‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ comes to stage at Diamond Bar High

“Thoroughly Modern Millie” offers lots of singing and tap dancing at Diamond Bar High School this weekend and next.

“Thoroughly Modern Millie” is a really big production at Diamond Bar High. It has three different casts with more than 50 actors and actresses, plus twin directors.

No wonder, the drama department is adding two more shows, offering a total of six different performances this weekend and next.

While the students may be thoroughly modern with their iPhones and iPods, the play takes us back to 1922, when these gadgets were the stuff of science fiction.

Some would say a simpler time, but whenever it comes to love and life, do things ever really change? The zany musical opens with our ingenue from Kansas moving to the Big Apple to take a bite out of life.

Read more in Rich Irwin’s story MILLIE.