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Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast) Original Broadway Cast CD
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  • Artist: Original Broadway Cast
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2002
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 090266395927
  • Item Number: BMG639592
  • Release date: 06/11/2002
  • 1. Overture
  • 2. Not for the Life of Me
  • 3. Thoroughly Modern Millie (for the film "Thoroughly Modern Millie")
  • 4. Not for the Life of Me (reprise)
  • 5. How the Other Half Lives
  • 6. Not for the Life of Me (reprise)
  • 7. The Speed Test (after Sir Arthur Sullivan)
  • 8. They Don't Know
  • 9. The Nuttycracker Suite
  • 10. What Do I Need with Love?
  • 11. Only In New York
  • 12. Jimmy (for the musical play "Thoroughly Modern Millie")
  • 13. Back at Work
  • 14. Forget About The Boy
  • 15. Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life / I'm Falling in Love with Someone (after Vic
  • 16. I Turned the Corner / I'm Falling in Love with Someone (after Victor H
  • 17. Muquin (after "Mammy")
  • 18. Long as I'm Here With You
  • 19. Gimme Gimme
  • 20. Finale (after Jimmy Van Heusen)
  • 21. Final Bows
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It has been observed that Broadway has long since become a group of virtual repertory theaters in which revivals of successful musicals from decades past rule the roost. The next-best thing to an outright revival, perhaps, is a "new" show based on old material and employing at least some of the old music. The Producers, the hit of the 2000-2001 season, fits that description, and so does the hit of the 2001-2002 season, Thoroughly Modern Millie. The work began as a movie musical written as a vehicle for Julie Andrews in 1967, using mostly vintage music true to its 1922 setting, but with a title song by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen and a few other newly written Jazz Age-style numbers. The trifle of a plot, about a small-town girl coming to the big city to seek a rich husband (ho-hum), was just an excuse to parade flapper costumes through production numbers. Although it tapped into a brief vogue for the 1920s in the mid-'60s, the film was more a curiosity than anything else. But young Dick Scanlon seems to have been entranced, and he eventually talked screenwriter Richard Morris into collaborating on a stage version. He also wrote lyrics to a bunch of new songs with Jeanine Tesori. The result remains weightless and retro, the best songs being the originals (which means Jay Thompson's "Jimmy" and Victor Herbert's "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," in addition to the title song). Gilbert & Sullivan and Tchaikovsky are also referenced. The cast is led by the aggressive Sutton Foster, who seems to be channeling film co-star Mary Tyler Moore, not Andrews. This is not a musical likely to be worthy of revival itself in 35 years, but it is deeply in Broadway tradition, a throwback to an earlier, sillier time. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi
  • Artist: Original Broadway Cast
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2002
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 090266395927
  • Item Number: BMG639592
  • Release date: 06/11/2002
  • Label: RCA
  • Genre: Stage & Screen, Classical
  • Style: Cast Recordings, Contemporary
  • Album Time: 58:32

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  • Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast) Original Broadway Cast CD
Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast) Original Broadway Cast CD