I'm the kind of person who DVRs everything and watches it later so I don't have to sit through the commercials. Even at that, I have to be on my laptop or working on school or a project or just something. (Unless I can get settled down enough to just chill on the couch with my fiance... but, of course, I DO talk through half the show regardles, lol) I wait till new movies come out on DVD so I don't have to sit and be quiet for 100 entire minutes. (I'm not quiet. I like to chat. Things in a movie will remind me of something very important to say, or I'll get confused in a plot and ask questions every 2.7 minutes... Don't believe me? I can give you a 42-page list of references)

Now I DO go to movies, and I DO go to shows (especially while on vacay!), and I can't deny I have this inner grief over the tragedy of Disney's EPCOT getting rid of the Barbie LIVE show. (Come on - she had a PINK convertible! And Brigette and Ken and everyone was there - way fun! Or at least I thought so the last time I saw it, ohhhh, maybe 12 years ago?) and I really gotta have my fix of stuff like that. But until I'm there, I'm usually not psyched. (Unless the event in question is Disney Princesses on Ice. Don't go ther

e. Or Colbie Caillat. Best concert ever.)

ANYWAYS, I heard Legally Blonde the musical was coming to Cleveland's Playhouse Square. When I was younger, I saw the Broadway Beauty & the Beast there. (If it comes back, I'm so there!) Then, last August, Jonathan and I went with a bunch of his family to go see the Lion King. A year or two before that, I went to NYC with Jonathan's mom, sister, and another friend of ours, and we saw the Lion King on REAL Broadway. ;-) So when I heard about Legally Blonde (that movie is SO an Amanda movie!!) coming, I gave it a thought or two...

For those of you who are missing out on one of the most quintessential girl movies ever, here's the scoop:

It's Spring semester at UCLA. The Delta Nu sorority sisters are certain that their sorority president, Elle Woods, will soon be engaged to her boyfriend, the eminently eligible Warner Huntington III. But instead of proposing, Warner breaks up with Elle. He explains that he's going to Harvard law school next fall and wants someone "serious" in order to fulfill his life plan.
Heartbroken, Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. She devises a strategy to show Warner that she's "serious": Step 1) Get nto Harvard Law; Step 2) Impress him with her high IQ; Step 3) the Wedding!
Elle finds out that getting into Harvard Law was the easy part. She's underestimated by her overachieving classmates, kicked out of her first class, and worst of all, learns that Warner has a new girlfriend! But Elle is one blonde who doesn't take no for an answer, and she turns things around. She gets a lot of help from frineds: Paulette, her stylist, Emmett, her professor's assistant; and her Delta Nu sisters, who appear as her own personal Greek Chorus. And no one can forget Bruiser, her best friend on four legs!    (Taken from the playbill, but you can go to Wikipedia to learn tons more!)

Glittery, musical, modern, and cute? Definitely. But fear not, you "serious" pink-hating people out there. Just as the story aims to prove, things are much deeper than face value. Critically acclaimed, this one is great on all ends.

Who among us can't remember a time when we've been judged for the way we look or don't look, or had a dream we never, ever imagined would come true?
It's no wonder audiences around the country have fallen in love with the plight of Elle Woods in Legally Blonde The Musical.
First came the moving starring Reese Witherspoon as the heroine who proved that beauty and brains do go hand in hand. And, following the film's wildly successful run in movie theaters and on DVD, it was a clearly no-brainer that the show would be transformed into a Broadway musical. The kudos - which include a slew of Tony and Drama Desk nominations - have com from everywhere. Fox News pronounced Legally Blonde The Musical to be "an infectious good time!" New York Times critic Ben Brantley summarized the fee-good plot, explaining, "A girl can be a powder puff and a power broker at the same time. You see, Legally Blonde let's a gal have it all."  You go girl!      Linda Feagler

I'll be the first to say I figured it would probably be cheesy, but come on, pink, sparkles, and the cutest little puppy? K fine. I couldn't resist. Jonathan couldn't come on any of the nights I could (our school schedules clash soooo badly this semester!!) so it turned into a future sister-in-law girls night out - just me and Jon's big sis Nicole.

Can I just tell you that this show was sooooo fab?? It was cute, clever, hilarious, hottttt (the UPS man? I told Nicole she was screaming the loudest of the whole crowd when he did his little dance across the stage) and, as a true Legally Blonde knowledgeable professional, I can assure you that there were many differences in the plot and the dialogue. It was very fresh (a lot of the humor wasn't recycled from the movie or written by random old guy trying to think of references to today's culture) and I liked how the story was just a tiny bit different. I can't say it's as good as the movie - seriously now, what is? Reese Witherspoon was FAB! - but it definitely held its own! And it was PINK and GLITTER and TINY PUPPY and ROMANCE and GIRL POWER (Can you hear the Spice Girls circa late 90s-00 screaming "Gurrrrl Powwahhhh!") overload!!  A few of my favvvvve things!