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A dog is wanted to star in ‘Legally Blonde The Musicial’.
LEGALLY Blonde The Musical is going on tour and the producers are holding auditions in Killarney to discover a four-legged star for the show.
Producers of a major new tour of the smash-hit Broadway and West End musical are on the hunt for a dog to fill the role of ‘Rufus’ and auditions take place Saturday, February 10 at the Gleneagle Hotel.
EastEnders’ Rita Simons and Bill Ward, star of Coronation Street and Emmerdale are the human stars of the show which comes to the INEC from July 10-14 this year.
But Legally Blonde The Musical also has two dogs in the cast – a Chihuahua called Bruiser and another called Rufus. Bruiser is already cast and will be on the road with the cast but producers have decided to hold auditions for ‘Rufus’ in every town and city on the tour.
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Associate Director David Barrett said: “Legally Blonde The Musical is a show all about stereotypes and not judging a book by its cover and the dogs are no different in this. So whereas ‘Bruiser’ is the cute, tiny, adorable one, with ‘Rufus’ we are looking for the total opposite. We are looking for a big, brutish, dog that only its mother could love – preferably a Bull Dog as in the film but we are certainly open to options.”
Interested parties are asked to email legallyblondedogauditions@gmail.com for application and full details.
Based on the Reese Witherspoon film, Legally Blonde The Musical earned seven Tony nominations and 10 Drama Desk Award nominations during its Broadway run. In the UK it was nominated for 5 Laurence Olivier Awards winning 3 including Best New Musical, and was nominated for 8 Whatsonstage Awards winning 4 including Best Musical.
Legally Blonde The Musical, with music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the MGM motion picture, will run at INEC Killarney from July 10th – 14th 2018.
