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The brains behind the legal blonde

A scene from Oregon Cabaret Theatre's current production of "Legally Blonde"
Courtesy Oregon Cabaret Theatre
A scene from Oregon Cabaret Theatre's current production of "Legally Blonde"

It's not JUST that the stage version of "Legally Blonde" added songs. That's plenty right there, but the tale of the underestimated blonde woman who gets herself a law degree has several more dimensions as a musical. Dancing for one, jumping rope for another.

It goes on from there, and Lauren Blair is in charge of all of it, as the director and choregrapher and casting director for the show, now onstage at Oregon Cabaret Theatre.

Vanessa Finney visits with the director in a new edition of The Creative Way. We get some idea of what it takes to go from bare stage to fully produced musical.

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Vanessa Finney is JPR's All Things Considered host. She also produces the Jefferson Exchange segments My Better Half - exploring how people are thriving in the second half of their lives - and The Creative Way, which profiles regional artists.