Legally Blonde Tickets

Based on the hugely successful 2001 film of the same name (itself from the book by Heather Bach), Legally Blonde was turned into a stage musical in 2007 by Lawrence O'Keefe and Neil Benjamin, and had its first tryout in San Francisco, from where it transferred to Broadway a year later, before coming to the West End in 2009. 

The story revolves around Elle Woods, a beautiful, blonde student at UCLA, whose fiance, Warner, breaks off their engagement amid fears that Elle isn't 'serious' enough about her life. Desperate to win him back, Elle follows Warner to Harvard Law School and enrols, determined to show him that she has brains as well as beauty. Whilst initially well out of her depth, Elle soon finds she has a flair for law and ends up successfully defending a friend on a murder charge, whilst realising that she doesn't need Warner in her life to feel fulfilled. 

On the back of the success of the film starring Reese Witherspoon, Legally Blonde arrived on Broadway in 2007 and was nominated for seven Tony Awards, and soon began bringing in a million dollars a week. A national tour of the US followed in 2008, before the show transferred to the Savoy Theatre, London, in January 2009, with Sheridan Smith as Elle, and Duncan James, Jill Halfpenny and Peter Davison in supporting roles. The show was also the first in the UK to offer 'ticket lotteries', similar to events like the Olympics and Wimbledon, to try and make allocation and availability fair to all. Other actors to appear in the West End version include Carly Stenson, Richard Fleeshman, Natalie Casey, Denis Van Outen and Lee Mead, and the show won the Best Musical gong at the 2011 Olivier Awards.

In July 2011, the show began a UK tour, which carries on through 2012.