It's been a fun week for us here at PopSugar — not only did we get to chat with Emmuanelle Chriqui, but we were also lucky enough to interview Haylie Duff! She's been busy hosting Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search For Elle Woods on MTV, but she took a few minutes out of her busy schedule to answer our questions about the show, working with Hilary, and more. Here's what she had to say:
PopSugar: What is the most exciting thing about being on Broadway? Haylie Duff: I think the most exciting thing about Broadway is the audiences everyday. It’s so funny because the show changes so much just based on who is sitting in the audience and the kind of responses you get. Sometimes you have really loud audiences that laugh at everything, and sometimes you have audiences that are quieter and are just kind of taking in the whole experience. As a performer, you’re like, “are we not as funny today, are we not doing it as good as we usually do it?” But then the response at the end of the night will be huge applause and things like that. I think that’s the most exciting part – how different each show is.
PS: What is your role in helping choose the next star of Legally Blonde? HD: I’m fortunate enough to not have to choose who the next girl is gonna be. I don’t do any of the judging or eliminating. I’m strictly there to serve as supporter and as someone to encourage them and to push them and to, you know, remind them that all the hard work and everything that’s difficult they’re going through is worth all the different experiences that they’re on the verge of having.
To see what else Haylie said about working with Hilary and to read the rest of the interview, just
Earlier this month, crushing rains left 20 people dead and over 20,000 stranded when overwhelming rainfall left five feet of standing water in the low-lying areas. This is on top of already taxed landscapes that flooded when melting Himalayan glaciers burst the 200 rivers that web across the country last year. Bangladesh under water is seeming like a real and permanent possibility.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — whose claims are usually conservative — said that Bangladesh is heading to lose 17 percent of its land and 30 percent of its food production by 2050. That's like California and New York drowning, and the whole Midwest ceasing production of food.
If this happens, more than 20 million Bangladeshis will be without a patch of land to stand on. Though hardship in the country isn't entirely recent: since 1971, Bangladesh has endured over 200 disasters that have left a total of 500,000 dead and affected a total of 500 million people.
And I haven't even said anything about the plague of rats that's consuming all of their food. A plague of rats. I wish, wish there was more room for stories like this in the general consciousness — shouldn't we be hearing about this every night? Not to dwell on the gloomy, but just knowing about this makes the answer to this question pretty clear to me.
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