Jeanine Tesori modernizes 'Millie'

[Millie] is quite a switch from [Jeanine Tesori]'s earlier, more serious works. Her award-winning 1997 off-Broadway musical Violet-about a disfigured girl traveling through the South in search of spiritual healing-leaned on country and gospel motifs. Her score to Nicholas Hytner's 1998 Lin...

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Published in:Billboard 2002-04, Vol.114 (14), p.9
Main Author: Hoffman, Wayne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Broadway theater
Music
Musical theater
Musicians & conductors
Personal profiles
Tesori, Jeanine
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Summary:[Millie] is quite a switch from [Jeanine Tesori]'s earlier, more serious works. Her award-winning 1997 off-Broadway musical Violet-about a disfigured girl traveling through the South in search of spiritual healing-leaned on country and gospel motifs. Her score to Nicholas Hytner's 1998 Lincoln Center production of Twelfth Night, which earned a Drama Desk Award, was modem and exotic. "I tend to work on dark themes," Tesori says, "so [Millie] was a change for me. It's wonderful to hear an audience laugh.
ISSN:0006-2510