MGR roars back to '20s

AUBURN - This Wednesday they're going to dance like it's 1929.

When the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie” premieres that night, audiences will be swept up in the then-forbidden dancing styles of the Roaring '20s.

The show - adapted from the 1967 film of the same name starring Julie Andrews - tells the story of Millie, a midwestern girl who moves to New York City in the early 1920s to marry a wealthy man. She gives herself a flapper makeover and befriends Jimmy Smith, a poor paper clip salesman, and cabaret singer Muzzy van Hossmere. As Millie's affection for Jimmy grows, their relationship is jeopardized by both his apparent romance with Muzzy and Millie's aspirations to marry her rich new boss, Trevor Graydon III.