Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Which, yes, is how it typically works for most characters, but not in a vampire story.

Dade was a stage actor, as with most of the cast of this film, and she was actually Lorelei Lee in the touring company of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a role that would later be immortalized on screen by Marilyn Monroe.

That earned her a ticket to Hollywood, and she had a few movies before Dracula, like Raffles, based on the series about the Gentleman Thief, and Grumpy, which is not a biopic of the dwarf of the same name.

Post-Dracula, she appeared in a few other films, including a Fu Manchu movie called Daughter of the Dragon, but she married a wealthy socialite and retired from acting by 1932.

And it's, she, uh, she's massively a Broadway star.

She originated the lead role in, uh, Gentlemen Prefer Blonds.

Mm-hmm.

And she played Dolly in, uh, several times on Broadway.

It'll come to me when you say we'll be talking about our musical this week and then it'll come.

And other exciting news that was only announced this week too is that Broadway and West End stars Megan Hilty and Rachel Tucker are just starring in a brand new concert production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

in the London Palladium on the 26th and the 27th of March.

Clearly London's where it's to be in March next year.

Directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle.

I have never seen Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

No.

But I would go and see that.

Her name would be strung up on the billboards, and her picture would be splashed in the local papers, "Live this weekend, Lois Andrews." She was back to her roots, putting on the sequins and the girdles to entertain wealthy men who wanted to get away from their wives for a weekend.

Lois toured for a while in a stage production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, then did some rounds in bit parts in films like Meet Me After the Show and The Desert Hawk.

She was steady enough in work, but not where she wanted to be.

Lois' romantic relationships after George Jessel didn't seem to go much better.

Yes.

So coming up, we will be discussing Thelma and Louise, Abigail's Party, the new cast of Hadestown, as well as all the latest news about Annie, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Musical.Con, and lots more.

September's always busy.

Whole Foods Market can help.

As is Megan Hilty, another Broadway star, who she said when she did her London concerts recently, she said, I want to come back to London.

We're going to work out a way, work out something that we can do.

And then it was announced that she is joining forces with Rachel Tucker, Wicked Alumni Unite, absolutely and they're gonna do a concert staging of gentlemen prefer blondes at the london palladium directed by warren carlisle yeah for three performances only over two days it's gonna be

iconic genius iconic yeah and this this pairing of casting is insane they're about to sing the house down