Other works

Played the starring role of Dorothy in the hit Broadway show 'The Wiz' for four years.

(1974) Film: "A Piece of the Action." Mills appeared in a 27 minute short film produced by the Engineers Council for Professional Development (ECPD) where Ben Vereen and minority students use music and rap sessions to inform other students that attractive career opportunities in engineering and related technical fields are available to them. The short, sponsored by a grant from General Electric, was also shown on television.

(May 1999) Stage play: Ragtime. Mills and John Davidson join the cast of the Chicago production of the stage musical at the Oriental Theatre. Chicago Tribune theatre critic Richard Christiansen comments "James Stovall...his big, warm voice works wonders, overwhelming in solo and beautiful in sweet harmony with Stephanie Mills, who now portrays Coalhouse's beloved Sarah. One would expect them to do well in their big "Wheels of a Dream" song, but, more than that, they turn their gentle, second-act "Sarah Brown Eyes" into a piercingly emotional duet."

(July 30, 1998) Stage play: Purlie - Mills appears as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins, in a concert version of the musical at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. Dorian Harewood, Larry Storch, Reginald VelJohnson and Clarice Taylor also star in the limited run (5 performances) engagement.

(October 23, 1968) Stage play: Maggie Flynn - as Pansy, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York City. Mills makes her Broadway debut in an original musical starring Shirley Jones as a woman caring for the orphaned children of runaway slaves in 1863 New York City. Along with Mills, Irene Cara and Giancarlo Esposito also appeared as orphans.

(April 1987) Stage play: To Sir With Love - Mills appeared as Doretta in a workshop version of a musical play based on the E.R. Braithwaite novel (and 1967 film) at the Aquarius Theatre in Los Angeles. Produced by Lawrence Kasha & Marvin A. Krauss, book and direction by Ken Page, songs by Ron Abel and Chuck Steffan with choreography by Michael Peters along with 'Dorian Harewood' (as Sir), Charlotte d'Amboise and Thelma Lee. Plans to take the show to Broadway in the fall of 1988 were unsuccessful.

(November 1999) Stage play: Play On! - Mills played Vy in this revival of the 1997 musical adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Twelfth Night featuring songs by Duke Ellington at the Crossroads Theater Company in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Leslie Uggams and Glenn Turner also starred in the play, under the direction of André De Shields.

(September 1988) Stage play: Harlem Suite - Mills, as Stephanie, replaces Jennifer Holliday in the touring production of the musical play which spotlights 50 years of Harlem song & dance, from 1925 to 1975. Maurice Hines is the shows director, choreographer and star. Melba Moore later takes over for Mills on the tour.

(October 2005) Stage play: If This Hat Could Talk - Mills plays legendary civil rights activist Dr. Dorothy I. Height in an original musical play; written, directed & choreographed by George Faison, with songs by Joe Coleman. After opening at the famed Apollo Theatre in New York City the show toured through June 2006. Melba Moore later joined the tour in the role of Mary McLeod Bethune. The shows title refers to Height's "stalwart eloquence and elegant head-wear" in a musical "of passion, power and triumph."

(April 2000) Stage play: His Woman, His Wife -as Denise. Mills begins a national tour of the David E. Talbert play with music. Tony Terry, Lecresia Campbell and LaShonda Reese costar.

(December 2002) Stage play: Nativity: A Life Story - Mills played Mary in a retelling of the biblical Christmas story with songs and dances inspired by Langston Hughes's Black Nativity." The limited run at the Shomberg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem also included Phylicia Rashad, BeBe Winans, Freddie Jackson and Keith David in the cast. The show was recorded and a CD was released. Mills returned to the role for the 2003 Christmas run of the show.

(November 14, 1997 - December 14, 1997) She appeared as Eve in the Stephen Schwartz musical, "Children of Eden," at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey with Darius de Haas, Hunter Foster, Kelli Rabke, William Solo and Adrian Zmed in the cast. Robert Johanson was director, Dawn Dipasquale was choreographer, Danny Kosarin was musical director, Danny Kosarin was scenic designer, Jack Mehler was lighting designer and Gregg Barnes was costume designer.