Imagine you're an aspiring actress. You just left your small town of Anderson, South Carolina to compete in a nationally televised reality show for the chance to win the role of a lifetime: Elle Woods in Broadway's Legally Blonde: The Musical. Against unbelievable odds, you beat out a bunch of ridiculously talented amateurs from across the country, won the part (Omigod!!) and took the Broadway stage to rave reviews...only to find out the show's taking its final curtain call on Sunday, October 19th -- only four months after your big debut.
So what's a burgeoning Broadway star to do? How about bounce right back -- and win a fantastic role as Sharpay in the Paper Mill production of High School Musical?? Catch Bailey Hanks in her next role starting November 5th, and give the girl snaps for refusing to let a little thing like a closing show slam the door on her musical theater dreams.
Ohmigod, you guys! Sorry to be the ones to break the news, but we just learned the Legally Blonde musical is about to be as O-V-E-R as Elle Woods and Warner Huntington III!! But fear not, fellow LB aficionados -- you still have three more weeks to check out your main girl, Bailey, before the final curtain call on Sunday, October 19th.
So get out their and support our Broadway showgirl before it’s too late! And trust us — if you miss seeing Bailz nail that final note in “So Much Better,” you’ll be sadder than Bruiser Woods the time Elle’s carry-on broke at LAX — and he was forced to ride with the checked luggage.
Bailey Hanks may be an MTV reality show winner and a Broadway superstar, but at heart, she's still a sweet Southern gal (whose mother may or may not drive a pink VW bug.
Which is why she got the hero's welcome when she finally found time to pack her fuchsia-colored bags and head home to Anderson, South Carolina where she signed autographs, put on a one-woman Legally Blonde show and was presented with the keys to the city. (OMG, you guys!)
+ Haven't had a chance to see Bailey's name in black-and-white...in the Legally Blonde: The Musical program? It's time to get serious, and check her out! Or at least hear what she had to say after her first-ever curtain call.
Unless you've been living under a giant -- and completely soundproof -- rock, you know that Bailey Hanks (the winner of the Legally Blonde: The Musical casting special) has spent the past month wooing Broadway audiences as pink-clad Harvard dynamo Elle Woods. So how's she doing? Just fine, apparently. Well, except for a little case of Summer withdrawal...
"I told my friend the other day how much I miss Myrtle Beach," Hanks recently told her hometown paper. "I'm used to being at the beach during the summer."
But don't worry, LB fans -- she won't be trading in her law books and killer pumps for a bikini anytime soon. "This is where I knew I was meant to be," she declares.
And no offense to Laura Bell Bundy (or, for that matter, Autumn!) but we couldn't agree more.
