Hayley Tamaddon and Lucas Rush star in the 2018 UK touring production of the musical comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie which kicks off this week at the Richmond Theatre. Former Emmerdale and Coronation Street regular Tamaddon who has appeared on stage in hit tours of shows including Chicago, Spamalot and The Rocky Horror Show takes on […]
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Hayley Tamaddon to star in Thoroughly Modern Millie 2018 tour
Former soap star Hayley Tamaddon will take on the title role in the 2018 UK touring production of the musical comedy of Thoroughly Modern Millie. Following on from last year’s highly successful tour, the production will be back on the road next year opening at the Richmond Theatre on 27 March. Tamaddon, who has appeared […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie – Milton Keynes Theatre and Touring
Thoroughly Modern Millie continues at Milton Keynes Theatre until 28 January before touring until 24 June. Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ It’s ironic really that at the core of Thoroughly Modern Millie is a character who lives for being a ‘modern’ and keeping up with current trends, and yet the show is so […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie tour – further cast details
Further details have been revealed for the 2017 UK touring production of the musical comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie. Opening on Tuesday 17 January at the New Wimbledon Theatre, the production stars Strictly Come Dancing’s Joanne Clifton as Millie with former soap star Michelle Collins as the sinister Mrs Meers in the show until Saturday 4 […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie – Guildford School of Acting
Thoroughly Modern Millie was performed by final-year undergraduate students at Guildford School of Acting at the Ivy Arts Centre, Guildford. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Any stage production of Richard Morris, Dick Scanlan, and Jeanine Tesori’s Thoroughly Modern Millie inevitably calls to mind the 1967 film on which the theatrical adaptation […]
Michelle Collins to join Modern Millie UK tour
Former soap star Michelle Collins will join Strictly Come Dancing’s Joanne Clifton in next year’s UK touring production of the musical comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie which is due to open in January 2017. Collins, who starred in both Coronation Street and EastEnders before returning to the stage in hit shows including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie UK tour stars Strictly’s Joanne Clifton
Thoroughly Modern Millie is set to tour the UK in 2017, opening at the New Wimbledon Theatre on Tuesday 17 January. World ballroom showdance champion and professional dancer Joanne Clifton (Strictly Come Dancing) will take on the title role of Millie Dillmount, a Kansas girl determined to make it big in New York City. Clifton’s credits […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie – Kilworth House Theatre
Thoroughly Modern Millie continues at the Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 11 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Kilworth House Theatre delivers yet another outstanding summer production at its Leicestershire open-air auditorium. One of two annual large scale stagings (the former being Matthew White’s excellent West Side Story) Stephen Mear’s Thoroughly Modern Millie […]
Interview – Matthew Iliffe – up and coming director of The Burnt Part Boys
Up and coming director MATTHEW ILIFFE has taken charge of the European premiere of the Off-Broadway hit musical The Burnt Part Boys at London’s Park90 until 3 September. Matthew, whose directing credits include last year’s production of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Landor Theatre and Precious Little Talent (Gobstoppers Festival, The Albany) is also the co-founder of new writing […]
Wicked’s Steph Parry presents one-woman show
West End favourite Steph Parry (Wicked, Mamma Mia!, Billy Elliot, Thoroughly Modern Millie) is to take centrestage with a one-woman show for one night only in London next month. The Welsh-born singer and actress, who is currently appearing in the smash hit musical Wicked at London’s Apollo Victoria, will step into the distinctive surroundings of The […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie at Kilworth House Theatre – more details
Casting details have been announced for Kilworth House Theatre’s production of Thoroughly Modern Millie which is due to open at the distinctive Leicestershire venue on 16 August. The second production in the theatre’s 10th anniversary season will be directed and choreographed by Stephen Mear. Mear and producer Celia Mackay this week announced the lead cast of Michelle Francis […]
Kilworth House Theatre presents West Side Story this summer
Casting has been announced for Kilworth House Theatre’s upcoming production of the classic musical West Side Story . Liam Doyle will star as Tony with Laila Zaidi as his Maria. Other leading roles will be played by Sophia Ragavelas (Anita), Justin Thomas (Bernardo), Benjamin Yates (Riff), Dermot Canavan (Doc/Krupe) and Nicholas Tizzard (Schrank). The cast […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie – Landor Theatre
Thoroughly Modern Millie continues at the Landor Theatre, London until 13 September. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Of all the wonderful old musicals out there, why pick this clunker of a show for a Fringe revival? It defies belief that Thoroughly Modern Millie won six Tonys on Broadway, where she ran for 903 performances in […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Landor – casting news
A new production of Thoroughly Modern Millie, presented by SDWC Productions, at the Landor Theatre (Tuesday 18 August to Sunday 13 September, press night is Wednesday 26 August), marks the show’s return to London, 12 years after it was first seen at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Based on the original movie, the stage musical was originally […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie Off-West End premiere postponed to 2015
The Off-West End premiere of the six-time Tony Award-winning tap dancing musical Thoroughly Modern Millie is being postponed to 2015. Due to star Russell Grant as the mysterious and sinister Mrs Meers and American actress Molly Marie Walsh in the title role of Millie Dillmount, Thoroughly Modern Millie was booked to play at London’s Theatro Technis from 1–25 […]
American actress Molly Marie Walsh stars opposite Russell Grant in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Mollie Marie Walsh will play the title role of Millie Dillmount alongside Russell Grant as the devious Mrs Meers in the Off-West End premiere of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie (playing at Theatro Technis from 1-25 October, press night is 7 October). Thoroughly Modern Millie, with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan and a book by […]
Russell Grant plays Mrs Meers in fringe premiere of Modern Millie
Russell Grant, star of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, is to star as the mysterious and sinister Mrs Meers in the UK fringe premiere of the six-time Tony Award-winning tap dancing musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Thoroughly Modern Millie, with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, […]
Sutton Foster – Cafe Carlyle, New York
Sutton Foster is performing at the Café Carlyle, New York until 28 September. There aren’t many performers these days who merit the old-time appellation ‘a toast of Broadway’, but Sutton Foster is certainly one of them. Foster toiled away in four Broadway shows before her career-making Tony-winning lead performance in Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002. […]
