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Ashley Park is on a mission to makeThoroughly Modern Millie, well, more modern.

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production of Jeanine Tesori and Dick Scanlans 2002 musical.

(She co-stars in the Netflix reboot, out this Friday.).

One of its main conflicts involves Mrs. Meers, a white woman posing as an old Asian woman.

Meers runs a hotel that serves as a front for a human trafficking scheme.

This production will feature rewrites from the creative team.

In the end, she wants this Encores!

productions journey to lead to a show with intention as well as the spirit that it already has.

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