According to an article on Economist.com, the Broadway version of the hit chick flick is a "harder-edged and very funny Broadway musical" that is "a celebration of the American Dream, albeit one with few illusions about the nature of the contemporary working life."
"One song is about the importance of having a chip on your shoulder to drive yourself to succeed against the silver-spooned toffs now increasingly common in an America that some commentators say is getting less meritocratic," the article said. "Another song is about the power of positive thinking, while a darker number, 'Blood in the Water,' advises law students to be like sharks if they want to be successful. This is sung by a law professor who later sexually harasses the show's blonde heroine. She eventually triumphs by sharkishly using her feminine attributes to discover, as one hilarious song put it, whether a key witness in a murder trial is gay or just European (it is so hard for Americans to tell the difference)."
The musical is playing at Broadway's Palace Theatre and was directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. The cast includes Laura Bell Bundy as Elle, Christian Borle as Emmett, Michael Rupert as Callahan, Richard H. Blake as Warner Huntington III, Kate Shindle as Vivienne, and Nikki Snelson as Brooke Wyndham.
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