‘Legally Blonde’ to become musical

Hollywood continues to give its regards -- and sell its properties -- to Broadway. “Legally Blonde” is being turned into a stage musical retelling the story of a Bel-Air sorority queen (played on screen by Reese Witherspoon) who matriculates at Harvard Law School to pursue the boyfriend who dumped her.

Jerry Mitchell, whose Broadway credits include “Hairspray” and “The Full Monty” -- two other stage musicals remade from movies -- will direct and choreograph; the score is by Larry O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin. Meanwhile, Estelle Parsons is set to star in a musical stage adaptation of the 1972 cult film “Harold and Maude,” premiering in January at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse. The creators are Tom Jones (“The Fantasticks”) and composer Joseph Thalken.