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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Making Millie!" In Rehearsal With Paper Mill and Maltz Jupiter's Thoroughly Modern Millie
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Making Millie!" In Rehearsal With Paper Mill and Maltz Jupiter's Thoroughly Modern Millie
Maltz Jupiter Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse join forces to offer a co-production of the Tony-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie . Brian Padgett, a company member in the Maltz run, documented the rehearsal and tech process leading up to opening night. Read the Playbill.com story.
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Millie meets the Moderns
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Some spacing work.
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The Modern Millie wedge.
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Just fierce ladies being fierce.
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The Priscilla Girls: Kelly Black, Carleigh Bettiol, Amy Van Norstrand and Colleen Broome
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Peek a boo
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Nutty Cracker life
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Carleigh Bettiol, Laurie Veldheer and Jessica Sheridan forgetting about some boys
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Girls-a-tappin.
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Cleaning/teaching/fixing (Chris Messina and Brenda Braxton)
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Mark S. Hoebee showin' us how it's done
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Jeff Kready, Ashley Kate Adams and Laurie Veldheer enjoying each other
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Cirque de So(Millie)
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The sun never sets on cool. (Ashley Kate Adams, Giovanni Bonaventura, Carleigh Bettiol and Amy Van Norstrand)
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The dueling lifts.
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Jimmy and the wigheads. Album in stores next Tuesday.
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Billy Bustamante!
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Text message sharing time with Jessica Sheridan, James Seol and Colleen Broome
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Trevor at the ready.
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Millie/Jimmy drama with Jeff Kready and Laurie Veldheer
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Director pose.
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Mr. Graydon!
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"When you got it... you got it"
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Falling in love...
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Scene work with Mark
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Gagged and bound never looked so good.
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Special skills are important for actors to have!
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Meersy's found out. (Jeff Kready, Lenora Nemetz and Brenda Braxton)
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True love.
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Lenora Nemetz and Billy Bustamante. They pretty friendly...
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Jeff Kready. Even singers sometimes dance.
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Bun foo comes a-runnin' to Burke.
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Director/star chat.
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"Take her home, fellas!"
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Laundry service!
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The wig fittings begin.
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Desks that have to dance... #musicalsarehard
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A shot of Denis Jones, through his dancers
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So beat the drums cause here comes thoroughly...
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Jimmy/Millie meditation time
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1st day on set!
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Millie in the wings.
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Self portrait!
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"What we think is chic..."
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1st day in costumes (Giovanni Bonaventura and Charlie Johnson)
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Backstage traffic
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Miss Dorothy. (Ashley Kate Adams)
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The actors (Leslie Flesner and Amy Van Norstrand) prepare
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Colleen Broome in the wings
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Millie (Laurie Veldheer) finding Oz
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Elevator lovelies Laurie Veldheer and Ashley Kate Adams
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Meersy all made up.
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Stenog realness with Giovanni Bonaventura, Charlie Johnson, Jeff Kready, Barry Busby and John T. Wolfe
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Me and Ms. Flannery
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Tech week, hold for lighting.
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Someone tell Ashley Kate that we aren't doing Xanadu .
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The ladies rest.
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Muzzy (Brenda Braxton) serenades us with some Dreamgirls
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Family dinner!
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Puttin' "Forget About the Boy" on its feet.
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"Muqin" with with Billy Bustamante, James Seol and Lenora Nemetz
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Ms. Braxton in the wings.
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Jeff mugs for the camera in the other wing.
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"Gimme Gimme!"
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Some final thoughts from our captain.
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#fierce face from Carleigh Bettiol
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Brenda Braxton and Jessica Sheridan
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Finishing touches for Brenda.
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Meersy and her boys. (and me)
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Opening night warm wishes from Paper Mill.
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Love from our home base.
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Our Artistic Leaders on opening night. Thanks for watching. The show comes to Paper Mill Playhouse April 10!
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Following a March 5-24 run in Jupiter, FL, the show plays Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ, April 10-May 5.
The production is directed by Paper Mill producing artistic director Mark S. Hoebee with choreography by Denis Jones .
The cast features Tony nominee Brenda Braxton as Muzzy van Hossmere, Burke Moses as Trevor Graydon III, Lenora Nemetz as Mrs. Meers, Laurie Veldheer as Millie Dilmount and Jeff Kready as Jimmy Smith.
The company also includes Ashley Kate Adams as Miss Dorothy Brown, Billy Bustamante as Bun Foo, James Seol as Ching Ho and Jessica Sheridan as Miss Flannery.
Carleigh Bettiol , Craig Blake, Barry Busby , Darien Crago, Patch David, Ian DeVine, Charlie Johnson, Ian Liberto , Sarah Meahl, Lizzy Palmer, Kristyn Pope, Kelly Skidmore, Amy Van Norstrand and John T. Wolfe round out the ensemble.
Based on the 1967 film of the same name, Thoroughly Modern Millie , according to press notes, "tells the story of a small-town girl who travels to New York City to marry for money instead of love."
Visit Papermill.org .