Artist:
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Genre: Theater
Background: The winner
of six 2002 Tony Awards including Best Musical,
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE is this season's
most awarded new show on Broadway. Based
on the 1967 Oscar-winning film, THOROUGHLY
MODERN MILLIE takes audiences back to the
height of the Jazz Age in New York City,
when "moderns" - including a flapper
named Millie Dillmount - were bobbing their
hair, raising their hemlines, entering the
workforce and rewriting the rules of love.
A delightful valentine to the longstanding
spirit of New York City and the people who
seek to discover themselves there, this
new stage version of THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
features 15 songs, including two from the
1967 film, four standards from the 1920s
and nine new songs by Jeanine Tesori (music)
and Dick Scanlan (lyrics).
If you're amongst those who have grumbled
about dark, too operatic musicals, Thoroughly
Modern Millie, offers a thoroughly enjoyable
antidote. Its aim is to be kick-up-your-heels,
entertaining. Towards that end it offers
up lots of peppy singing and dancing, neon
bright costumes and a reliably appealing
plot about a small town girl fulfilling
her dreams of modernity in Manhattan circa
the jazzy 1920s. Like The Producers, the
inspirational source is a 1960s movie. Like
that mega-hit, Millie manages to sidestep
its political incorrectness with goofy,
spoofy humor.
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