It has been announced that American actress Molly Marie Walsh (pictured right) will star as Millie Dillmount alongside Russell Grant as Mrs Meers in the off-West End premiere of Thoroughly Modern Millie.
With music by Jeanine Tesori, lyrics by Dick Scanlan, and a book by Richard Morris and Dick Scanlan, Thoroughly Modern Millie runs at Theatro Technis between Wednesday 1st and Saturday 25th October 2014. The show is based on the 1967 film of the same name which starred Julie Andrews.
Molly Marie Walsh played The Witch in Into the Woods and appeared in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Forbidden Broadway in the US. In London she recently played Mrs. Crachit in Alan Menken’s A Christmas Carol (Tabard) and Katisha in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado (Battersea Barge).
