Mack 'n' Millie Review ofThoroughly Modern Millieby
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Advantages: happy musical, good night out Disadvantages: pricey but worth it!
Well here is a fact for you. The Mack likes the theatre. In fact she loves it. As she hadn’t attended a show since the summer, as a treat to herself she thought she’d book to see one of the new musicals in town, ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’.
* Booking *
As I’m fortunate (or unfortunate, depends how you look at it!) to work in London, I went along to the box office at the Shaftesbury theatre to book my tickets.
We were 3 rows from the front, ...
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Advantages: Totally and utterly entertaining! Disadvantages: Prices for the seats at the back!
...to see Amanda Holden in Thoroughly Modern Millie in the West End.”
“OK. That’s settled then – anything else?”
“Nope. I think that’ll do for now, that’s probably quite enough for you to be getting on with!”
She’s getting more fanatical than me – I’m actually really rather worried…
***THE THEATRE***
The Princes Theatre was the last theatre to be built on Shaftesbury Avenue and it opened on Boxing Day in 1911 with a production of ‘The ...
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Advantages: Entertaining brainless musical Disadvantages: Just not memorable
Thoroughly Modern Millie is a musical stage adaptation of the film musical of the same name. Currently playing in London's West End, it won 6 tonys and 4 drama desk awards on Broadway before opening in the Shaftesbury Theatre.
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The Plot
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Set in the roaring twenties, Millie (Amanda Holden) is a country girl who wants to make it big in the city. Her intended method of doing this is to marry a millionaire (in a rather ...
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