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  • Three things:

    1. STOP COMPARING REPLACEMENT ELLES TO LBB! Its very annoying. Yes, LBB originated the role and was phenominal; but she's gone so get over it.

    2. BAILEY IS VERY GOOD (IF NOT BETTER) THAN LBB! If she was bad, she would not have been chosen over Autumn*

    3. THE SHOW CLOSED BECAUSE OF TICKET SALES, NOT BAILEY! The show was in deep water even while Laura was still there. This was an amazing show; and it will be missed, but don't blame the closing on one person:)

    U guys get it? good:)

  • The reason the show closed is not because Laura left and Bailey took her place, blaming Bailey for the show closing is rude and absolutely ridiculous. Ticket sales were already low. Think about it - people think this show is a joke. Legally Blonde is not for everyone. When I tell people about the show, they think the fact that they made Legally Blonde into a musical is hilarious. It's the unfortunate reality of the situation. I personally loved it when I saw it and wish that it hadn't closed :(

  • I'm the biggest LBTM fan there is, and if I don't hate Bailey, neither should you, she awesome! Laura Bell beats her out but about 80% But shes still amazing, i mean shes so cute as the part to I love her.

  • wow they really used the "background" singers to help out her vocals!

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  • wow u had REALLY good seats!! LUCKY!!! was that 8th row center?!

  • @AllthatGlittrz13 no i think it was like 3rd row.

  • I just noticed, when she goes "WOAH" at the beginning this trumpet blurts out and it sounds REALLY cool!

  • That was great! And the filmer has great seats!!! But was the whole show like that, where you could barely see the people because of the lights?

  • @silenthillmaster755 No. It's just the camera picked up the lighting. I could see the people clear without the glare.

  • Good because that would be annoying watching it like that

  • why does everyone hate bailey? she is amazing as elle in what i have seen at least and people just hate her because she was the first replacement and replaced LBB. i feel that she sung this song so much better (hehe) here than when she recorded it because they edited her voice so much and they didnt have to.

  • full show for trade?

  • Bailey was NOT the reason the show closed! The show was in danger of closing before Bailey was even cast!!!

  • So I so this with LBB and I didn't watch whatever the MTV thing was to find a new Elle. But I really liked Bailey ...in this video. And I love LBB but, at least here, Bailey sang this song better.

    ps dont they have a no filming thing at the beginning of the show?

  • Yeah but there always those who break the rules and dont care!

  • is that tracy or leslie as serena

  • tracy

  • Amazing!!!

  • The only thing i have to say is, i mean i luv bailey, shes def talented but just no one beats LBB im just sayin like u agree??

  • i completely agree.

  • Completely agree! I've seen many girls do a decent job as Elle..but LBB is in a league of her own!

  • guys you have to forget about LBB, like shes gone and its unfair to be constantly comparing the new elles to LBB, like LBB was the original Elle so of course she's going to be brilliant when she made Elle Woods!

  • Why doesn't she twist when they're singing "kind of a cool ironic twist"? That's what I've seen all the other Elles do. I still love Bailey though, I always wanted her to win.

  • She made her own Elle, she isn't supposed to copy every movement of every other Elle. Duh.

  • It sounds really fast.

  • Poor Christian Borle...

  • she sounds so much betetr than she did on the show

    I thought she was pretty good on the show but this is wayy better than that!

  • i love bailey!!!!!

  • didn't the show stop 4 months after bailey started?

    god laura bell bundy is so much better than all of the girls on the reality show

    no pun intended

  • The show was in danger before Laura Bell left, the show was to promote ticket sales. As we all can see, it failed :[

  • Who is the Serena it looks a lot like Leslie Kritzer the original Serena but I know it isn't, but I do know that it is not Tracy Jai because she has different hair.

  • It might be her understudy, Tiffany Engen.

  • I was at this performance, it was Tiffany Engen.

  • she is off on so many notes. a tv show is not the way to cast a broadway role. it's too bad, b/c the show was really good.

  • I saw bailey in Legally Blonde the day before it closed and she was great!!!! go Bailey!!

  • The key sounds like it's lower than LBB if you compare both clips.

  • it is in a lower key. bailey cant sing in the proper key. its still amazing though

  • not true. LBB couldn't sing it in the original key after losing her voice and they lowered the key at that point in the show. so it was already lowered before bailey or the reality show even came into the picture

  • and reese witherspoon has nothing on people like laura bell and bailey hanks

  • they knew that the show was going to be over when laura bell left, and her contract was extended twice

    bailey was cast through a reality show

    the whole thing was kind of a joke they were doing it for publicity obviously they weren't going to handle it like a serious audition for the part

    they already had becky standby for the national tour

    they just wanted to give bailey a glimpse of fame - make some girls dream come true, before they got on with the real thing before they moved onto the tour

  • That's pretty smart of you to analyze like that.

    Bailey claims that she wants to be Glidna in Wicked. If she does, I will lose faith in it. And I love wicked.

    The casting through tv was a dumb idea.

    They should have picked up a Glinda to do Elle. Not Bailey. She ruined the show.

  • That's not true...they knew it was in danger of closing, so they made the reality show as a way to advance ticket sales...it helped a little the first couple weeks Bailey was in the show, but then it just went downhill.

  • Yeah when they filmed the show lived and played it on MTV they did that to try to make money. THe show was in trouble right from the gecko.

  • The saying is not "right from the gecko." That doesn't make sense. A gecko is a lizard! It's "right from the get go."

  • @GodzLittleRocker The show didn't close because Laura left. The whole reason behind the reality show was to draw attention to the show because ticket sales were low.

  • Bailey Hanks is the reason Legally Blonde closed!

    She is crap!

  • did she win tht thing on mtv

  • yes

  • bailey did do good for not having any broadway training but she needed more experience before taking a role like this

  • BAILEY IS NOT BETTER THAN LAURA!

  • i don't think anyone will ever top laura bell bundy, especially since whenever someone takes over someone else in a role they originiated it's always a comparison. but i think for never having any formal broadway training she's doing a phenomenal job

  • actually i saw bailey on legally blonde's closing night and she was amazing and she worked so hard ot get this part and she deserves it so its not her fault ticket sales went down

  • I love this song bcause of Bailey. When I heard Autumn sing it she was awesome too but I wasn't sold completely yet. Then I heard HER sing it and now I can't stop listening to it!!! I'm happy she got something she worked extremely hard for. And for Autumn, I hope I'll see her on Broadway soon again. She was really talented too!

  • i saw bailey at the last show she was amazing

  • I feel like she doesn't really show emotion in her voice...I dunno. I mean, she sounds fantastic, I just suppose I'm so used to the diversity of LBB...But, you know what? Kudos to her! :)

  • i just saw this today..and shes way better than laura and she deserves everything she has. I got chills when she sang this song

  • i'm not gonna lie, i'm a little disapointed. she was my favorite in the search for elle woods..and i was sooo happy when she won.and now watching this..shes not that greattttt..i mean yeah she had her good points but idkk i thought she'd be alot better

  • I bet all the shows are closing because of the economy. soon it will just be another great depression. I pray it's not thgouh

    :(

    I dont wand Legally Blonde, Title of Show, Xanadu, or Hairspray to leave. I also didnt want Rent to leave either. what is happening?

    :(

  • we still have broadway's gem, Wicked! :) All of those shows that closed were amazing though :(

  • she sounds tired.

  • no she dsnt

  • Well she isnt exactly getting long to perform as legally blonde is closing in 3 weeks!

    I couldnt believe it!

  • the show is moving to london

    why is it closing on broadway?

    it's only been open since april last year

  • ticket sales went down

  • nope. its canceled because of ticket prices and they cant afford it anymore.

  • it isnt Baileys fault. rumors were going around even before Laura left.

  • Actualy Legally Blond had low tickets sales even when Laura Bell was casted as Elle. The reason they made the show to find a new Elle was to hopefully bring up tickets sales. Sadly it wasn't enough. But I can't stand Bailey I bet everybody was disapointed after seeing her.

  • You had really good seats

  • Is Nick Kinkel still in the show? He is the best guy in the chorus.

  • /watch?v=gos3IM5WGgc

    Watch it please! Its so funny!

  • I saw Bailwy lke 2 weeks ago se was great1

  • jerry mitchell has to keep the same choreography between each elle because you have to keep the show consistant!

  • Love Jerry Mitchell!

  • ok 4 everyone who keeps sayin lbb is sooooo much better (no pun intended) STOP!!!! cuz i would like to c u do that! i didnt think u could. and shes improved so much!!!!!!!!! and she lost her accent. i thought it was cute. but being able to do that is extremely hard as well. and ive been doin shows for 20 yrs and been on Broadway in shows like Aida and Les Miserables. its soooo hard so nobody BETTER say shes bad cuz shes amazing got it!?!?!?!

  • and who are you to tell us this? we are not all clones of you, so we can say if we don't like her if we freakin want to? Now, i actually like bailey (but was rooting for autumn) but i still think that LBB was the best of all elles. Yes, she orginated the role, but that origination was perfection.

    I think it's a little self centered of yourself to act as if we had better not voice our opinions and that yours is superior simply because you claim to have been in the business.

  • wow...i'm gay and YOU are the one talking LIKE THAT? lmao...you sound like some wannabe actress. get over yourself and accept other opinions, you self-centered egotistic asswipe.

  • gosh she has improved so much!! this is amazing. i wish people would stop talking about laura bell... stars of shows are always replaced... and the replacements are not supposed to be carbon copies. that would just be so boring. bailey ROCKS.

  • I agree with you completelyy! I hate that everyone is saying she's bad. Nobody is noticing that she has COMPLETELY improved. A few months ago, I said...maybe I'll give her a few more months before I see her live. But, I think I'd like to see her much sooner than planned. Bailey DOES rock.

  • I miss how Laura Bell turns around when she grabs the list from the wall. Bailey does some gay skipping thing. >:[

    I just wish they had done traditional casting for something this big. When you do usual casting you always find someone at the same level as the person dropping out or better.

    You can tell she was cast from tv. I don't hate her but she's more like the talented girl in school plays rather than the show stopping broadway blonde.

  • I absolutley Love Bailey!I love laura bell too,but bailey can hold that last lote an never has to take a breath.I love them both!

  • oh i didnt know annaleigh played Elle. Are there any videos of her playing Elle?

  • were some of the girls on the top from the show like the finally???? (- autumn, rhiannon, and lauren)

  • minus those three.... not from them the dash could mean 2 things :)

  • Personally I'm not a huge fan of Bailey, and I prefer LBB. But, she couldn't have stayed on forever. I mean, we have to get used to listening to someone that's not LBB. Cuz Legally Blonde's going to be on Broadway for awhile.

  • Whoa. Talk about terrible!

  • She was the best for this role of all ten girls, no doubt in my mind. I'm glad that Autumn's her understudy, though. Her voice is phenomenal.

    I just want to see Bailey perform so badly!

  • i still think it is so sad that laura's contract ended :(. buut... baily is really good.

  • She contract didn't end. She left the show on her own to work on her own music. :)

  • to follow LBB has to be pressurious for Bailey because she's being judge whether or not she's LBB, not Elle Woods. I noticed somethings in the clip that LBB did that Bailey chose obviously not to do, to show ownership of the role. I'm pretty opened. I wonder if they considered Reese Witherspoon at all.

  • lbbb is laura bell bundy!!! the greatest elle woods that ever performed on legally blonde the musical!!! but i think she retired tahts why they put on the show "search for the next elle woods"

  • who's lbb?

  • Laura Bell Bundy

  • wow i miss the OBC It had Laura Bell Bundy, Annaleigh Ashford, Leslie, Dequinna, Becky, and all the other great Delta Nu's

  • Here is how I rank everyone whose played Elle

    1. Reese Witherspoon(She introduced Elle)

    2. Laura Bell Bundy(a close second loved her)

    3. Haven Burton(great as Elle)

    4. Becky Gulsvig(Good)

    5. Bailey(just okay don't blow me away)

  • Don't forget Annaleigh! She played Elle for one night!

  • lauren was good too. but woww has bailey improved since the show. soo much better. haha.

  • omg i agree so much! i remember at the beginning of the show when they first sang So Much Better she was off key a lot but now shes so much better! lol

  • *sigh* I wish Lauren had won. Lauren was FIERCE.

  • I am not saying that I dont like her or think that LBB was better

    I can see that Bailey improves a lot from the reality show,but I dont think she is good enough to be elle.Her voice's great but def NOT strong enough to be a broadway star.

    But I think she will get better of doing the show 8 days a week.

  • Whoa, Bailey has definitely improved since the reality show! I'll always like Bailey but LBB was better, and a lot of people think the same, not only because LBB is amazing, but because she was the first. Bailey is awesome, and she definitely IS Elle Woods. (:

  • ok shes good and has a pretty good vibrato but the other was sooooooooooo much betta she blew me away while bailey didnt

  • WOOT!!! AUTUMN 3rd in on the left at the end!!!!

  • Hehe. I thought that was her.

  • She really has gotten a lot better since the show days! I'm glad she is getting to do what she's always wanted to do!

  • She's good, but she doesn't blow me away. Intonation is kind of meh in places.

  • okay people saying that they dont like bailey.. well its getting old. and nobody cares that you like laura bell better. she's no longer elle. so get over it. cause bailey's awesome. you try getting up there and doing that. seriously. and autumns not elle either. so get over it.

  • Ummm...people who are saying that they "don't like" Bailey or "like Laura Bell better" are probably people who would be happy if someone capable of doing this role justice was playing it. To replace someone who has been doing professional theatre since she was a little, with an unseasoned community theatre actress is RIDICULOUS when there are tons of people in New York City working their asses off waiting tables who would do it better. Don't get pissed at people who truly appreciate theatre!

  • who's to say she didn't want it just as bad as they did? maybe she just didn't have the money or the means to do what they're doing! i'm happy for her, her dreams are coming true, more power to her!

  • Right on! I love that Bailey came from a small southern town and made her dreams come true! She's awesome.

  • I was wondering if your trading this video?

    if you are just send me a message because i would really like tbis

  • i rly wanna see bailey cuz i saw laura bell bundy so i wanna compare them! lol

  • I saw Laura Bell Bundy three times and she blew me away each time. Im going next week to see Bailey, and i can't wait. I must admit tho, she has improved SO much since the MTV show.

  • I saw her finally and she was amazing. She decided to do a no show at the stage door though so I'm a little mad. But hey I met Laura Bell Bundy, twice!

  • Makes me curious if Christain IS sad Laura went, I mean, not because he probably made a life long friend with her but because the show isnt the same without her. You look at Laura and she looked so sweet and kind and looked like she was friends with all the cast etc.

    Baily on the other hand looks like she is a cow, she isnt kind and sweet etc like Laura was and backstage I cant see her being exactly little miss niceness, not like Laura more then likely was, noone likes those types of people.

  • I bet he was also sad because him and Laura are involved Romatically as well outside of the show.

    I see Bailey being a totally B-I-T-C-H backstage and not to mention she's pretty awful

  • gahh, i really wanna go :(

  • Aw, she doesn't do the twist!

  • Just out of curiosity has Autumn gone on yet?

  • Just saw the show yesterday...Autumn was in it and was awesome backstage....as for Bailey she decided to pull a no show and my sister was crying the ride home because she couldn't meet Bailey. I'm really annoyed with her for that -.-

  • Oh im really sorry about that. Was Autumn enjoyable?

  • Autmn even though she's a small part did a great job and at the stage door she was a sweetheart

  • Wait did u see Autumn as Elle or as ensemble?

  • only ensemble

    Bailey was elle that day and didn't bother coming out after the show O_o

    we waited till like 11....then the guy there tells us she already left -.-

  • Oh well... that's weird... cuz I def got to see Bailey and take a picture with her that day.

  • i dunno she didn't come out the day I saw her =/

  • dude glorwen yu dont even kno her name its LAURA!!!!!

    omigod i love bailey! im guna go see it october`1

  • I do know her name: Lauren as in the one from the MTV show not Laura Bell. I'm not stupid, thank you.

  • I still don't like Bailey. Lauren was way better.

  • TOTALLY

  • I think they both are too young for the role

  • agreed there are two ppl who have totally rocked this role Laura and Becky

  • Thank you! Or maybe Autumn I think Autumn would of been a good pick and should of won. But I guess she didn't have the Elle look which was really all the were looking for for the most part not actual talent

  • Haha i was going to say Autumn but its a good way to get beaten up by Bailey fans.

  • And omigod people are like getting in my face because I don't like Bailey now! They are like seriously mad and hate me....I think everyone deserves an opinion and I respect theirs about them think Bailey is like amazing, so the least they can do is respect mine on not favoring Bailey exactly.

  • her voice is AMAZING NOW !!!

  • do u have more vids of her...

  • Christian just looks like he wants out of there.

  • how can you tell?? you can't even see his face...

    just sayin

  • Just the way he gets out of there after the handshake.

    I think he thinks the show lost something besides Laura.

  • he doesn't like Bailey he wasn't happy about her winning I think he's a Laura Bell Bundy person lol.

  • Duh he's a Laura Bell person they are liek dating right?

  • I've heard he does want out of there....He was supposed to leave August but his show he was doing next got moved back cuz they couldn't find a theater.

    I heard a rumor that at one point he planned on calling out of the show from Bailey's first show until his finale performance. But that was just a rumor

  • lucky front row! i am SOOOOOOOOO jelaous! lol :)

  • I think she did this really well, she sounded great, better than on the show actually. And she held that last note beautifully.

  • I miss Laura Bell Bundy

  • me too :(

  • She's better than I thought she would be when I saw her on Broadway...I was impressed.

  • I Just like it when Emmett's repeatedly tapping on her shoulder, when she doesn't even realize her name is on the list.

  • I think Autumn is the last 'E' in Elle. . . .

  • i think she is the 2nd L in elle.

  • it sucks cause im seeing this on friday and i was really hoping to see laura :( its not the same>:(

  • I wish they'd re-record the So Much Better single on Itunes, because she improved ALOT since then!

  • I miss LBB Baily doesnt blow me away.

  • Agreed.

  • i love bailey..i gotta be honest i wasnt rooting 4 her in the how...i loved rhiannon..but now eeing bailey..thi part was made 4 her

  • Well, at least Rhiannon will be playing Margot on tour!!

  • understudying elle too!

  • i like the lowered key better.

  • I did a little research ( asking my vocal coach and everybody else) singing ( in this case, half-belting) for a show 8 times a week tends to take a toll on your voice. They lowered it for LBB not only because it was straining her voice, you can develope nodules (sp?) like Julie Andrews.

  • she honestly sounds

    SO MUUCCCCH better!

    ...than before

    for real.

  • thanks for this!

    she's a good elle woods on broadway but she isn't theeee original.

    never will be

    =[

    ThankGoodness i saw laura before she left, i wanna see bailey too!

  • an octave lower?? HA it's only a key lower. so get over it.

  • being a little catty here, aren't we? i admit i wrote the wrong thing, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion honey

  • if you hate her so much why are you watching this!i bet you cant sing like that.(i know i cant)so just shut uo

  • So, you're not allowed to comment on someones talent if you can't sing? Huh?