Erin Dilly millie
Erin Dilly millie
#1Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/17/15 at 10:15pm
This may have been asked before, but I couldn't find any threads that were more recent. I just want to know why Erin Dilly was replaced in rehearsals (before I go on I just want to say that I'm in love with sutton and I wouldn't be able to see anyone else as Millie besides her) the stories that I've read just don't seem plausible that they would replace her out of nowhere just, because she was sick or injured. What I'm trying is, if there was any shade going on that made Erin dilly get fired.
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#3Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/17/15 at 10:43pm
I don't know, but wouldn't it have been so fun to say Erin Dilly in "Thoroughly Modern Millie"?
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#4Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/17/15 at 11:21pm
Erin was sick during previews and also sucked in the role so Sutton, her understudy, went on and blew them away. However, they offered the role to Kristin Chenoweth for Broadway since she was more of a name and already won a Tony but she was in LA doing a tv show. They ended up offering the role to Sutton. The end.
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#5Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/17/15 at 11:27pm
"Erin was sick during previews and also sucked in the role so Sutton, her understudy, went on and blew them away. However, they offered the role to Kristin Chenoweth for Broadway since she was more of a name and already won a Tony but she was in LA doing a tv show. They ended up offering the role to Sutton. The end. "
Chenoweth had done the workshop but passed on the role for her sitcom "Kristin," Dilly was her original replacement.
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#6Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/17/15 at 11:35pm
Yea and then the sitcom got canceled, they offered her the role again for Broadway but she turned it down again cause she got another TV show which also lasted a second
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#7Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 12:31am
What second TV show are you talking about? Wikipedia doesn't say anything about any recurring roles on television between Kristin and the West Wing, and there were 3 years in between the two.
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#8Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 1:12am
It's funny to think about this because in reality, Erin and Kristin are really close friends. I wonder if she had anything do do with Erin's casting (i.e. "I can't do it, but this person would be great." type thing). I never believed that stuff about Dilly being fired due to behavior (unless she has become more grounded since the La Jolla Millie), because she is one of the nicest most genuine people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Does anyone know of any bootleg audio of Dilly in the role (did she ever perform it for an audience)? I'd love to hear what her take was. Or better yet are there any first hand accounts of Erin in the role?
#9Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 1:16am
There is a La Jolla bootleg but it's Sutton.
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#10Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 3:37am
She's done lots of tv
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#11Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 5:39am
"Yea and then the sitcom got canceled, they offered her the role again for Broadway but she turned it down again cause she got another TV show which also lasted a second
No, they didn't.
Updated On: 8/18/15 at 05:39 AM#12Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 5:52am
sutton wasn't offered the role for broadway right away. they still tried getting someone else
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#13Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 7:27am
Erin Dilly never appeared in a public performance, so there would be bootlegs unless something was recorded during a rehearsal.
#14Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 7:39am
She didn't perform because she was sick right? I mean there has to be more to the story. Eventually she would have gotten better and been able to perform or was that really it? Sutton was better so they fired Erin?
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#15Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 7:41am
I have no idea. I wasn't in the room, and unlike you, I don't pretend to know things I couldn't possibly know. The press from the time states that Dilly left the show by mutual agreement with the creative team.
#16Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 7:46am
What!? I said what I know. Did I claim to know everything? No. And it was mutually agreed upon
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#17Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 8:21amI remember Sutton being on The View recently and Whoopi talking about how she was a producer on Millie. She said the original girl in the role wasn't good (Sutton looked embarrassed that Whoopi would publicly state that), and when they saw Sutton do it, everything just clicked.
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#18Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 8:27am
What!? I said what I know. Did I claim to know everything? No. And it was mutually agreed upon
You have stated multiple lies in this thread. GET THE F*CK OUT.
Updated On: 8/18/15 at 08:27 AM
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#19Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 8:56am
What!? I said what I know. Did I claim to know everything? No.
You frequently just make SH*T up to make yourself sound like you're some kind of insider, even though you were probably still in diapers when Millie was having its tryout in La Jolla. On this thread alone, you already claimed that Erin was sick during previews (she already left the show before previews), that she sucked in the role (how would you know?), that they offer Chenoweth the role (inaccurate), and then you backtracked when you were presented with actual facts.
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#20Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 9:25am
Here's a Playbill.com report from the time. Dilly was indeed out before the show played a performance at La Jolla so the "Erin sucked during previews" comment is not accurate. The public never saw her in the role.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/no-more-dilly-millie-sutton-foster-takes-la-jolla-role-92091
My own theory: Erin Dilly is a wonderful performer, but tends to play ingenues, like Belle and Truly Scrumptious. It seems like they might have cast her and realized they wound up with two Miss Dorothys.
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Updated On: 8/18/15 at 09:25 AM
#21Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 9:28am
"My own theory: Erin Dilly is a wonderful performer, but tends to play ingenues, like Belle and Truly Scrumptious. It seems like they might have cast her and realized they wound up with two Miss Dorothys."
I completely agree with you, Smaxie.
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#22Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 12:50pm
I didn't know Pat Carroll was originally slated to play Mrs. Meers, I would've LOVED to have seen that!
#23Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 12:53pm
I saw her as Mrs. Meers in La Jolla and she was fantastic. Deadpan and sinister. I actually have not seen any incarnation of Millie before or since, so I'm not sure why they felt the Asian costuming drag was necessary (even if it's a character choice).
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#24Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 1:58pm
"What second TV show are you talking about? Wikipedia doesn't say anything about any recurring roles on television between Kristin and the West Wing, and there were 3 years in between the two."
I am sure after her 1st TV show was canceled she probably stayed in Hollywood to film several TV pilots that never got pick up by the networks. That is way you dont see anything listed on her Wikipedia about it.
Updated On: 8/18/15 at 01:58 PM
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#25Erin Dilly millie
Posted: 8/18/15 at 2:05pm
"I remember Sutton being on The View recently and Whoopi talking about how she was a producer on Millie. She said the original girl in the role wasn't good (Sutton looked embarrassed that Whoopi would publicly state that), and when they saw Sutton do it, everything just clicked."
Here is that interview on The View it starts at 2:45
