRoadway production, but it's with "kids", which makes it a thousand time more impressive! Good Job!
this is great! I am seeing this in Pittsburgh this June!
Wow! This is a high school production? I've seen a lot of pretty awful high school productions of big shows like this, but this is really good! Congratulations to the cast, crew, and orchestra!
HIIIII!!! So was there an audience present? Because if there was, they should have cheered and clapped a lot more! THIS WAS SO AWSOME! Like omg this was sSUPERMEGAFOXYAWESOMEHOT YOU GUYS ARE MY NEW FAVORITE PEOPLE!
Only parents and immediate family were allowed at the dress rehearsal, so only about 100 or so were in the audience that night. All five performances were sold out before opening night (about 720 per night).
paulette is my favorite! she's a genius!!!
They had me at omigod! this was friggin amazing i mean trained dogs and everything pilar sound horse but was still really good absolutely spectacular
Three teachers from the school played the parts. On one or two nights, a father of one of the directors filled in too.
That elle woods was great
This is SO good! Is this a preforming arts school or something?
+Shannon Rizzo No, just a public school with two very good directors and some talented kids.
+tnhogdog it's ducking amazing if you ask me
Beat version of Legally Blonde I've ever seen! Even better than my own schools, and I was in it... Whoops..
Lol Bravo!!
Emmett is fantastic! Such a great cast!
Dear god the students have such energy! That's what our production needs! The pit's a bit sour though :(
The Elle in this is pretty incredible. I am impressed.
I'm usually really critical about remakes of this musical BUT THIS WAS AWESOME!
This Elle is very reminiscent of Analeigh Ashford
"Bruiser loves Glee" omg... I can't stop laughing.... Amazing!
who plays elle? she should be on Broadway, amazing performance!
All of these actors were fantastic, but the girl who played Paulette really stood out to me.
No, not dubbed. Everyone is singing their parts.
This is a high School??!! They are really really good.. wow
I see that they are using the lyrics they wrote for the London version of the show than the original Broadway ones.
Only the London version of the script is able to be rented. I'm doing the show right now
This pilar rocks, her voice is awesome.
my school will be doing this play next year, im trying out for emmet! :D
Great Serena, Margot, and Pilar!!!
Who was cast as Callahan? I can't see his face at all.
Where are all the fabulous choral harmonies?? :? Hmmm...
I think if they were trying to bring Broadway to their school though, they did a good job. I've only seen the recorded MTV performance and, while this one does seem to adapt much of it, it's not exactly the same. I appreciate the amount of work that must have gone into trying to make this as good as the original.
Bloody hell, you guys even had a dog. That's freaking amazing. Wish my school would do cool play like this, our drama teacher just writes all the ones we do *____*
who played the three professors that appear at 19.44?
this is a great show...elle is great, but the orchestra hurts my ears
I love you!! STARKID!!
The students should be commended. They are very talented. That said, the "director" and "choreographer" should be ashamed. I hope the program listed this as a re-staging of the original direction and choreography since this was all clearly copied from Jerry Mitchell--not to mention the set and costumes. You would be teaching your students so much more if they learned to create their own characters vs watching videos of other actors' portrayals and copying them...right down to the ad-libs.
That's amazing! How'd you guys manage to do that?
That's so great
Were the guys at Harvard actual teachers?(:
they did change some words and thats about it. like replacing a magazine with cosmo and time of our lives with "glee".
actually he does all broadway shows that has animals in it also they are all rescue dogs, how cool is that?
Oh my goodness oh my lord thats so many!
omg this has broadway stage written all over,Elle was great
pit issues, but elle is awesome, and energy is awesome!
They're so talented! Except for the orchestra.
a.. a fellow Starkid?! YESSSSSS
Is this dub
Yes.
cool cool cool!!!!
in the final, they left to do more energy, it is sooo slow, at the rest great elle
Wait who was Kate??
+ApMaddie luvs Kara Burgess
the guy playing warner reminds me of ethan craft from lizzie mcguire.
STARKID MEETS LEGALLY BLONDE! YAS!
Oh my Rowling. Starkid! I love you so much :D
it was fantastic!!!! brilliant for a high school thats not even performing arts!!!! i just wish warner would have been a better singer, espically in serious, but it was still good! x
They Are SOOO Talented. But.. SAME SET AND COSTUMES AND DANCING!!!!
Honestly Elle is amazing and I hate to be that guy but if she would have used a vibrato it would have made her belt more natural. That is really the only thing and it not so much a criticism as a helpful tip.
I see some fellow Starkids here!!!!!!!!!
I hate how people think that race matters in a high school productions. Like with Pilar, she was black in the broadway version, but that doesnt matter. and how emmett is black. if they have talent than who gives a shit. Im pretty sure someone famous said "talent knows no race". or something like that.
actually he does all broadway shows that has animals in it.
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