The cast has been set for Aloha Teen Theatre’s performance of “Thoroughly Modern Mille Jr.” this summer.
The title character, Millie Dillmount, will be played by Riley Newton; her love interest Jimmy Smith by Simon Ellis; Miss Dorothy Brown by Malia Moore; and Trevor Graydon by Oliver Kriebl-Bruno. Mrs. Meers, a dragon-lady villainess, will be played by Sarah Rouse, and her two minions, Ching Ho and Bun Foo, will be played by Kristen White and Olivia Loney, respectively. Kat Sullivan appears as Miss Flannery, Rebecca Gent as Gloria, Alicia Hicks as Alice, Riley Walters as Ruth, Mahina Farmer as Cora, Maddy Bram as Lucille, and Deja Logan as Ethel Peas. Manu Levine, Kate Carpenter, Camille Kahele-Cariaga, Alessa Stephens, and Ashari and Bukari Jones make up the keiki chorus, and other cast members include Vincent Hicks, Christian McNeill, Christian Voorhis, Erin Durkin, and Kai Bram.
All cast members are younger than age 18, according to Aloha Performing Arts Company which oversees the teen theater program.
Melissa Geiger will serve as assistant director, mentoring Salena Kahele; music director is Megan Hodge, mentoring Alicia Hicks; choreographer is Juanita Finkenberg, mentoring Sarah Rouse, and the co-producers are Arlene Araki and Sam Valenti. Other crew positions include set designer, Gerald Lucena; Victor Lugo, lead builder; lighting designer, Justyn Toyama, mentored by boB Gage; costuming, Renee Monell; stage manager, Terry Ann Fujioka, mentoring Tyler Savarese; props, Pamela Hicks; sound designer and operator, Annie Herring; house manager, Cameron Bailey; concessions, Normetta Muir; and box office, Sharyn Toyama.
“Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr.” is a high-spirited musical romp, set in New York City in 1922, when young Millie Dillmount has just moved to the big city in search of a new life for herself. It’s a New York full of intrigue and jazz, in a time when women were beginning to enter the workforce and the rules of love and social behavior were changing forever. The production is the mainstage offering of APAC’s Aloha Teen Theatre, and features ATT president Mia Kriebl-Bruno making her directing debut.
“Thoroughly Modern Millie Jr.” will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and at 2:30 p.m. on Sundays from June 12 to June 21 at the Aloha Theatre in Kainaliu. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and young adults and $5 for children age 17 and younger.
Tickets are available online at apachawaii.org, by calling 322-9924 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on weekdays, or at the box office beginning one hour before performance time. For more information call 322-9924.