Erin Dilly millie

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.

I don't know, but wouldn't it have been so fun to say Erin Dilly in "Thoroughly Modern Millie"?

"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.

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.

There is a La Jolla bootleg but it's Sutton.

"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

Erin Dilly never appeared in a public performance, so there would be bootlegs unless something was recorded during a rehearsal.

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.

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.

"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.

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).

"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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSjUhbQL5qQ