Joanne Clifton and Michelle Collins set for Thoroughly Modern Millie | Cast Confirmed

David King for Spirit Productions Ltd presents

 

BROADWAY’S MULTI AWARD WINNING MUSICAL COMEDY

 

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

 

TO TOUR THE UK IN 2017

 

WITH STRICTLY COME DANCING’S JOANNE CLIFTON AS MILLIE

LEADING TELEVISION AND STAGE ACTRESS MICHELLE COLLINS AS MRS MEERS

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Award winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie is set to tour the UK in 2017 opening at New Wimbledon Theatre on Tuesday 17 January.

2016 Strictly Come Dancing finalist, World Ballroom Showdance Champion and Professional Dancer Joanne Clifton will take on the title role of Millie Dillmount, a Kansas girl determined to make it big in New York City! Joanne’s credits include Face the Music, Burn the Floor, Strictly Live Tour and Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jeane Musical.

Michelle Collins will join the cast of Thoroughly Modern Millie until Saturday 4 March as Mrs Meers. She has worked extensively in television and theatre for the last 30 years and is perhaps best known for her roles as Cindy Beale in EastEnders and Stella Price in Coronation Street. Her theatre credits include Calendar Girls (West End), The Play What I Wrote (West End), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour) and most recently Kindertransport (Chickenshed, London).

The cast is completed by Sam Barrett (Jimmy Smith), Graham McDuff (Trevor Graydon), Katherine Glover (Miss Dorothy), Jenny Fitzpatrick (Muzzy), Catherine Mort (Miss Flannery), Damian Buhagiar (Ching Ho), Andy Yau (Bun Foo), Emma Housley, David Muscat, Alice Baker, Lottie Summers, Laura Marie Benson, Bobby Williams, Marios Nicolaides and Laura Wilson.

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie is based on the 1967 Academy Award-winning film. Taking you back to the height of the Jazz Age in 1920s New York City, when ‘moderns’ including a flapper named Millie Dillmount were bobbing their hair, raising their hemlines, entering the workforce and rewriting the rules of love.

From explosive tap numbers to a ‘Fred and Ginger’ dance routine on a window ledge, and featuring hit songs including Gimme Gimme, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Not for the Life of Me Thoroughly Modern Millie is a brilliantly funny and entertaining show for all the family.

Tickets for Thoroughly Modern Millie are on sale now.

 

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THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

 

Book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan

New Music by Jeanine Tesori

New Lyrics by Dick Scanlan

Original Story and Screenplay by Richard Morris for the Universal Pictures Film

Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe) Limited

Director and Choreographer Racky Plews

Musical Director Robert Wicks

Casting Director Sue Talbert

Celebrity Casting Advisor Bambi Haines

Executive Producer David King

Lead Producer Graham King

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE – 2017 UK TOUR DATES

Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 January                                            Box Office: 0844 871 7646

New Wimbledon Theatre                                                             Website: www.atgtickets.com

Tuesday 24 – Saturday 28 January                                            Box Office: 0844 871 7652

Milton Keynes Theatre                                                                  Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 30 January – Saturday 4 February                           Box Office: 0844 871 3014

Edinburgh Playhouse                                                                     Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 6 – Saturday 11 February                                            Box Office: 0844 871 7648

Glasgow, King’s Theatre                                                               Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 13 – Saturday 18 February                                          Box Office: 0844 871 3011

Birmingham, Alexandra Theatre                                                Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 20 – Saturday 25 February                                          Box Office: 0844 871 3017

Liverpool, Empire Theatre                                                            Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 27 February – Saturday 4 March                              Box Office: 0844 871 3024

York, Grand Opera House                                                            Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 6 – Saturday 11 March                                                 Box Office: 01494 512 000

High Wycombe, Swan Theatre                                                   Website: www.wycombeswan.co.uk

Monday 20 – Saturday 25 March                                               Box Office: 023 9282 8282

Southsea, King’s Theatre                                                              Website: www.kingsportsmouth.co.uk

Monday 27 March – Saturday 1 April                                       Box Office: 0844 871 7607

Aylesbury, Waterside Theatre                                                   Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 3 – Saturday 8 April                                                       Box Office: 0844 871 7650

Brighton, Theatre Royal                                                                Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 10 – Saturday 15 April                                                   Box Office: 01322 220000

Dartford, Orchard Theatre                                                           Website: www.orchardtheatre.co.uk

Monday 17 – Saturday 22 April                                                   Box Office: 0844 848 2700

Leeds Grand Theatre                                                                     Website: www.leedsgrandtheatre.com

Monday 8 – Saturday 13 May                                                     Box Office: 0844 871 7645

Woking, New Victoria Theatre                                                   Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 22 – Saturday 27 May                                                   Box Office: 0844 871 3019

Manchester, Palace Theatre                                                       Website: www.atgtickets.com

Monday 5 – Saturday 10 June                                                     Box Office: 020 3285 6000

Bromley, Churchill Theatre                                                          Website:  www.churchilltheatre.co.uk

Monday 19 – Saturday 24 June                                                  Box Office: 0844 871 3012

Bristol Hippodrome                                                                         Website: www.atgtickets.com

More dates to be announced soon.