For my final performance in Basics of Singing, I will be performing the song "Ireland" from Legally Blonde the Musical. This musical premiered on February 2, 2007 at the Palace Theater in New York City. Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin brought Amanda Brown's novel and the film Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to new, singing, dancing life. “Ireland” is a piece that presents a different side of a character, Paulette, who is not seen or noticed in either the film or the book. This different side of Paulette is why I chose the song. “Ireland” is present about halfway through the show, towards the end of the first act. Up until this point, Elle Woods, a fashion merchandising student and president of the Delta-Nu sorority at UCLA, is greeted with a huge shock. Her boyfriend, Warner Huntington the Third, who she expects to propose to her, tells her he wants to leave her because "she's not serious enough." Elle, outraged, decides that love knows no limits and must follow Warner into his graduate program at Harvard Law School. He ruins the rest of his second semester senior year party style by studying to pass the L-SATs and get accepted into Harvard too. Upon arrival, he finds that Warner has already proposed to a former childhood sweetheart, who was also accepted into their same law program. Furious, Elle decides that if it's this boring, old-fashioned brunette that Warner wants, then she must change her appearance, just to win him back. ("...The movie or the book...") She goes to a salon not too far from school, where Paulette, a hairdresser, convinces her that brunette is not the way to go. Paulette sings "Ireland" to Elle to convince her that she is beautiful just the way she is and doesn't need to change... middle of paper... in front of everyone before performing at the Cabaret on the second. Works Cited“American Theater Wing - Biography - Laurence O'Keefe." American Theater Wing - Biography - Laurence O'Keefe. American Theater Wing, 2014. Web. Apr. 2014. ."Legally Blonde - Which is better: the film or the Book?" Review. Web log post. Wordpress, October 23, 2012. Web, April 2014. "Legally Blonde the Musical." Legally Blonde Tour. Np, 2012. Web. April 2014. "The Dynamic Duo: Nell Benjamin and Larry O'Keefe." Berklee Blog. Berklee College of Music, May 16, 2013. Web. April. 2014. .