How Does Mrs. Meers Build Suspense In Thoroughly Modern Millie

Thoroughly Modern Millie depicts a story that takes place in the 1920, about a woman, Millie, who has a goal to find a job as a stenographer in the city of New York. She plans to be a stenographer to a wealthy businessman so she could eventually marry the man. Within the time that Millie spends in New York, she becomes friends with Dorothy, an orphan who check into the Priscilla Hotel. We learn that Mrs. Meers, the owner of the hotel, secretly sells her guests, into white slavery, and that her main targets are people who do not have any close family or friends, or basically anyone who does not have anyone that would notice if they are gone. The suspense starts to build when Mrs. Meers targets Dorothy to kidnap so she can sell her to become a slave. It takes Mrs. Meers a few attempts to kidnap her, but when Mrs. Meers finally succeeds in kidnapping Dorothy, Millie realizes that a few people have been randomly missing all of a sudden, and that is when the climax of the play occurs. The resolution is when Miss Flannery disguises herself as an orphan and Mrs. Meers falls for it and is so close to selling her, but Millie records everything she says …show more content…
Alana Glaser, who played Millie Dillmount, did not disappoint with her performance. Of all actors and actresses, her acting stood out the most to me. She was able to get into character as a woman living in the 1920s and was able play the part of Millie wonderfully. Another remarkable performance was one from Isaiah Graham, who played the part of Jimmy Smith, Millie’s lover. Glaser and Graham were able to co-exist as the two main roles and both characters complimented each other well. I do not think there were any weak performances, but the only thing that should have been better is Mrs. Meers accent. It did not sound like an actual Chinese lady at all, and it was hard to distinguish that that was the type of accent she was trying to