Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Richard Morris and Scanlan. It is based on the 1967 film of the same name, which itself was based on the British musical Chrysanthemum, which opened in London in 1956. Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of a small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York City to marry for money instead of love – a thoroughly modern aim in 1922, when women were just entering the workforce. Millie soon begins to take delight in the flapper lifestyle, but problems arise when she checks into a hotel owned by the leader of a white slavery ring in China. The style of the musical is comic pastiche. Like the film on which it is based, it interpolates new tunes with some previously written songs. source: Wikipedia
Performances at Keefe Center for the Arts
117 Elm Street, Nashua, NH
Nov 9-11, 2007
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MUSICAL NUMBERS
Act I
- "Overture" — Orchestra
- "Not for the Life of Me" — Millie
- "Thoroughly Modern Millie" — Millie & Moderns
- "Not for the Life of Me” — Millie & the Hotel Girls
- "How the Other Half Lives" — Millie & Miss Dorothy
- "How the Other Half Lives (reprise)" - Millie and Miss Dorothy
- "Not for the Life of Me (Reprise)" — Bun Foo and Ching Ho
- "The Speed Test" — Trevor Graydon, Millie, Stenographers & Office Singers
- "They Don't Know" — Mrs. Meers
- "The Nuttycracker Suite" - Orchestra
- "What Do I Need with Love?" - Jimmy
- "Only in New York" — Muzzy
- "Jimmy" — Millie
Act II
- "Entr'acte" — Orchestra
- "Back at Work"- Millie, Miss Flannery, Women Office Singers
- "Forget About the Boy" — Millie, Miss Flannery, Women Office Singers, Stenographers
- "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life/Falling in Love with Someone" — Trevor Graydon and Miss Dorothy
- "I Turned the Corner/Falling in Love with Someone (Reprise)" — Millie, Jimmy, Miss Dorothy, Trevor Graydon
- "Muqin" — Mrs. Meers, Bun Foo, Ching Ho
- "Long as I'm Here with You" — Muzzy & Muzzy's Boys
- "Gimme Gimme" — Millie
- + "The Speed Test (Reprise)" — Millie, Trevor Graydon, Jimmy
- + "Ah! Sweet Mystery (Reprise)" — Miss Dorothy and Ching Ho
- "Thoroughly Modern Millie (Reprise)" — Jimmy, Miss Dorothy & Moderns
- "Curtain Call/Bows" — Cast
Book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan
New Music by Jeanine Tesori
New Lyrics by Dick Scanlan
Original story and screenplay by Richard Morris for the Universal Pictures film
