Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a Tony Award-winning musical with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Richard Morris and Scanlan. Based on the 1967 film of the same name. The style of the musical is comic pastiche. The musical premiered on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre on April 18, 2002 and closed on June 20, 2004 after 903 performances and 32 previews.

Set in New York City in 1922, ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ concerns a young girl, Millie Dillmount, from Kansas 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. Her grand plan is to find a job as a secretary for a wealthy man and then marry him. However, her plan goes completely awry. The owner of her dingy hotel kidnaps young girls to sell to the Far East; her wealthy boss is slow in proposing marriage; and the man she actually falls in love with doesn’t have a dime to his name – or so he tells her.