As we enter the fourth week of competition on MTV's Legally Blonde The Musical: The Search For Elle Woods, one thing is clear: the judges prefer the blonde contestants, if only because they coincidentally have emerged as the most talented prospects. Meanwhile, things are not looking so good for the show's three non-blondes...or maybe there are four non-blondes, if you count Natalie who is sort of a brownish blonde. But I don't know, it's hard to remember that Natalie's even around with her bland performances and useless on-camera commentary.
By the by, does anyone remember that band Four Non Blondes? They sang that song "What's Going On?" They were a 90s one hit wonder. Don't you love the 90s? VH1 does. They did a whole miniseries about it.
So anyway, at the end of last week's episode, Lindsay was sent home for failing to live up to her Elle-like appearance. Then the other three girls who were marked as failures that week--Celina, Lauren, and Emma--were released from the casting office to return to the Pink House and thank their lucky stars.
When they walked in the door, they are immediately greeted with hugs, and Emma finally drops her Tough Tina act and sheds a few tears of relief/mortification.
I JUST NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE AS PATHETIC AS THE REST OF YOU
Once the near-losers are settled in, all of the girls gather around, wanting to know what it was like to be in the casting office. But Celina is too pissed off at Cassie to focus on her recent tale of woe.
See, at the last audition, Cassie (who everyone hates) told the judges that none of the girls supported her during rehearsals, even though she always supported each and every one of them. Really, she was only referring to Bailey, but she decided to just blame everyone.
As you can imagine, this did not go over very well, and even though Cassie is now acting as though nothing happened, Celina and the rest of the contestants are not ready to drop it.
FIRST I'M GONNA KILL YOU, THEN I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT THE CASTING OFFICE
And so they all begin telling Cassie how they feel. Autumn believes that in this crazy situation they're in, Cassie is perceiving things incorrectly, taking offense when no offense was intended. Celina thinks she needs to watch what she says. Emma thinks she's not a team player. Etc, etc.
To all of this critiquing, Cassie responds the same way she does to any of the judges or instructors in this competition, with a cheerleader-like nod of the head and a chirpy "Okay. Okay."
That is, until it finally sinks in that "Hey, nobody likes me." Then she begins to cry, and offer up a strange defense. "It's just that I don't know how to talk to girls and I don't have girl friends."
EVEN MY IMAGINARY FRIENDS ARE ALL BOYS
This week, I watched an episode of Clean House , a show on the Style Network where Niecy Nash (Deputy Raineesha Williams on Reno 911!) brings a bunch of bitchy interior designers into really cluttered houses and makes the owners have a garage sale. And quite randomly, the episode I caught featured Cassie's family. Yes, there she was. Cassie, with her sister, her dad, and her grandmother, living in a house in California that had a kitchen full of spare dishwashers and a backyard full of random lumber.
I felt bad for little Cassie. They made her throw out all of her old dance costumes. And I felt worse for her grandmother because this one particularly aggressive designer made her throw out these vases and statues that were a gift from her pastor, and the poor woman was too frail to fight to save her beloved treasures.
My point is that after seeing Cassie's bedroom (messy, just like mine!) and meeting her grandmother, I can't help but feel a teency bit sympathetic, even if she is petulant and socially inept.
After attacking Cassie for an hour or so, the girls all head to bed to get some beauty sleep.
And the next day, the wonder what's in store for them. It seems every time they head to rehearsal, they're put through something worse than the time before.
But today, when they arrive at rehearsal, they looked pleased.
DUFF'S BEEN FIRED AND WE GET A NEW MENTOR?
It seems that today's challenge is to play with two dogs. These guys:
SAY HELLO TO MAH LEETLE FRENS
They play Bruiser, Elle's dog in the show. Not both at the same time, of course. They take turns. It's kind of a Mary Kate and Ashley as Michelle Tanner situation.
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Comments (4)
Just caught something today...I was watching Hairspray (2007) for the first time and noticed someone famiiar from Legally Blonde...Cassie S. So I checked with IMBD and yep it was her. She has a small part "Brenda" at the beginning of the movie with the dancers on the show. She looked great. It was just strange to recognize her.
1 of 4 | Posted by eellsinoc | Posted on June 28, 2008 10:21 PM
I got suckered into this show because of your recaps, HW, so I blame you for the fact that 'Oh my gawd' has been ringing my ears for two weeks now...and I only know the first line and a half, so it's really annoying. So thanks a heap.
I was sympathetic to Cassie for a while, but she really does seem to be thick as a brick.
Autumn is beautiful and probably should be successful elsewhere, but she's not showing much but pure dorkiness here.
The only real standout is Rhiannon (watch her full performances vids).
You have to figure that with all the millions that go into a Broadway show, they're not going to take a risk on a 'reality' show like this unless they stocked the fish tank with at least two highly likely possibilities.
I like Natalie in a weird way--she's had some good performances too, even though they edit her to look boring. She'd be awesome in a soft-core teen slasher/gore movie.
2 of 4 | Posted by itchy | Posted on June 29, 2008 12:39 AM
I'd like an encore of Lauren's boobs.
3 of 4 | Posted by EZ Rider | Posted on June 30, 2008 11:15 AM
I was actually surprised at how good Rhiannon was this week. I agree that the winner was selected long ago and chances are it will be someone who's has some experience in the theatre (like Emma).
Unlike most people, I don't find Bailey to be all that spectactular. She looks the part, but I don't see anything special about her. I did read an interview she gave to her hometown newspaper. She apparently is moving to NY although I don't think that necessarily means anything.
4 of 4 | Posted by murphena | Posted on June 30, 2008 12:14 PM