Lee Mead Joins Legally Blonde in London

Lee Mead will step into the shoes of Harvard law teaching assistant Emmett Forrest in the West End production of Legally Blonde at the Savoy Theatre. Mead will begin performances in mid-June, when he takes over the role from the current Emmett, Alex Gaumond.

Mead was the champion of BBC One's reality casting show Any Dream Will Do, after which he played the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He was most recently seen on the West End as Fiyero in Wicked; previous theatre credits include Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Tommy.

Mead will join a cast that stars Susan McFadden as Elle Woods, Carley Stenson as Margot, Nicola Brazil as Serena, Siobhan Dillon as Vivienne and Peter Davison as Professor Callahan.

Directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, Legally Blonde features music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach, set design by David Rockwell, costume design by Gregg Barnes, lighting design by Kenneth Posner and Paul Miller, sound design by ACME Sound Partners and orchestrations by Christopher Jahnke.