The success of original material like Urinetown, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee and In the Heights, as well as creative re-imaginings of film properties, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray, Billy Elliot and The Color Purple, and plays-turned-musicals, such as Spring Awakening, prompts theatre historian John Kenrick to write: " Is the Musical dead?

She subsequently appeared in a string of 1960s films ( after signing an exclusive contract with Universal Pictures ), including 1967's Thoroughly Modern Millie with Julie Andrews and 1968's What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

The tune of the song is also used as " The Speed Test " in the 2002 musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Sweet Mystery of Life " and " I'm Falling in Love With Someone " were used in the Broadway adaptation of Thoroughly Modern Millie.

** Thoroughly Modern Millie-Universal City Studio Sound Department

In the Broadway version of the musical " Thoroughly Modern Millie ", set in 1920's New York, George Gershwin and his wife make a cameo appearance, with George finding inspiration for " Rhapsody in Blue " in a dress.

As detailed by Hlavsa's Faulkner and the Thoroughly Modern Novel ( Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1991 ), Light in August has 21 chapters, as does the Gospel of St. John.

Other notable films are Slaughterhouse-Five, The World According to Garp, The World of Henry Orient, Hawaii, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Great Waldo Pepper, Slap Shot, Funny Farm, A Little Romance with Laurence Olivier, and The Little Drummer Girl.

Hill rebuilt his Hollywood reputation with the Julie Andrews movie Thoroughly Modern Millie, then Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and, after Slaughterhouse-Five, The Sting.

As an example of this in American culture, the musical comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie features a Chinese-run prostitution ring, which is specifically referred to as " white slavery ".

She also appeared in a number of movies, The First Traveling Sales Lady ( 1956 ) with Ginger Rogers, the cult film Skidoo and Thoroughly Modern Millie, opposite Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore.

* Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 )

Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total.

He received 14 Academy Award nominations and was nominated at least once per decade from the 1950s until the 2000s, but his only win was for Thoroughly Modern Millie for Best Original Music Score.

* Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ) ( Academy Award winner, Best Original Score )

* 2002: Thoroughly Modern Millie – Book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, new lyrics by Dick Scanlan, new music by Jeanine Tesori.

Among her roles are Mia Bevan in Cutting It, Sarah Trevanion in Wild at Heart, and the title role in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Theatre Award.

She joined the Broadway musical Thoroughly Modern Millie in February 2004 as " Millie ".

* Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 2004, replacement Millie Dillmount )

* 1967 – " Thoroughly Modern Millie " ( music by Jimmy Van Heusen ) for the film Thoroughly Modern Millie.

His first movie role was as a stereotypical henchman in Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ).

* Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 )

His roles in films such as Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines ( 1965 ), King Rat ( 1965 ), The Chase ( 1966 ), Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ), Isadora ( 1968 ) and Performance ( 1970 ) ( alongside Mick Jagger ), as well as his relationship with actress Sarah Miles, had made him a media personality.

* Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 )-Jimmy

* 1967 – " Thoroughly Modern Millie " ( lyrics by Sammy Cahn ) for the film Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 American musical film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews.

He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Sundown ( 1941 ), Arabian Nights ( 1942 ), The Climax ( 1944 ), Flower Drum Song ( 1961 ), That Touch of Mink ( 1962 ), Gambit ( 1966 ), Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ), Sweet Charity ( 1969 ), Airport ( 1970 ), and Earthquake ( 1974 ).

Gavin also appeared in the classic thriller Psycho ( 1960 ) for director Alfred Hitchcock, the epic Spartacus ( 1960 ) directed by Stanley Kubrick, and the 1920s-era Julie Andrews musical Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ) for George Roy Hill, again for producer Ross Hunter.

* Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 )

In the late-1940s, Fleischer moved over to Universal, where he became a special effects expert and general problem-solver, working on films such as Francis ( 1950 ), The Birds ( 1963 ), and Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ).

* Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 )

* 1967: Thoroughly Modern ( ABC )

He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Sundown ( 1941 ), Arabian Nights ( 1942 ), The Climax ( 1944 ), Flower Drum Song ( 1961 ), That Touch of Mink ( 1962 ), Gambit ( 1966 ), Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ), Sweet Charity ( 1969 ), Airport ( 1970 ), and Earthquake ( 1974 ).

The song was revived in its original form and context for the 1967 musical film, Thoroughly Modern Millie.

For the stage musical, see Thoroughly Modern Millie ( musical ).

This is clearly indicated by the visual depiction of heffalumps in the vignette that accompanies the song "( The Dreadfully-Dreaded, Thoroughly Three-Headed ) Horribly Hazardous Heffalumps ", which is kept in the same musical style as the song " Heffalumps And Woozles " that accompanies Winnie's nightmare from 1968.

* Thoroughly Modern Millie ( musical ), the 2002 Broadway musical

* Rye Neck High School was second runner-up for USA Weekend's 2007 " Showstopper Contest " for best high school musical, with their performance of Thoroughly Modern Millie.

In 1998, he played James the Less and God in Terrence McNally's passion play, Corpus Christi, and in 2002 made his Broadway debut in the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie ( and appears on the cast recording ).

* 1968 – " Thoroughly Modern Millie " ( lyrics by Sammy Cahn ) for the film Thoroughly Modern Millie.

His review was scathing :" It is a cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy that treats the hideous depredations of that sleazy, moronic pair as though they were as full of fun and frolic as the jazz-age cut-ups in Thoroughly Modern Millie ... uch ridiculous, camp-tinctured travesties of the kind of people these desperadoes were and of the way people lived in the dusty Southwest back in those barren years might be passed off as candidly commercial movie comedy, nothing more, if the film weren't reddened with blotches of violence of the most grisly sort ...