The Search For Elle - Part 6

Ah, the trials of an actress trying to break into Broadway. On this week's episode of Legally Blonde: The Musical: The Search for Elle, the five remaining actors (out of the original 10) once again faced three challenges.

For the first challenge, they went to a salon for a makeover, and that meant the two actors who were not already blonde had a change of color. Autumn lost her beautiful red hair, and Natalie went from brunette to blonde. I had to laugh when Bailey cried because they trimmed a tiny amount of her hair - not to be cruel, but as you can tell from my photo on the right there, don't be complaining about your bad haircut to me. ;-)

Anyway, from there the actors met and chatted with Laura Bell Bundy, who will soon be giving up the lead role in the musical. Then they had a photo shoot, with the one chosen as the best getting a date with Andy Karl, one of the actors from the musical.

The final challenge - and the most important one - was singing the "Legally Blonde" ballad, one of the most emotional songs from the show. It was a great chance for each actor to show her vocal and emotional range, and since we're down to five contestants, we got to see a healthy section of of each audition.

The judges seem to like Autumn a lot, and this audition shows why - her emotions poured out, and her voice was powerful. In fact, she was the only one who had an outstanding audition - the others seemed to struggle, and Rhiannon hit a bad note (though she quickly recovered).

The final decision came down to the three pictured above (as always, the photo is courtesy MTV) - Bailey, Rhiannon and Natalie.

It seems unfair that Natalie got cut right after becoming blonde, but I suspect her height was the real problem - she was the shortest of the group by several inches. That leaves us with four candidates. If I was a betting man, I'd say it'll come down to Bailey and Autumn - but given my track record for predicting these things, I'm probably way off. We'll see!