'Millie' comes to Hale Theater

OREM — Winner of six Tony awards, including Best Musical, the high-energy extravaganza "Thoroughly Modern Millie" is coming to the Hale Center stage.

The show follows a small-town girl who lives her big-city dreams in Manhattan during the jazzy 1920s.

Fresh off the bus from Kansas, a thoroughly un-modern Millie comes to New York in search of a new life. She has a plan — get a good job as a secretary to a very rich man and then marry him. She checks into the Hotel Priscilla where she encounters the eccentric proprietress Mrs. Meers.

As she flaps, taps and Charlestons her way through the Roaring '20s Millie learns there's more to being modern than the latest fashions, bobbed hair and a boss who is a rich, eligible bachelor. There's a little thing called love that never seems to go out of style.

Doing double duty as director and choreographer, Dave Tinney has to make this huge musical work in the small confines of the intimate space. This is the first "tap show" that Hale Center Theater Orem has ever produced.

Playing the lead role of Millie Dillmount is Brighton Quinn Hertford. Brighton has been seen in several films and television shows including "The Work and the Glory," "Everwood," "Dawson's Creek" and "The Parent Trap."

Local professional actress Jayne Luke plays the role of Mrs. Meers.

Other actors in the show include Preston Sadleir (last seen in "Footloose") and David Smith (Lumiere in "Beauty and the Beast") alternating in the role of Jimmy. Rachel Lynn Woodward and Brittni Bills will share the role of Miss Dorothy Brown, and Chad Little and Derek J. Pead will alternate as Millie's boss, Trevor Graydon.

Lita Gibbons will share the role of Muzzy with Amanda Crabb.

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If you go

What: "Thoroughly Modern Millie"

Where: Hale Center Theater, 225 W. 400 North, Orem

When: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 28-Nov. 24

Cost: $13.50-$17.50

Phone: 226-8600

Web: www.haletheater.com