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THEATRE REVIEW

Legally Blonde – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre

Legally Blonde is the story of a young woman with frothy interests driven to apply to Harvard Law School in pursuit of the man who has just jilted her. Finding talent and brains she didn’t know she had, she excels at Harvard while remaining true to herself. And then there’s a happy ending – on her own terms. So you smile all the way back to the Tube.

Music by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin is superbly directed by Katharine Woolley. The 15 piece band – framed upstage by Laura Hopkins’s set, which is based on oaty, vertical strip curtains through which characters dive on and off–plays the wide variety of styles required by this show score

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