- AwardWinner, Best Musical, NODA West Midlands Region 7 (2014)
- Year
- 2014
- When
- April 2014
- Venue
- Dormston Mill Theatre, Sedgley
- Type
- Musical
- Photographs
- 104 in the gallery
Synopsis
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a high spirited musical romp that has all of New York dancing the Charleston. Taking place in New York City in 1922, it tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city in search of a new life for herself. It is a New York full of intrigue and jazz, a time when women were entering the workforce and the rules of love and social behaviour were changing forever. Based on the popular film, the stage version includes a full score of new songs and bright dance numbers. Filled with frisky flappers, dashing leading men and a dragon lady of a villainess audiences will love to hate, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a perfectly constructed evening of madcap merriment.
From the company’s records
Described in the company history as one of the largest and most lavish productions Willenhall Musical Theatre Company had ever staged.
Who made it
Production team
- Producer/Director
- Andy Poulton
- Musical Director
- Phil James
- Choreographer
- Lindsey Grant
Cast
- Millie Dillmount
- Abbie Rai
- Jimmy Smith
- Will Phipps
- Miss Dorothy
- Jenna Guest
- Trevor Graydon
- Daniel Haddon
- Mrs Meers
- Kelly Ashman
- Ching Ho
- Matt Wirtz
- Bun Foo
- Matt Cullis
- Muzzy Van Hossmere
- Lucy-Ellen Parker
- Miss Flannery
- Jenni Rullan
- Ruth
- Sam King
- Gloria
- Lydia Lavill
- Alice
- Kim Smith
- Rita
- Felicity North
- Cora
- Grace Bradshaw
- Lucille
- Bethany North
- Ethel Peas
- Lindsey Grant
Everybody else
The rest of the names the company’s records carry for this production, on stage and off it.
Chorus23
John Arnold, Vicky Bird, Rachel Coleman, Beth Coleman, Lizzie Corbett, Kay Corbett, Sue Dorward, Philip Field, Val Fullwood, Jessica Goodwin, Charlotte Hazlehurst, Alicia Helen-Nelson, Colin Hunt, Barbara King, Laura Leo, Andrew Newton, Faraz Rafiq, Alf Rai, Abbie Sellick, Helen Stone, James Totney, Grace Walters, John Wiley
Non-acting members23
Brenda Arnold, Peter Arnold, Arthur Bate, Carol Burgess, Dorothy Copson, Alec Corbett, Terry Corbett, Rob Dixon, Jill Hodgkins, Christine Hunt, Trevor Law, Alan Merrick, Betty Merrick, Andy Poulton, Tamason Poulton, Megan Rai, Nikki Rai, Pat Small, Bryan Smith, Eileen Southall, Chris Spittle, Brian White, Wendy White
The running order
Every number, in the order the programme printed them.
Act one
Not for the life of me
Millie
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Millie, Moderns
Not for the Life of Me Tag
Millie, Lucille, Rita, Alice, Cora, Gloria, Ruth
How the Other Half Lives
Millie, Miss Dorothy
How the Other Half Lives Tag
Millie, Miss Dorothy
Not for the Life of Me Reprise
Ching Ho, Bun Foo
The Speed Test
Mr. Graydon, Millie, Miss Flannery, Ensemble
They Don't Know
Mrs. Meers
The Nutty Cracker Suite
Jimmy, Millie, Miss Dorothy, Ensemble
What Do I Need With Love
Jimmy
Only in New York
Muzzy
Jimmy
Millie
Act two
Forget About the Boy
Millie, Miss Flannery, Ensemble
Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life/I'm Falling in Love with Someone
Mr Graydon, Miss Dorothy
I Turned the Corner
Jimmy, Millie
Falling in Love Reprise
Millie, Jimmy, Mr. Graydon, Miss Dorothy
Muqin
Mrs. Meers, Bun Foo, Ching Ho
Muqin Tag
Mrs. Meers
Long as I'm Here with You
Muzzy, Millie, Muzzy's Boys
Long as I'm Here Playoff
Muzzy's Boys
Gimme Gimme
Millie
Gimme Gimme Tag
Mr. Graydon
The Speed Test Reprise
Millie, Mr. Graydon, Muzzy, Jimmy
Ah! Sweet Mystery Reprise
Miss Dorothy, Ching Ho
Finale
Jimmy, Miss Dorothy, Moderns
Bows
All
What the reviewers wrote
Short extracts only. The full notices remain the work of the writers and the papers that published them.
“The staging was imaginative and fast paced and the singing was excellent backed up by a first class orchestra.”
“In her first lead role for the company, Abbie Rai gives a remarkably assured performance as the bubbly ambitious New York office worker Millie Dillmount.”
“Daniel Haddon was extremely funny as Millie's boss Trevor Graydon, he has a couple of terrific songs, and Jenna Guest was perfectly cast as Millie's friend Miss Dorothy.”
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