Erin Dilly- Page 2

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/13/13 at 11:30pm

Phew. Finally the heats off of me.
#KristenVigard

Like, you think you invented getting fired?
#JosiedeGuzman

A girl can get a nice swimming pool from being fired.
#PattiLuPone

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 5/13/13 at 11:44pm

I thought Erin part Millie on her own? Which is why I found the quote inaccurate. But, what normal jee would know that?


Updated On: 5/14/13 at 11:44 PM

[all that jazz]

Posted: 5/13/13 at 11:49pm

OMG!! I can't believe this is a thing!! Her name was mentioned on National television, she and her husband should be grateful. I bet the majority of the people watching didn't know she even existed, so they did her a big favor. Granted, not the nicest way to be introduced to a national audience, but still publicity nonetheless.

I thought the line was very appropriate for the situation.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:06am

Oh, Jesus.

[John Adams]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:18am

They also gave Lin-Manuel Miranda a "hit and run" line about Jonathan Groff swearing like a trouper...

Anyone checked his FB page?
...Nothing? hmmm...

I e-mailed NBC to register my outrage. They've agreed to take the show off the air as penance for their grievous error.

Updated On: 5/14/13 at 12:18 AM

[LucyEth]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:24am

The Broadway community -- those who actually work on Broadway as opposed to the posters here who only wish they did (and make bitchy comments about her husband's grammar, of all things?!) -- adores Erin Dilly. She is, hands down, one of the sweetest, most generous actresses working on the boards today. You will not find a single person who has ever met and/or worked with her who would say differently. A show that claims to celebrate the community should display better taste and tact when mentioning actual working professionals and blurring the line between "fact" and fiction. Particularly when the "fact" is inaccurate and misleading. I'm very surprised that those members of the community who are currently on the show -- including Sutton Foster's ex-husband, interestingly enough -- didn't raise more strenuous objections. "Smash" one of us, you "smash" us all. Perhaps we're better off that the show has been cancelled.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:30am

You're delusional if you don't think people who work in the industry post on this board and do so with regularity.

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:31am

Jordan, Kerry o'malley had a lot to say on the subject.

[LucyEth]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:33am

Perhaps I am delusional, JC. But I can almost guarantee that none of the negative posters on this thread have ever met or worked with Erin. No-one who has could be anything but supportive and appalled by what they heard on national television the other night.

Updated On: 5/14/13 at 12:33 AM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:34am

OMG!! I can't believe this is a thing!! Her name was mentioned on National television, she and her husband should be grateful. I bet the majority of the people watching didn't know she even existed, so they did her a big favor. Granted, not the nicest way to be introduced to a national audience, but still publicity nonetheless.

I thought the line was very appropriate for the situation.

So you wouldn't be at all upset if a nationally aired television show made claims about you that were clearly false?

Frankly, average Joe probably has no idea who Erin Dilly is and I doubt her reputation has been marred. But, within the history of Broadway I'm sure there are enough true cases of a performer not bouncing back from the scenerio suggested. There was simply no need to bring her name into it. It just comes across as mean-spirited.

Updated On: 5/14/13 at 12:34 AM

[John Adams]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:42am

>> "A show that claims to celebrate the community should display better taste and tact when mentioning actual working professionals and blurring the line between "fact" and fiction."

...and that's why it's off the air (IMO). The writers never really did a good job of mapping the "real" Broadway onto the fictional world of SMASH. If it's any consolation to Ms. Dilly (who I'm sure is as fine a woman as you say) or her husband,
<---- This Guy won't suffer any great loss over the absence.

If it weren't for her husband's outburst, and now this thread about it, I would not have even remembered Ms. Dilly was mentioned in the episode (or the Jonathan Groff line, for that matter). The show is just not that good - in one ear and out the other... Updated On: 5/14/13 at 12:42 AM

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:44am

What did Borle's character say about Lin, under his breath, after he slammed GET IT ON to his face?

[LucyEth]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 12:50am

He said something along the lines of "hate you..." But Lin-Manuel obviously approved the script and was a good sport about it. No-one called Erin to ask if they could erroneously trash her career.

Updated On: 5/14/13 at 12:50 AM

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 2:20am

I agree with those who blame the writing. If the scripts were sharper and the lines between fiction and fact were better handled, this would never happen, Actors would be glad to be made fun of (as some were), but they lacked the wit needed.
Michael McGrath on FB:
"I would have told them to stick that script up their ass before I would disparage a fellow Actor"
Now, that's a good line.

Updated On: 5/14/13 at 02:20 AM

[John Adams]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 2:23am

>> "No-one called Erin to ask if they could erroneously trash her career."

There's just no need for anyone to be so upset over this (at least not for any length of time). Sure, the writing was tabloid-level, but that ONE line from SMASH will be long forgotten by mid-summer, if not sooner. (Unless this thread lasts longer...)

Every actor knows they're as good as their last job. Ms. Dilly's career is far from "trashed". I doubt very much that she will be spoken of as "that actress who got mentioned on SMASH".

...and if she should be, I'm pretty certain the response would be, "Which one?"

Updated On: 5/14/13 at 02:23 AM

[viola13]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 2:39am

Not about Erin Dilly, but Lin-Manuel improvised the line about Jon Groff, according to his twitter.

So real talk: the Groffsauce mention, the twitter mention, and Borle's "I...hate you" were all improvised on set. #GROFFSAUCE

https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/333442278108585985

[LucyEth]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 2:43am

Bravo for Michael McGrath, a class act all the way.

[ullabelt]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 5:21am

I think its perfectly acceptable that those CHARACTERS would say that. Its not a documentary its fiction it is just the opinion of two fictional people on a fictional tv show.

And theres a bit of 'the lady doth protest too much' with Stephen Buntrock

[all that jazz]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 7:50am

Lucy, you consider a class act someone who talks about sticking scripts up the writers asses? I appreciate his intent, but it could've been said in a classier way.

I agree with Ullabelt. This is a broadway themed show, and as such it should include broadway stories and legends, and the Sutton Foster success story is a really fascinating one.

Anna is being replaced by her understudy and is paranoid about having her understudy replace her ala Sutton. What's so horribly tacky about that?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 9:24am

I think we should start a Kickstarter campaign to fund intensive therapy for the Dilly family,

PS Goth's tweets capture the tragedy of this situation eloquently.

Updated On: 5/14/13 at 09:24 AM

[Kelly2]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 9:34am

"What's so horribly tacky about that?"

Because the implication was that being replaced by Sutton ended Erin Dilly's career. That is quite simply not the case. As has been mentioned on this thread, she's a Tony nominee who's had leading roles in two Broadway shows just in the past year. It's an inaccurate statement and a pretty thoughtless one. They could've found a more appropriate, and funnier, way to make their point.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 9:36am

"The Broadway community -- those who actually work on Broadway as opposed to the posters here who only wish they did (and make bitchy comments about her husband's grammar, of all things?!) "

HAHAHAH exctly! The negative posters on here are so Jaded, its Quite Hysterical really.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 9:36am

Exactly. I'm just sad at this point that millions of people across the world who didn't know who Erin Dilly was before that episode aired, still don't know who Erin Dilly is.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 9:54am

Kelly, I understand your point. But hers is the quintessential story of being replaced by and understudy who went on to become a star, at least in recent memory. I guess Carol Haney's example could have been used as well, but it's not as fresh, as Erin's.

And Jordan is right, the people outside of the Broadway community won't care about it, and the people inside, as other posters have mentioned, know who she really is.

[Kelly2]

Posted: 5/14/13 at 9:56am

I don't think it's as huge a deal as some are making it, but if I were her, I'd probably be a little chuffed about it.