From Wikipedia:
Legally Blonde is a 2007 musical with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and a book by Heather Hach. It is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of the same name.

The show tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner. She discovers how her knowledge of the law can help others, and she successfully defends exercise queen Brooke Wyndham in a murder trial. Throughout the show, very few characters have faith in Elle, but she manages to surprise them when she defies expectations while staying true to herself.

Legally Blonde premiered in pre-Broadway tryouts in San Francisco, California. In April 2007 the show moved to Broadway, opening to mixed reviews and disappointing sales.[1] Jerry Mitchell directed and choreographed. The original cast starred Laura Bell Bundy as Elle, Christian Borle as Emmett, and Richard H. Blake as Warner. It received seven Tony nominations and ten Drama Desk nominations but did not win any. The West End production opened in January 2010 at the Savoy Theatre. The West End production was nominated for five Laurence Olivier Awards and won three, including the Best New Musical award.

The musical was recorded in September 2007 and aired on MTV in October 2007. Following this, a reality television program aired showing the audition process for the next person to play Elle Woods on Broadway. The winner was Bailey Hanks, who played the role from July 23, 2008, until the production closed on October 19, 2008.[2]

The Delaware Hayes Thespian Troupe is a group of student thespians who attend or live in the Delaware City School District. Most of our students attend Rutherford B. Hayes High School, though some of our students attend the Delaware Area Career Center, attend Post Secondary or College Credit Plus Classes, or are home schooled within the district. 

The Hayes Thespians were founded as an official Troupe within the International Thespian Society in 1940 and has a history of performing high quality theatre productions for the city of Delaware, Ohio.  All of the past productions were staged in the Willis Auditorium until the new auditorium was added to Rutherford B. Hayes High School in 1997. The list of past musical productions dating back to 1973 can be found in our annual spring musical program, however in the last decade or so  it includes fabulous productions such as:

2009 Fiddler on the Roof
2010 Guys and Dolls
2011 The Phantom of the Opera
2012 Legally Blonde: The Musical
2013 Hello, Dolly!
2014 Anything Goes
2014 You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
2015 Footloose
2016 Les Miserables
2017 Damn Yankees!
2018 Shrek The Musical
2019 Mary Poppins
2020* Chicago High School Edition
2021* Little Women
2022 Bye Bye Birdie
2023 The Spongebob Musical
2024 Legally Blonde: The Musical

*Chicago High School Edition and Little Women were not staged in front of a live audience due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Alternative performance types were used for these productions. 

The Hayes Thespians also perform one fall play every year that takes place around the month of October. Our typical season involves a fall play and a spring musical that is performed in March. Occasionally an additional show is added in a year, however, this is not a regular occurrence. Shows which occurred at different times in the same year are indicated below. 

 In the past, play productions performed by the Hayes Thespians have included shows such as:

2015 (Spring) The Ugly Duckling and The Frog Prince One Acts
2015 (Fall)  Harvey
2016 Our Town
2017 Arsenic and Old Lace
2018 Noises Off
2019 The Crucible
2020 Digital Monologue Showcase*
2021 (Fall) Alice in Wonderland
2021 (Winter) A Charlie Brown Christmas
2022 Almost, Maine
2023 The Great Gatsby

*In 2020, in lieu of a full play production, a digital monologue showcase was put together and premiered for a very limited time on YouTube. This was done because of restrictions due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.