‘Millie' comes to the DV stage

Musical comedy is drama club’s latest hit, By Kimberly Montalbano After less than three months of rehearsal, the Delaware Valley High School Drama Club put on its annual spring musical on April 30, May 1 and 2. This year, director Kim Golden chose the show “Thoroughly Modern Millie” for her cast. “We needed to find a show that would accommodate all the talented seniors we had returning, with parts for the underclassmen, and was appropriate for families and high school. It needed to be different from last year’s show, and something we could afford to do. ‘Millie’ was a perfect fit,” Golden said. The story revolves around Millie Dillmount (played by senior Kat Kreischer) who is a young woman who moves from Salina, Kansas, to the “Big Apple” in 1922, hoping to marry a rich man. Along the way, Millie gets entangled in a “love web” and also, unknowingly, issues such as white slavery, as she deals with all the mysteries of the big city. Upon hearing the choice Golden made, a majority of Drama Club members were eager to get started; although many did not know the play, they soon began to love it. “I was excited because it was totally opposite from last year’s performance,” Kat Kreischer said. “It provided a new challenge and gave everyone a lot of opportunities.” In addition to Kreischer, the cast included: senior, Jaime Wright, senior Eric Cuevas, senior Taylor James, senior Dionna Eshleman, sophomore Anthony Reyes, junior Alex Buda, and junior Nadege Hoeper. “From an ordinary point of view, the show seems comical and over the top, but the moral of the story has a powerful underlying meaning - sometimes green glass can be more valuable than an emerald,” Wright, Hoeper and Kreischer agreed. The weekend production is over and underclassmen are already looking forward to next year’s production. However, for seniors, it is goodbye to DV drama club, and hello to college theater. “Though I still have a lot to learn about theater, I am confident I will be able to pursue it because I got my start at DV drama,” Eshleman said.