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Musical Sunday!
Oct. 24th, 2010 04:40 pmWow, it's been a while since I did a Musical Sunday post. Partly it's because I've been obsessed with Next to Normal and so I haven't really thought about anything else. :) Also, I've been busy. But let's get back to it this week with a show I saw on Broadway a few (Ten? Yikes! Time flies) years ago - Thoroughly Modern Millie.
It's about a naive, small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to Manhattan in the Roaring '20s, hoping for a brand new life in a city that's on the cutting edge of modern. Her plan? Get a job as a stenographer and marry her wealthy boss. (This was apparently a novel idea in the 1920s, lol, although I couldn't help thinking of it while watching Mad Men, set 40 years later, when it's become a cliche.) Everything seems to be going swell until Millie falls for the penniless womanizer Jimmy Smith - and her boss falls in love with her new best friend, Dorothy. Then there's also a whole subplot about a white slavery ring that kidnaps Dorothy, and Millie has to rescue her, which in retrospect seems oddly serious, given the light-hearted tone of the show, lol.
The show has some fantastic (and creative) tap dancing - there's one number where the stenographers are typing and the tap dancing provides the sound of the typewriters. I have a total girl-crush on Sutton Foster, the original Millie on Broadway - OMG I love her voice! (Apparently, it's also a movie with Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore? I've never seen it, but now I kinda want to. Most of the songs are different from the stage musical, but that is the same opening number.) This is also the show with "What Do I Need With Love," which I keep thinking would make a brilliant Barney/Robin vid.
( More songs under the cut! )
It's about a naive, small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to Manhattan in the Roaring '20s, hoping for a brand new life in a city that's on the cutting edge of modern. Her plan? Get a job as a stenographer and marry her wealthy boss. (This was apparently a novel idea in the 1920s, lol, although I couldn't help thinking of it while watching Mad Men, set 40 years later, when it's become a cliche.) Everything seems to be going swell until Millie falls for the penniless womanizer Jimmy Smith - and her boss falls in love with her new best friend, Dorothy. Then there's also a whole subplot about a white slavery ring that kidnaps Dorothy, and Millie has to rescue her, which in retrospect seems oddly serious, given the light-hearted tone of the show, lol.
The show has some fantastic (and creative) tap dancing - there's one number where the stenographers are typing and the tap dancing provides the sound of the typewriters. I have a total girl-crush on Sutton Foster, the original Millie on Broadway - OMG I love her voice! (Apparently, it's also a movie with Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore? I've never seen it, but now I kinda want to. Most of the songs are different from the stage musical, but that is the same opening number.) This is also the show with "What Do I Need With Love," which I keep thinking would make a brilliant Barney/Robin vid.
( More songs under the cut! )
