Gaelen Gilliland News

LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL paints the city pink as it celebrates its first year anniversary on April 29, 2008 with a week of events.

Natalie Joy Johnson, of Legally Blonde and Bare: A Pop Opera, premiered her new club act at Therapy on Monday, February 25, with Musical Direction by Brian J. Nash, with special material by John Hill and directed by Ben Rimalower.

It was announced today that the seven original stars of Legally Blonde The Musical, Laura Bell Bundy as Elle Woods, Christian Borle as Emmett, Orfeh as Paulette, Richard H. Blake as Warner, Kate Shindle as Vivienne, Nikki Snelson as Brooke and Michael Rupert as Professor Callahan, have all extended their contracts through Spring 2008.

Legally Blonde won the first annual Actors' Equity Association Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) Award for Outstanding Chorus. This is the first industry award of its type to honor the distinctive talents and contributions made by a chorus.

Laurence O'Keefe, the co-composer of the hit Broadway musical, Legally Blonde, returned to 'Broadway at Birdland' on Monday, September 24 at 7PM. The gifted songwriter was joined by a host of Broadway talent including: Farah Alvin, Annaleigh Ashford, Becca Ayers, Miguel Cervantes, Gaelen Gilliland, Kevin Pariseau, Mo Rocca and Kate Wetherhead.

Actors' Equity Association's Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) announced today the winner of the ACCA Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus 2006-2007 is Legally Blonde, The Musical. This is the first industry award of its type to honor the distinctive talents and contributions made by the chorus.

Laurence O'Keefe, the co-composer of the hit Broadway musical, Legally Blonde, returns to Broadway at Birdland on Monday, September 24 at 7PM. The gifted songwriter will be joined by a host of Broadway talent including: Farah Alvin, Annaleigh Ashford, Becca Ayers, Miguel Cervantes, Gaelen Gilliland, Kevin Pariseau, Mo Rocca and Kate Wetherhead. Laurence O'Keefe, who will also appear at Birdland on October 1, will have a $25 cover and a $10 food/drink minimum.

On Monday, June 4th, the cast of Legally Blonde will team up with America's Second Harvest and City Harvest to fight hunger.

Sh-K-Boom Records will release the original cast recording of Legally Blonde

The company of Legally Blonde, as well as show producers Hal Luftig and Dori Berinstein, are offering theatre fans the chance to have a walk-on role in the new hit musical, as well as the chance to see Legally Blonde for special VIP Houses and meet star Laura Bell Bundy and cast after the show.

BroadwayWorld.com goes PINK with this hot new video show preview of Legally Blonde. Click to watch now!

Legally Blonde, based on the hit MGM film, opened at the Palace Theatre on April 29th, and BroadwayWorld was there for the star-studded after-party!

Legally Blonde, based on the hit MGM film, opened at the Palace Theatre on April 29th after beginning previews on April 3rd, and BroadwayWorld was there!

The Broadway cast of LEGALLY BLONDE will perform two numbers on NBC-TV's 'The Today Show' on Friday, April 27th in the 8am and 9am hours

Musicals Tonight! will continue its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys and Understudies with its current edition of At This Performance…, this Monday, April 23rd at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre, 2162 Broadway, (above the Promenade Theatre- Broadway at 76th Street), 3rd Floor at 8 PM.

Having just opened to unanimously glowing notices in its pre-Broadway engagement at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theatre, LEGALLY BLONDE will be offering an exclusive pre-sale to Visa cardholders beginning this Sunday, February 11, 2007.

Beginning Friday, December 1st, everyone can 'Go Blonde!' Check out the exclusive download of the opening number, 'Ohmigod…' from the new Broadway-bound musical, LEGALLY BLONDE making its world premiere in San Francisco January 23, 2007, before starting performances in New York at The Palace Theatre on April 3, 2007. Log on to shnsf.com and check out the LEGALLY BLONDE show page to be the first to hear and download this song.

Full casting has been announed for Legally Blonde, the musical, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture.

Kate Wetherhead, Robb Sapp and Nora Mae Lyng are among the performers cast in the sneak preview of two new musicals from the BMI workshop that will be presented as part of Musicals Tonight!'s Musical Mondays Theatre Lab on May 1st

Wicked, the smash musical that tells the untold story of the witches of Oz, celebrated its 1,000th performance on Broadway on Thursday, March 23 and BroadwayWorld was there!