'Legally Blonde' leaps from Hollywood to Broadway and now Schenectady D.B. Bonds stars as Emmett Forrest in "Legally Blonde: The Musical."The show, which opens an eight-show run at Proctors on Tuesday, is obviously a tuneful recasting of the now classic 2001 film comedy starring Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, the UCLA sorority sister who transfers to Harvard Law School to prove to her snooty ...

By Keith A. Joseph Brothers, sisters, devoted readers, it's confession time. Your humble critic has succumbed to snobbery. How? Well, let's have a flashback. Two musical works recently hit town. One, an opera, Doctor Atomic - serious, based on history, riddled with antique poetry by dead masters trailing clouds of critical glory, telecast by the Met. The other, a musical, Legally Blonde (at ...

THEATER REVIEW Legally Blonde When: Through Sunday, Nov. 23. Where: Palace Theatre, PlayhouseSquare, Cleveland. Tickets: $10-$70. 216-241-6000, or simply click here. "Legally Blonde." The musical. OK, I can see from here some of those noses turning upward and those...

The 24 Hour Company Production of The 24 Hour Plays on Broadways will be presented at the American Airlines Theatre Nov. 17. Legally Blonde Tony nominee Laura Bell Bundy and M. Ward are the evening's special musical guests.

The classic Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green musical On the Town kicks off City Center's 2008-2009 Encores! season Nov. 19. Urinetown Tony winner John Rando directs the limited engagement, which runs through Nov. 23.

Mötley Crüe brings its Saints of Los Angeles tour to Erie in March with special guests Hinder and Theory of a Deadman. See below for details. DEC. 15. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Town Ballroom, Buffalo.

"Disney High School Musical" is filling seats at Paper Mill Playhouse, and that's good news for professional theater in New Jersey.

In 1986, pundits laughed at—not with—the race comedy Soul Man, about a white college student who performs a Black Like Me charade to get into Harvard Law School. The film’s emphasis on spotlighting, then upending, racial stereotypes was widely misread as improbable, unnecessary, and “racist.”