Natalie Casey to Join London's Legally Blonde as Paulette

Natalie Casey will join the West End cast of the Olivier Award-winning musical Legally Blonde on April 26 as ditzy beautician Paulette Buonofonté, replacing Denise Van Outen, who will give her final performance on April 23. The hit musical opened at the Savoy Theatre in December 2009 and is now booking through March 31, 2012.

Casey joins a cast that includes Susan McFadden as Elle Woods, Alex Gaumond at Emmett Forrest, Carley Stenson as Margot, Nicola Brazil as Serena, Siobhan Dillon as Vivienne and Peter Davison as Professor Callahan. Lee Mead is set to join the company in mid-June as Emmett.

Based on the hit film, Legally Blonde centers on college sweetheart Elle Woods, doesn't take no for an answer. So when her boyfriend Warner dumps her for someone “serious,” Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and heads for Harvard Law! The show features music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach and is directed by Jerry Mitchell.

Casey is best known for playing Donna in the BBC’s Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. On stage, she has been seen in The Invisible Man at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Oklahoma! for Chichester Festival Theatre, Well at the Apollo Theatre, Fame at the Shaftesbury Theatre and Hobson’s Choice at the Watermill Theatre.