Thoroughly Modern Millie cancels its opening performances

The touring production of Thoroughly Modern Millie, starring Hayley Tamaddon, has been cancelled its opening performances on 27th of March 2018 and 28th of March 2018 at the Richmond Theatre. 

This is due to technical reasons. 

The Theatre has said "To exchange to another date please call 0207 206 1170 and one of our Agents will be happy to assist you."

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.

Casting announced for UK tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie

Following a hugely successful tour in Spring 2017, award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie is set to tour the UK again in 2018 opening at Richmond Theatre on Tuesday 27 March with actress Hayley Tamaddon taking on the title role of Millie Dilmount, a Kansas girl determined to make it big in New York City.

Hayley Tamaddon is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Del Dingle in Emmerdale and Andrea Beckett in Coronation Street and for winning the fifth series of ITV1's Dancing on Ice. Other television credits include Accused, Shameless, Waterloo Road, Where the Heart Is and The Royal. Her musical theatre roles include Roxie Hart in Chicago (UK Tour), The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot (UK tour), Janet in The Rocky Horror Show (UK Tour), Frenchie in Grease(UK Tour), DiAna Morales in A Chorus Line (Sheffield Theatres), Trish in Boogie Nights (UK Tour), Carmen in Fame (UK Tour), Laura in Boyband (West End) and Lisa in Mamma Mia (West End). She has also starred in the UK tour of The Vagina Monologues and in John Godber's play Muddy Cows (Stephen Joseph, Scarborough).

Pocket Size Theatre 5th Anniversary: The top 10 worst shows we've ever seen!

Flashdance at the New Wimbledon Theatre ★

This production was reviewed in October 2017 by Mark Swale, one of our regular reviewers. After personally seeing the original tour and London production this show I was really hoping this would be an exciting show so was looking forward to reading the review. However, this experience wasn't the most joyful evenings...

"This show lacked any style or vision, nothing was interesting or different... This Sell-a-Door production fails to hit the mark, a show which has potential has been miscast with poor creative decisions. Wet. And not in the way you want."

Thoroughly Modern Millie at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★

This show was reviewed by one of our harsher (but brilliant!) reviewers, Andy Edmeads. He went to see the show on tour back in May 2017 at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking and what he saw didn't seem to hit the mark. This show has some cracking numbers in but clearly, this wasn't the good kind of cracking!

"The direction was flat and formulaic... Thoroughly Modern Millie is a dire evening out and this felt like a tired and lazy production... This is a show that really is best left for low-budget am-dram companies to wheel out in an emergency."

REVIEW: Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Landor Theatre

Sweeping audiences back to the 1920’s, Thoroughly Modern Millie is filled with sharp choreography, fantastic songs and a cast who knows how to have fun with it.

Millie Dillmount (Francesca Lara Gordon) has arrived in New York in search of a new life for herself. It is 1922 when jazz was popular; women were beginning to join the workforce and the rules of social behaviour were changed forever.

The Off-West End premiere of THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE has been postponed until April 2015

The Off West End premiere of the six-time Tony Award-winning tap dancing musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie is being postponed to 2015.

Due to star Russell Grant as the mysterious and sinister Mrs Meers and American Molly Marie Walsh in the title role of Millie Dillmount, Thoroughly Modern Millie, was booked to play at Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London NW1 from 1 - 25 October.

It will now play at the same theatre 1 - 25 April with the full cast and creatives already been announced, subject to their availability. Tickets are being refunded and booking will open soon for the new dates.

Molly Marie Walsh is to play Millie Dillmount opposite Russell Grantin the Off West End premiere of Thoroughly Modern Millie

American Molly Marie Walsh is to play the title role of Millie Dillmount alongside Russell Grant as the mysterious and sinister Mrs Meers in the Off West End premiere of the six-time Tony Award-winning tap dancing musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Thoroughly Modern Millie, with music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, based on the 1967 film of the same name, starring Julie Andrews, will play at Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road, London NW1 from 1 - 25 October.

Press night is Tuesday October 7 at 7.30pm 

10 shows that closed too soon...

The 2006 Broadway revival production of A Chorus Line was brought over to London's West End in February 2013 and it had previously been announced that the show would only play a limited run at the London Palladium. After receiving numerous 4 ad 5 star reviews and being named 'Timless and Thrilling' by the Dail Mail the show closed the following August after previously booking until January 2014. The show takes a behind-the-scenes look at 17 hopefuls auditioning for just eight places in a new Broadway musical, it has a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Date, with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban. The production will reportedly embark on a European tour before returning to the UK for a tour "beginning in autumn 2014".

Cameron Mackintosh's first original musical in over a decade was Betty Blue Eyes, opening at the Novello Theatre in April 2011 but closed the following September. The show is set in a Yorkshire village after the Second World War, where rationing presents a challenge for the locals who want to celebrate the Queen's Royal wedding to Prince Philip in style. Looking to slaughter an illegally raised pig (a blue-eyed creature named Betty) for the event, chaos ensues when the sow is stolen and a food inspector arrives, determined to stop such activities. The musical features a book by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman with music and lyrics by  George Stile and Anthony Drewe. The show is currently touring the UK.