"Thoroughly Modern Millie," winner of six Tony Awards including "Best Musical," sashays audiences to the heyday of jazz, when "Moderns" like flapper Millie Dillmount were shocking 1920s New Yorkers. Very promising, if you're

into the song-and-dance thing. (Tues., Sept. 2 through Sept. 9, The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts, Hartford. Tickets, $16 and up at (860) 987-5900.)

Prints by internationally renowned portrait photographer Diane Arbus will be presented in a new exhibition, "Family Album," which depicts ordinary people-couples, siblings, grandmothers-during the societal tulmult at the end of the 1960s. (Tues., Sept 2. through Dec. 7, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke College.)

Scottish rockers Mogwai will tear up Northampton with Stuart Braithwaite's daring guitar work. Their punky 1999 album, "Come on Die Young," won them comparisons to Sonic Youth. Now they are likened to Radiohead and Sigur Rós-these blokes are worth a look. (Fri., Sept. 5, 8:30 p.m., Pearl Street Nightclub. Tickets $13.50 at 586-8686.)

Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright may be the only man singing today who can let loose a long, low, aching wail and seem all the hipper for it. A bold sentimentalist who peppers tunes of love and longing with smart, blackish humor whose last album, "Poses," was a bit of a disappointment, is previewing tracks from his new, unreleased album, "Want One," on his current tour. (Sat., Sept. 6, 8 p.m., Ridgefield Playhouse, Ridgefield, Conn. Tickets $35 at (203) 438-4519.)

Pulitizer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horowitz will discuss his latest book, "Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before," in which he creates an intimate portrait of the greatest navigator in British history. (Mon., Sept. 8, 7 p.m., Mary Woolley Hall, Mount Holyoke.)

In the "The Italian Job," a remake of the eponymous 1969 heist film releasing tonight at the Cinemark, Edward Norton, who can act, takes a backseat to Mark Wahlberg, who is pretty. If you want fast money, guns, the Mob and more Edward, try "Rounders," the 1998 poker thriller in which Norton plays a down-and-out card shark, Worm, who entices his law-school friend Mike (Matt Damon) back to the felt tables to play the game of his life. Norton's trademark Jekyll-and-Hyde acting is in its prime-his alluring, dopey-eyed grin turns into a grimace of despair on a dime. Machine-gunned hot-shot lingo ("folded on Fourth Street," "flopped a nut straight") and John Malkovich as a tracksuit-wearing and furious Russian named Teddy KGB sweeten the pot.