вЂњModern to modern,вЂќ Millie asks Muzzy, вЂњDonвЂ™t you find love at first sight a bit old-fashioned?вЂќ MuzzyвЂ™s response sums up the retro theme of the show: вЂњAs long as you find it, who cares?вЂќД«ook writer Dick Scanlan, who conceived of this adaptation and worked on it with the original screenwriter Richard Morris until the latter passed away, has eliminated the many excesses of the George Roy Hill film. ItвЂ™s left to high-society chanteuse Muzzy (Tonya Pinkins) to set Millie on the path to happiness. If only he needed a stenog, heвЂ™d be what Millie was looking for, but, alas, he doesnвЂ™t even have a job. Miss Dorothy dreams of taking to the stage and, in a nicely stylized performance from Sarah Uriarte Berry, turns everyone around her into the subject of a character study.Д®quipped with the skills of a spectacular вЂњstenog,вЂќ Millie sets about choosing just the right boss and husband-to-be, and finds her catch in Trevor Graydon, the very model of a modern male employer, played by the spot-on Marc Kudisch.Д«ut MillieвЂ™s plans get confused when she begins falling for Jimmy Smith (a versatile and likable Jim Stanek), a young man whoвЂ™s got the New York lingo, and checkered fashion style, down cold. She reveals this last, most important part of her plan to anyone who will listen - especially to her neighbor at the Priscilla Hotel for single women, the even newer-to-New York blue blood, Miss Dorothy Brown. To Millie, being вЂњa modernвЂќ means bobbing her hair, exposing her ankles and marrying the boss rather than the boy next door. She brings to Millie a brassy American boldness - a more appropriate piece of casting than the English-accented Julie Andrews, who in the film assayed the Kansas-bred girl who arrives in 1922 New York to explore everything вЂњmodern.вЂќ For Millie, sheвЂ™s ideal, and she demonstrates some serious triple-threat potential, acting, singing and dancing the role with a confident ease. mounting of вЂњLes Miz.вЂќ Her only fault: She seemed a bit smiley for such a weepy tale. The superbly slick result displays no signs of trauma: Only a week into its official run, the show is remarkably tight, and moves so briskly that it accomplishes what few musicals can brag about these days: It leaves the audience wanting more.ДЇoster was a vocal standout as Eponine in the most recent L.A. Director Michael Mayer has guided the production through a late cast change - Sutton Foster took over the role of Millie shortly before previews began - and some technical difficulties that delayed the opening by a week.

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