The Muny production of Legally Blonde The Musical plays the outdoor St. Louis venue July 25–31.

Maggie Burrows directs with choreography by William Carlos Angulo, associate choreography by Shanita Talmor, assistant choreography by UJ Mangune, and music direction by Lon Hoyt.

The cast features Kyla Stone as Elle Woods, Fergie L. Phillipe as Emmett Forrest, Patti Murin as Paulette, Sean Allan Krill as Professor Callahan, Hayley Podschun as Brooke Wyndham, Kelsey Anne Brown as Margot, Gabi Campo as Serena, Kerri George as Enid, Khailah Johnson as Pilar, Dan Tracy as Warner Huntington III, Olivia Kaufmann as Vivienne Kensington, Mackenzie Bell as standby for Paulette and Brooke Wyndham, Gregory Lee Rodriguez as standby for Emmett Forrest, and Dave Schoonover as standby for Professor Callahan.

Rounding out the company are Andrés Acosta, Angela Birchett, Veronica Sofia Burt, Shea Coffman, Taylor Marie Daniel, Abigail Isom, Sydney Jones, Emily Madigan, UJ Mangune, Alora Tonielle Martinez, Adelina Mitchell, Natalia Nieves-Melchor, Ben Nordstrom, Liam Pearce, Gabriel Reyes, Matt Rivera, Cristina Sastre, Rochelle Scudder, Christopher De’Shawn Tipps, Julien Valme, and Ricky and Myrtle as, respectively, Bruiser and Rufus. The company is joined by the Muny Teen youth ensemble.

Legally Blonde has music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin and a book by Heather Hach.

The production also has scenic design by Tim Mackabee, costume design by Leon Dobkowski, lighting design by Rob Denton, sound design by John Shivers and David Patridge, video design by Hannah Tran, wig design by Liz Printz, and animals by William Berloni. The production stage manager is Matthew Lacey.

The season also includes The Color Purple, running August 3–9; and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, running August 12–18.

Legally Blonde choreographer Angulo’s steps to the musical’s “Legally Blonde (Remix)” for the theatre’s season-wide dance audition became a viral dance challenge on TikTok earlier this year.

READ: How The Muny’s Dance Call Became a TikTok Viral Dance Craze

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Graham Techler’s The Panic of ’29 begins previews in Theater B at Off-Broadway’s 59E59 Theaters. Co-presented with Less Than Rent Theatre, the comedy will open July 31, and play through August 20.

Dot, secretary to the New York Stock Exchange’s Vice President, she skips town following the stock market crash in this dark comedy. Joined by a group of misfits, Dot goes on a decades-spanning journey to escape the events of this wild alternate reality of the Great Crash that ended the Roaring Twenties.

Starring are Will Roland (Be More Chill), Olivia Puckett (Dear Evan Hansen), Erik Lochtefeld (King Kong), Joyelle Nicole Johnson (Love Joy), Jaela Cheeks-Lomax, Rachel B. Joyce (The Collision), Julia Knitel (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Jared Loftin (tick, tick…BOOM!), Jack Maloney (Pippin), Will Turner (SeaWife), and RJ Vaillancourt (Saint Joan).

Devin Kessler (Yes), Brian Morabito (Romans), Jacob Presson (Our Town), and Rachel Ravel (Halston) serve as understudies for the production.

Max Friedman serves as both director and set designer for the production. Also serving on the creative team are costume designer Corina Chase, lighting designer Jamie Roderick, sound designer Margaret Montagna, props designer Brandy Hoang Collier, and dramaturg Nora Brigid Monahan. Orchestrations and arrangements are by Barrett Riggins, and fight and intimacy direction are by Lexi Orphanos. Karen Schleifer serves as production stage manager, with Kate Holland as stage manager. McKenna Quigley Harrington is associate producer.

For tickets and more information, visit 59E59.org.

Roundabout Theatre Company has selected its next directing fellow and the new directors group cohort for the 2022–23 season. 

Brooklyn-based director Mack Brown will be Roundabout’s fifth Directing Fellow. During their fellowship, Brown will assist on multiple Roundabout productions, and work with the theatre’s artistic team as a script reader and on developing two of their own chosen projects. A member of the third cohort of the directors group, Brown prioritizes work of their communities, choosing work that centers lesbians and trans people. 

Previous years’ directing fellows include Sivan Battat, Whitney White, Miranda Haymon, Kathleen Capdesuñer, and Cristina Angeles.

The fourth Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group cohort includes Autumn Angelettie, Chari Arespacochaga, Britt Berke, James Bruenger-Arreguin, Adam Coy, Evan T Cummings, Devin E. Haqq, Susanna Jaramillo, Margaret Lee, Sarah Shin, and Dina Vovsi. Led by Roundabout Associate Artist and past directing fellow Cristina Angeles, the mentorship program will provide career assistance and community for emerging directors. 

Support for the Directors Group and all of Roundabout’s Artists in Residence programming is provided by the Leon Levy Foundation.

As Broadway Records and Yellow Sound Label prepare to digitally release the Off-Broadway cast album of Meredith Willson‘s The Unsinkable Molly Brown July 22, we’ve got a special preview of leading lady Beth Malone (Fun Home) singing one the tracks. Listen to Malone sing “Share the Luck/He’s My Friend (Reprise)” from the upcoming release below.

“Share the Luck” is one of several trunk songs from the Music Man composer’s archives that were newly interpolated into the score of the 1960 musical by Dick Scanlan, who penned the production’s new book and additional lyrics. This particular song was originally written by Willson for the Red Cross, with references to the non-profit changed by Scanlan to “good book.”

The musical tells the rags-to-riches story of Margaret “Molly” Brown—a turn-of-the-century hero of the underdog, champion of women’s rights, fighter for labor rights, advocate of immigration reform—and, most famously, survivor of the Titanic. A love story about a woman who rejected the notion that it’s a man’s world, this new Molly Brown portrays Molly as she really was—vibrant, progressive, modern.

Led by Malone in the title role, the album features the cast of Transport Group’s 2020 production, including David Aron Damane, Whitney Bashor, Omar Lopez-Cepero, Alex Gibson, Paolo Montalban, Paula Leggett Chase, Lauryn Ciardullo, Karl Josef Co, Kaitlyn Davidson, Tyrone Davis, Jr., Gregg Goodbrod, Michael Halling, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Keven Quillon, and CoCo Smith.

The band, under the direction of Joey Chancey, features Meg Zervoulis on acoustic piano and synth; Suzy Perelman on violin; Joe Wallace on upright bass; Micah Burgess on arch top, steel string, banjo, and mandolin; John Skinner on alto saxophone, clarinet, flute, and piccolo; Justin Vance on flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor saxophone; Jami Dauber on trumpet and flugelhorn; Alex Jeun on tenor and bass trombone; and Barbara Merjan on percussion and drums.

The reworked revival opened Off-Broadway February 26, 2020, at The Transport Group following earlier runs at the Denver Center Theatre Company and the St. Louis Muny. Directed and choreographed by three-time Tony winner Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes, The Pajama Game), the production featured scenic design by Brett Banakis, costume design by Sky Switser, with gowns for Malone by Paul Tazewell, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski, sound design by Walter Trarbach, music direction by Joey Chancey, and casting by Nora Brennan.

Produced by Michael Croiter, Michael Rafter, and Dick Scanlan, and recorded by Andy Manganello, the album will feature liner notes by Luis Miranda, orchestrations by Larry Hochman, and additional orchestrations by Michael Starobin and Bruce Coughlin. Michael Rafter adapted the music, and Joey Chancey is music coordinator. The recording was mixed and edited by Croiter at Yellow Sound Lab and mastered by Michael Fossenkemper of Turtle Tone Mastering. The album was recorded December 12, 2021, at Power Station at Berklee in NYC.