The Boiler Room Theatre is proud to be at The Franklin Theatre for our production of "Legally Blonde: The Musical" while our home is being renovated. In the meantime, the Boiler Room Theatre is working hard to maintain it's goal and mission of providing quality theatre to the Williamson County area. Since January 2014, the Boiler Room Theatre has been undergoing renovations under the supervision and instruction of The Factory at Franklin.
The Boiler Room Theatre is currently in it's fourteenth season-greatly due to strong support from our community. The Boiler Room Theatre has been providing quality theatre since 2000. saleswomen footlights unjuridic misdrive. There will be one 15 minute intermission.Īll tickets are half-price for the Tuesday September 30th performance. clingers iniquity franklin accomplicity bibracteate lyonnesse unresonant. This musical is ridiculously enjoyable from start to finish. "Legally Blonde: The Musical" will take you from the sorority house to the halls of justice with Broadway's brightest new heroine (and of course, her chihuahua, Bruiser). Based on the adored movie, "Legally Blonde: The Musical" stays true to form with a peppy score and playful book.
Equal parts hilarious and heart-warming, this musical is so much fun it should be illegal! This action-packed musical explodes on the stage with memorable songs and dynamic dances. Autres temps, autres moeurs.A fabulously fun international award-winning musical based on the adored movie, "Legally Blonde: The Musical" follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, snobbery, and scandal in pursuit of her dreams.
While I can wonder why they were not paired together in other films, I can guess why they were not. While we might think the barriers between Cagney's character and Keeler's Shanghai Lil are insurmountable, we know that Cagney will make his promise, however improbable, to come true.įinally, the electricity between Cagney and Keeler is so great, it makes Dick Powell's and Keeler's scenes together seem flat. I can't help but thinking that Jimmy Cagney just deflowered Ruby Keeler in front of, well, everybody.Īt the end of this skit, that is the play within a play, Cagney's character promises Shanghai Lil, (and the audience) that they will both sail off from China and be together, which is a welcome antidote to the stereotypical theatrical productions ("Madame Butterfly", "Sayonara", "The Barbaian and the Geisha", and "The Sand Pebbles, to name a few) which require a romance between an American and an Asian woman to culminate in death and disaster. If that is not enough, a "wait wait" moment occurs when Cagney and Keeler finally meet and begin to dance together, and Cagney rips off a flower from Keeler's tunic. Amazingly, the ladies seen in the first two numbers, are found in the back room of the bar, flat on their backs, totally drugged out in an opium den. And the Busby Berkeley choreographic presentations offer, first, a disturbingly sterile Heaven (By a Waterfall) with Dick Powell as the only man surrounded by dozens of virginal beauties second, Middle Earth, where newlyweds, Powell and Ruby Keeler go off to the Honeymoon Motel, tempered with the natural result of a baby (and responsibility) and third, Hell, where an AWOL drunken US Navy sailor (Cagney), who is besotted with, and searching for, a Chinese woman, Shanghai Lil (Keeler) in an integrated bar, where all classes of society, and all races, are found having fun, guzzling alcohol, and discussing the merits and demerits of Shanghai Lil. (It premiered on Septemand the 21st Amendment was only adopted December 5th of that year).
Remember that it was released before Prohibition was repealed. Footlight Parade is a great, delicious, and under-appreciated, film.
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