Limerick musical, 'Thoroughly Modern Millie' got an all-star official launch this week when Leanne Moore, winner of RTE's You're A Star, Celia Holman Lee and the Mayor joined to open the curtain on the stage proceedings.

Thoroughly Modern Millie is being lauded as the multi award-winning Limerick Musical Society's spring production for 2008. It will be staged at the University Concert Hall from Thursday, April 17 to Saturday, April 18 at 8pm.

The whole production takes the theatregoer to a magical mythical musical world in the roaring twenties when bobbing your hair and rolling your stockings was considered daring.

It's 1922 and Millie who, has arrived in New York, has guts, pluck, charisma, moxie: a girl with big dreams from a little town.

She is scared and excited to be there and looks at her return ticket before signing, 'Burn the bridge, bet the store. Baby's coming home no more' and she tears up her return ticket.

She sings and dances with the 'moderns' and tells the world to 'beat the drums, 'cause here comes thoroughly modern Millie now'.

The star of the show is then mugged and loses her scarf, hat and shoe and after a tug of war for her purse, she loses that, too. When Jimmy Smith, a brash city slicker with an irrepressible, buoyant personality, enters, Millie trips him.

He tells her to go back to Kansas and when Millie refuses, suggests she checks into the Hotel Priscilla a rooming house for actresses, where she plans on staying and making her mark in the big city.

At the Hotel Priscilla, the girls Lucille, Rita, Alice, Gloria and Ruth bemoan not getting any acting roles but they aren't leaving the excitement of the city.

The stage management for the show will be in the capable hands of Mary Morrisson, while Gerry Meagher will be the lighting designer.

Thoroughly Modern Millie will take place at the University Concert Hall from Thursday, April 17 to Saturday, April 19 at 8pm.

Booking is now open on 061-331549. For further information visit www.uch.ie or www.limerickmusical.com.

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