Students from Northwest School of the Arts will perform Thoroughly Modern Millie March 12-14 at the Booth Playhouse in the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. There are shows scheduled nightly Friday and Saturday (March 12-13) at 7:30 p.m. and afternoon matinees on Saturday and Sunday (Mar. 13-14) at 2 p.m.
Tickets for the NWSA production of Thoroughly Modern Millie are $15 and be purchased online at BlumenthalCenter.org, by phone at 704-372-1000, or from the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Box Office located in the Tryon Street lobby of the Belk Theater. Thoroughly Modern Millie is a high-spirited musical romp that has all of New York dancing the Charleston. It's the zany new 1920's musical that took Broadway by storm! Taking place in New York City in 1922, Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of young Millie Dillmount, who has just moved to the city in search of a new life for herself. It's a New York full of intrigue and jazz - a time when women were entering the workforce and the rules of love and social behavior were changing forever. Based on the popular movie, the stage version of Thoroughly Modern Millie includes a full score of new songs and bright dance numbers.Thoroughly Modern Millie will appeal to theatre lovers and dance enthusiasts alike. Eddie Mabry's original choreography features rousing tap numbers that will transport audience members back to a time when bobbed hair and rouged knees were "unspeakably (femme) fatal" The production is directed by NWSA theatre teacher Corey Mitchell and musical theatre teacher Matt Hinson, part of the same team that helmed last year's sensation, Disney's Aida.
Northwest School of the Arts is Charlotte-Mecklenburg's only arts magnet secondary school where students follow the same academic requirements as other schools, but each student also receives ongoing, in-depth instruction in visual arts, drama, musical theatre, choral and instrumental music, or dance. A number of NWSA graduates have gone on to professional careers in the arts, including roles in Broadway musicals, including Wicked, The Color Purple, Jersey Boys, La Cage aux Folles, Sweet Charity, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Music Man, Rent, The Producers, and Disney's Aida.Videos