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Thoroughly Modern Millie. (New Releases). (sound recording review)
American Theatre, October, 2002 by Gener, Randy
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THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, Broadway cast recording, new music by Jeanine Tesori, new lyrics by Dick Scanlan, RCA Victor. IT'S A DELIBERATELY OLD-FASHIONED musical, ultra-bright and bouncy. Reshaped into a Tony-winning musical from Elmer Bernstein's 1967 Oscar-winning film, Thoroughly Modern Millie is an unabashed throwback to an earlier, giddier era of musical theatre.
With Sutton Foster's star-making performance at its center, the show's pastiche score summons up the sort of free-and-easy confidence and naivete that seems wildly anachronistic in an era of doomed-to-irony, ...
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