Lucy Moss
(Picture: Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures Ltd)Lucy Moss will admit it: she got Elle Woods-ed. What was she going to do for her first major solo project since Six, the musical colossus that she co-wrote with her friend Toby Marlow at uni, and which has since made her the youngest female director ever on Broadway? (and, days after we speak, the co-nominee for eight, yes eight Tony Awards). When Timothy Sheader, artistic director of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, asked her if she’d fancy directing Legally Blonde the Musical, she wasn’t so sure.
“I was like... oh, I don’t know if that’s going to be my vibe,” Moss, 28, tells me. “It’s definitely unfair, but I feel like there’s a reputation of commercial film adaptations of musicals, of them just being made to make cash, and having no artistic merit.”
