Serious

So the ending of last night's episode of "Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for Elle Woods" was intense, wasn't it? Of course, I'm getting ahead of myself...

The girls sent to the casting room return sans Lindsey. There are tears and hugs as the show starts to reveal some of the friendships between the girls. There's tiny Autumn hugging tall Celina while Natalie asks if Emma needs to talk since Lindsey was eliminated. Apparently, they were close. Naturally, the question "What did they say?" gets asked. Unfortunately, it is asked by Cassie S. So the girls then turn it into a confrontation that would've made Tyra Banks proud had it been on America's Next Top Model. The girls tell her how upset they were over the fact she "threw them under a bus" at judging. They also tell her that she takes everything personally and that she is ostracizing herself. Cassie S cries that she doesn't know how to relate to girls and doesn't have any girlfriends. Now, while I myself and some of my girlfriends prefer our male friends over our female ones, I still have girlfriends. And I also feel that Cassie's cattiness doesn't help things much either.

The next day, the girls get their call sheet and go off to meet...Teddy and BooBoo who play "Bruiser" in the show. The dogs also brought along their trainers, who teach the girls how to interact with the dogs on stage. Haylie Duff tells the girls that they will be having a sleepover with the dogs like Laura Bell so they can bond. The challenge winner will be the girl who bonds the best with the dogs. Most of the girls do. Cassie S bombs. Autumn is chosen as the winner and she brings Celina along as a friend. They go to a doggie boutique where they are met by Richard (H) Blake, who plays Warner in Legally Blonde the Musical. While I'm wondering why they keep dropping the initial, I still friggin' love him! I've seen him in three different musicals: "Hairspray" (Link), "The Wedding Singer" (Glen) and, of course, Legally Blonde. After the cast was announced, Broadway.com did a video interview the actors and Blake aptly noted that he usually plays the jerk boyfriend. But I still love him. His wife is so lucky!

Meanwhile, Emma our ex-smoker has developed a cough which worries her as the next audition is coming up. And what will our Elle Wannabes be performing? The song "Serious" with Richard (H) Blake! The ahmahzing Seth Rudetsky continues to help them while apparently still rocking his 70's hairdo from "The Ritz." He and the assistant choreographer helps the girl nail the part where Warner tells Elle he is dumping her, not proposing. Now, they've been showing this clip for a long time: Seth telling a girl that "none of the judges wanted [her] back." I kept thinking, "How could you be so mean, Seth?" The girl though is revealed to be Bailey and when put into context, I could now tell that it was meant to help her realize Elle's devestation at that moment even before he said "Just kidding." After her rehearsal, Emma rushes to the doctor's, who tells her she has bronchitis but Emma is determined to do the audition anyway.

At the auditions, the following girls nailed it: Emma, Lauren, and Natalie. Bailey and Rhiannon were okay. They were the safe ones. Celina, Cassie S and Autumn found themselves being sent to the casting office. Cassie S complained about it in confessional, saying she was working "her ass off" and that she did pretty good for "not having seen the material before." The HELL? She's trying out for the show and she didn't even watch it? I mean, I understand it's expensive to come to New York City and see a musical. But MTV taped it and aired it a good month before auditions. Would it have killed her to watch it once? Then in the casting office, she was told she would be a good understudy or swing because she still had much to learn. She whined, "But that's not going to make me a star!" Neither is that attitude, honey. And in response to Celina's defense, bookwriter and judge Heather Hach utters my favorite line of the series: "What part of you thinks that Legally Blonde is about being subtle?" And poor Autumn uses the "I had a bad day" excuse, which flys as far as "I've never done/had/been _____ before" does on America's Next Top Model. Celina is unceremoniously cut and tells Autumn to win it for her.

But wait, there's more! The judges inform Cassie S and Autumn that they will be doing a double elimination and sending another one of them home. And then they cut Cassie S. It wasn't too surprising because Autumn was the stronger of the two and not as arrogant. But Cassie S was the bitch. They are usually kept around for drama. Oh well, now someone else has to be the bitch.

And the producers seemed to have realized this as next week's challenge has the girls picking out the weakest among them. And Autumn runs out of the audition apparently.