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Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie

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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.

Opened
2002
Performances
903
Type
Musical
Era
Modern
Music: Jeanine TesoriLyrics: Dick ScanlanBook: Richard Morris & Dick Scanlan

Productions3 on Broadway

1956 Transfer Theatre not recorded. · predates this show
2002 Marquis Theatre Original. April 18, 2002 · Michael Mayer 903 performances · 6 Tony wins
2004 Transfer Theatre not recorded.

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Thoroughly Modern Millie matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature36 passages

Ashford, Rob Curtains Promises, Promises Thoroughly Modern Millie Wedding Singer, The book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

she spent 2003-2004 as Muzzy van Hossmere in Thoroughly Modern Millie, utterly ageless. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p217

By the time she did the movie Thoroughly Modern Millie in 1967, she was exhibiting the early signs of Alzheimer’s Disease, which she would battle for the next twenty-five years. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p233

Many librettists are also noted lyricists, including Rida Johnson Young, Dorothy Donnelly, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Dorothy Fields, Alan Jay Lerner, Alain Boublil, and Lynn Ahrens. Successful musical librettos have included social or political satires (Of Thee I Sing [1931], Ur… book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p229

Tesori’s early Broadway credits were as a dance arranger for the 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying and the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music. But it is as a composer of the scores for Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002) and Caroline, or Change (2004) that she has become best known. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p385

Tesori, perhaps the most wide-ranging musician of the five, followed her Off Broadway debut, Violet, with three different kinds of Broadway productions: a musical comedy, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002), a musical drama for which Tony Kushner wrote the book and lyrics, Caroline, or Change, and an animated movical, Shre… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p717

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