Arts & Entertainment

Moorestown Friends Stages 'Legally Blonde'

Upper School students will perform the popular musical—based on the 2001 hit film—the third weekend in November.

Provided by Moorestown Friends School

On Nov 15, 16, and 17, Upper School students at Moorestown Friends School will be staging a production of Legally Blonde. Tickets are on sale now at the school’s Stokes Hall reception desk during school hours. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, and Saturday, Nov. 16, and Sunday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. Ticket prices are $12 for adults and $10 for both students and senior citizens.

Based on the hit 2001 film and the novel by Amanda Brown, the musical tells the story of Elle Woods, a Californian sorority sister who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner. She discovers how her knowledge of the law can help others and she ultimately defends exercise queen Brooke Wyndham, played by sophomore Marirose Aleardi (Moorestown), in a murder trial.

Elle Woods is played by Pilar Martinez, a junior from Moorestown. Senior Maureen Kelleher (Merchantville) plays Paulette Bonafonté, a spunky beautician at the Hair Affair salon. Ex-boyfriend Warner is played by senior Roy Thorstensen (Haddon Township), and the Harvard rival for Warner, Vivian Kensington, is played by sophomore Skylar McClane (Medford). The three fellow sorority sisters in the musical are played by sophomore Andayah Sams (Swedesboro) and seniors Gina Tamburri (Cinnaminson) and Elizabeth Adler (Voorhees). Elle’s Harvard love interest, Emmett, is played by freshman Noah Borromeo (Roebling), with the bloodthirsty Harvard Law Professor Callahan played by junior Brandon Beach of Lumberton.

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Music and lyrics are by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book is by Heather Hach.


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