"Thoroughly Modern Millie" from "Thoroughly Modern Millie"

ENSEMBLE MEN
There are those, I suppose
Think we're mad, heaven knows
The world has gone to rack and to ruin

WOMAN #1
What we think is chic

WOMAN #2
Unique

WOMEN #3 & #4
And quite adorable

ENSEMBLE WOMEN
They think is odd and
"Sodom and Gomorrah"-ble!

MILLIE
But the fact is,
Everything today is thoroughly modern

ENSEMBLE
Check your personality

MILLIE
Everything today makes yesterday slow

ENSEMBLE
Better face reality

MILLIE
It's not insanity
Says Vanity Fair
In fact, it's stylish to

MILLIE AND ENSEMBLE WOMEN
Raise your skirts and bob your hair

MILLIE
Have you seen the way they kiss in the movies?

ENSEMBLE MEN
Isn't it delectable?

MILLIE AND ENSEMBLE WOMEN
Painting lips and pencil lining your brow
Now is quite respectable

MILLIE
Good-bye, good goody girl
I'm changing and how

ENSEMBLE
So beat the drums 'cause here comes
Thoroughly Modern Millie now
What we think is chic, unique and quite adorable
They think is odd and
"Sodom and Gomorrah"-ble!
But the fact is
Everything today is thoroughly modern

ENSEMBLE MEN
Bands are getting jazzier

ENSEMBLE
Everything today is starting to go

ENSEMBLE WOMEN
Cars are getting snazzier

ENSEMBLE
Men say it's criminal what women'll do
What they're forgetting is

MILLIE
Thisis 1922!

MILLIE AND ENSEMBLE
Good-bye, good goody girl
I'm changing and how

MILLIE
I'm changing and how!

ALL
So beat the drums 'cause here comes thoroughly
Hot off the press!
One step ahead!
Jazz age!
Whoopee baby!
We're so thoroughly modern

MILLIE
Millie!

ALL
Now!

Cast of "Thoroughly Modern Millie"

Millie Dillmount - Female - Mezzo - 18 to 30 - Lead
Jimmy Smith - Male - Tenor - 21 to 35 - Lead
Dorothy Smith - Female - Soprano - 21 to 30 - Lead
Trevor Graydon - Male - Baritone - 25 to 50 - Supporting
Muzzy Van Hossmere - Female - Alto - 35 to 55 - Supporting
Mrs. Meers - Female - Belt - 32 to 55 - Supporting
Ching Ho - Male - 20 to 40 - Supporting - 20 to 40 - Supporting
Mrs. Flannery - Female - 21 to 42 - Supporting
Ruth - Female - 16 to 32 - Cameo
Lucille - Female - 16 to 32 - Cameo
Daphne - Female - 16 to 32 - Cameo
Cora - Female - 16 to 32 - Cameo
Mathilde - Female - 16 to 32 - Cameo
Ethel Peas - Female - 16 to 32 - Cameo
Rita - Female - 16 to 32 - Cameo
Alice - Female - 16 to 32 - Cameo
Dexter - Male - Cameo
Rodney - Male - Cameo
Kenneth - Male - Cameo
Muzzy's Boys / Office Staff - Male - 17 to 35 - Chorus

"Forget About the Boy" from "Thoroughly Modern Millie"

MILLIE
No canary in a tree for me
This canary's ready to fly free

Cut the cord
Is that a man I once adored?
He's nothing but an albatross
No great loss
Doublecrosser
Forget about the boy
Pull the plug
Ain't he the one who pulled the rug
He's lower than an alley cat
Dirty rat
And I flatter
Forget about the boy
Forget about the boy
Forget about the boy

And in the moonlight
Don't you think about him
Sister, you're much better off without him
You can blow the blues a kiss goodbye
And put the sun back in the sky
For when he comes crawlin'
I'm not fallin'

Shout hooray and halleluh!
Now me and mister wrong are through
I'll find myself another beau
Who I know is no rover
Forget about the boy
Forget about the boy
Forget about -

Jimmy, oh Jimmy, Jimmy

TYPIST #1
Horace

TYPIST #2
Danny

TYPIST #3
Milton

TYPIST #4
Percy

TYPIST #5
Edgar

TYPIST #6
Timothy

TYPIST #7
Alfred

TYPIST #8
Vito Carbone

TYPIST #9:
Benjamin Pratt, the third

TYPIST #10
Teddy Morgan

MISS FLANNERY
Barney Schreiber, C.P.A.

MILLIE
Jimmy, oh Jimmy, silly boy
Gee, what a real swell guy

MISS FLANNERY and TYPISTS (at the same time)
Cut the cord, is that a man I once adored?
He's nothing but an albatross
No great loss, doublecrosser

ALL
Forget about the boy

MILLIE
Jimmy, oh Jimmy, what great joy
He makes my troubles fly

MISS FLANNERY and TYPISTS (at the same time)
Pull the plug, ain't he the one who pulled the rug?
He's lower than an alley cat, dirty rat
And I flatter

ALL
Forget about the boy
Forget about the boy
Forget about the boy!

(The typists break into defiant tap, topped by MISS FLANNERY in a tap solo.)

Shout hooray and halleluh!
Now that me and mister wrong are through
I'll find myself another beau
Who I know is no rover
Forget about the boy
Forget about the boy
Forget about the boy

And in the moonlight don't you think about him
Sister you're much better off without him
You can blow the blues a kiss goodbye
And put the sun back in the sky

MISS FLANNERY and TYPISTS
For when he comes crawlin'

MILLIE
I'm not fallin'

ALL
Hallelujah!
Forget about the boy
Forget about the boy
Forget about the boy!

"Not For the Life of Me" from "Thoroughly Modern Millie"

MILLIE
I studied all the pictures in magazines and books.
I memorized the subway map, too.
It's one block north to Macy's and two to Brothers Brooks.
Manhattan, I prepared for you.

You certainly are diff'rent from what they have back home,
Where nothing's over three stories high,
And no one's in a hurry or wants to roam.
But I do, and they wonder why.

They said I would soon be good and lonely.
They said I would sing the homesick blues.
(taking a train ticket from her pocket)
So I always have this ticket in my pocket -
A ticket home in my pocket -
To do with as I choose.

(tearing the ticket in two)
Burn the bridge, bet the store,
Baby's coming home no more,
Not for the life of me.
Break the lock, post my bail,
Done my time, I'm out of jail,
Not for the life of me.

A life that's gotta be more than a one-light town
Where the light is always red,
Gotta be more than an old ghost town
Where the ghost ain't even dead.

Clap-a-your hands, just-a-because
Don't you know that where I am ain't where I was,
Not for the life of me.
Boh-doh-dee-oh
Not for the life of
Not for the life of
Not for the life of me!