Thoroughly Modern Millie Auditions

The Theatre of Gadsden is proud to announce auditions for Thoroughly Modern Millie!  Please come out and audition and join in the fun of putting on a great performance with great people!  Should you want to help in other ways, we're always on the lookout for volunteers for costumes, set construction, stage hands, etc.  Please let us know if you want to help out!

 

Audition Dates:

 

Monday, May 9 at 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, May 10 at 6:00 p.m.

 

Auditions will be held at the Elliott Community Center Auditorium on Meighan Boulevard in Alabama City.  

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Performances will be July 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31. 

Director: Tina Gockel
Assistant Director: Danny Townsend
Music Director: Cheryl Moorer

Auditions will be Monday, May 9, and Tuesday, May 10 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Historic Ritz Theatre on Wall Street in Alabama City. Please come with a prepared song, either with sheet music or a CD backing track. Dance auditions will also be required. 

There is a large chorus in addition to the principal roles. We will also be looking for a chorus of strictly dancers. Heavy dance numbers are involved. Music is 1920s jazz style. 

Principal Roles:

Millie Dillmount (Mezzo-soprano): MILLIE is a very appealing, honest, feisty, and unique young woman. Undeterred by her Midwestern upbringing & naïveté, she arrives in New York determined to acquire big city sophistication and a rich husband. She is a pragmatist who dreams big.

Jimmy Smith (Tenor): An irrepressible, buoyant personality. Full of the headlines of the era -- classic Roaring Twenties – he loves to have a good time. JIMMY wants to be MILLIE's beau, but lacks an important credential: money. Despite his lack of finances, he possesses the ssurance, savvy, and poise of a well-born young man.

Trevor Graydon, III (Bass-baritone): MILLIE's boss, a knockout. The original Arrow Collar man with a yen for efficiency. He falls hard for MISS DOROTHY.

Miss Dorothy Brown (Soprano): MILLIE's best friend, a classic old-fashioned beauty who checks into the Priscilla looking for life, 'raw and real,' as preparation for a career on the stage. She has lived in a glass bubble of extreme wealth her entire life, but her cluelessness in the ways of the real world is in no way haughty or snobbish; in fact, it is her charm.

Mrs. Meers (Alto): Striking and sinister, with a barracuda smile. MRS. MEERS owns the Hotel Priscilla, Residence of Young Ladies -- a mere front for her highly profitable sideline, white slave trading.

Ching Ho (Tenor): An unwilling associate to MRS. MEERS, CHING HO falls hard for MISS DOROTHY and saves her from a life of prostitution in South East Asia.

Bun Foo (Tenor): One of two henchmen in the employ of MRS. MEERS' white slaving business. The brothers reluctantly help MRS. MEERS in exchange for bringing their mother to America.

Muzzy van Hossmere (Mezzo/Alto): Glamorous, big-hearted, fun loving, and wise. Think Pearl Bailey crossed with Josephine Baker. A diva who knows how to have a good time while never losing sight of what really matters in life: love.

Miss Flannery (Belter): Runs the office like a very tight ship for Trevor Graydon. Strong, loud and in charge.

Hotel Girls: Lucille, Rita, Alice, Gloria, Ruth, Mary, Ethel Peas; Aspiring actresses who are a tight knit group. They sing and dance often.


Synopsis:

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 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, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of a small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, 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. Millie soon begins to take delight in the flapper lifestyle, but problems arise when she checks into a hotel owned by the leader of a slavery ring in China.