Introduction On March 23rd to March 25th Iona Presentation College celebrated their musical for 2018 Thoroughly Modern Millie. Directed by Mr Joshua Brant, choreographed by Mrs Coby Brant and musically directed by Mr Aron Wyatt. Set in Manhattan of 1922 Millie Dillmount is on the prowl from a wealthy husband because she is a modern and believes money comes before love. I had high expectations of the show as their was an extremely dedicated cast, crew, orchestra and directors. Iona has constantly developed incredible musicals, so I expected nothing less. However, I was intrigued due to the fact their was a new director as well as the show had been done before ten years ago. I also had never heard of Thoroughly Modern Millie before so I was …show more content…
Using verbal choices such as accent as well as the non-verbal choices for example stance. These two dramatic techniques Eliza possessed is what went into the construction of Mrs Meers. Eliza uses accent frequently. Switching from stereotypical Chinese to New Yorker American. This change in accent gives a wide amount of character depth and motive—as well as an insight into the type of person Mrs Meers is. If Mrs Meers has the ability to change to a Chinese accent she must be clever, as well as insensitive to offending her Chiense counterparts, Bun Foo and Ching Ho, which results in the audience seeing Mrs Meers as self- centred. An example of this use of accent is the repletion of her line “Sad to be all alone in the world.” Which is her signature phrase said in the Chinese accent. The accent gives life to the phrase—making it comic, whereas later we learn that she helps smuggle orphans to the Orient and the phrase has more depth to it. The accent can gives the audience a new perception on the lines Eliza delivers, so what Mrs Meers says. Eliza would have to posses the ability to do both accents with ease as well as still being able to say her lines with fluidity and