Bailey Hanks Winner of Legally Blonde Musical

In an exciting hour of television on MTV, the hit Broadway musical Legally Blonde revealed its new Elle Woods. Last night saw Bailey Hanks winning the part with her “name up on that list,” after giving a truly winning audition for the show’s director Jerry Mitchell and the panel.

Bailey Hank's family was on hand to lend an extra layer of emotion to a delightful audition performance. You can get Bailey’s single version of the show’s song So Much Betteron itunes. Her six month contract as Elle has begun, and her first show is Wednesday. With her genuine passion for the part, and enthusiastic take on Elle, we are excited to see her in the role.

We can’t help but miss Laura Bell Bundy already, but we know we’ll see her again. In the meantime, welcome to Broadway, Bailey.

Hanks will replace Tony nominee Laura Bell Bundy as Elle Woods on Broadway in New York. She will reportedly hit the stage in Legally Blonde the Musical July 23 at 8 PM.The song “So Much Better” by Hanks will hit iTunes on July 22.

Online chatter says the Hanks won back in March of this year for the series that is pretaped.Bailey Hanks is from Nashville. Congrats to Bailey.Runner-up Autumn Hurlbert will also join the Broadway company of the show on that day, playing sorority girl Leilani and also covering the role of Elle Woods.

Written by Alex Martin from Celebrity Unbplugged Blog http://celebrityunplugged.blogspot.com/

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Bailey is not from Nashville. She is a native of Anderson, SC.

wrong town

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Bailey Hank is not from Nashville. She is from Anderson, SC. She has lived their all her life. She is a great girl. She and my daughter was in the play Annie together. Please if you are going to write an article about someone, get it right.

Hey Wrong Town

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"She and my daughter was in the play Annie together."

She and my daughter WAS in the play...

Geez, hey POT, here's KETTLE. When you find those grammer lessons, let us know.