THE award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie reaches the Sunderland Empire stage for one week only, April 10-14, with actress Hayley Tamaddon (Coronation Street, Emmerdale and Dancing on Ice Star) taking on the title role of Millie Dilmount, a Kansas girl determined to make it big in New York City!

What's On has teamed up with Sunderland Empire to offer one lucky winner a pair of tickets to opening night!

Winner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie is based on the 1967 Academy Award-winning film. Taking you back to the height of the Jazz Age in 1920s New York City, when ‘moderns’ including a flapper named Millie Dillmount, were bobbing their hair, raising their hemlines, entering the workforce and rewriting the rules of love.

Hayley Tamaddon is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Del Dingle in Emmerdale and Andrea Beckett in Coronation Street and for winning the fifth series of ITV1’s Dancing on Ice. So get set for explosive tap numbers to a ‘Fred and Ginger’ dance routine on a window ledge, and featuring hit songs including Gimme Gimme and Not for the Life of Me, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a brilliantly funny and entertaining show for all the family.

To enter our competition, simply tell us in which US city is the story set?

The winner will receive one pair of tickets to the performance of Thoroughly Modern Millie on Tuesday, April 10, (7.30pm). Tickets are non-transferable and no monetary value will be given. Don't delay your entry... because the prize is for opening night, next Tuesday, entries must reach us by 5pm on Sunday, April 8. Ideally, send your entry to ents@nne.co.uk, with Thoroughly Modern Millie Competition in the subject line. Please remember we'll need your full name and include a telephone number on which you can be reached quickly; it would also be nice to know what part of the region you are enterting from. Alternatively, mail/deliver your entry to Thoroughly Modern Millie Competition, The Northern Echo, PO Box 14, Priestgate, Darlington, DL1 1NF.

  • Tickets available in person at the Box Office on High Street West, from the Ticket Centre on 0844 871 3022* or online at http://www.ATGtickets.com/Sunderland. Calls cost 7p per minute plus your plus your phone company's access charge. Booking and transaction fees may apply.