So … we're still figuring this out. There's something called Legally Brown: The Search For The Next Piragua Guy, which looks like a web-only spoof that's supposedly casting for a bit part of Broadway musical In The Heights. "Dozens of people" auditioned. It's a take off of MTV's reality show Legally Blonde: The Search for the Next Elle Woods, which crowned Bailey Hanks the winner, only to see her show get canceled.
From the videos we watched, well, it's sort of funny, mostly because its creators got actual Broadway stars involved, including the likes of Allison Janney (of new Dolly Parton show 9 To 5) and Cheyenne Jackson (he of the also-closing Xanadu), as well as Legally Blonde's judge Bernie Telsey to reprise his role. That, and you don't need to be a total theatre geek to get the jokes.
Below, the project's trailer, which reminds viewers that each of the contestants, who are on Broadway, have a chance to be on Broadway. CONTINUED »
Underdog Xanadu continues its Tony Awards campaign with its latest YouTube clip, this one featuring Nathan Lane and the semi-naked boys of the show, including star Cheyenne Jackson. You see, producers are worried that the show is too gay. A musical. Based on a movie Olivia Newton-John starred in. Too gay. Hard to believe, yes. So they're doing everything they can to shoot down those rumors. Or, at least, and with the help of Nathan Lane, make the issue appear so overblown, Tony's voters won't feel like they have to bow to public pressure and give the award to someone else.
The ever-alluring Cheyenne Jackson gets all sorts of gay in The Advocate’s latest edition. Rather than taking his publicists’ white-washing advice to eschew his sexuality, the Xanadu actor lets it all hang out. And we mean really out.
