Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
#1Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 7:12amSo stumble across this cd and its kristen chenoweth in throughly modern millie workshop, what happened
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#2re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 7:23am
Yes, Kristen was supposed to be Millie. Then she got offered her TV show (I think, but it might have been the ABC Music Man) and had to drop out of the project. The role went to Erin Dilly, but during tryouts at La Jolla, it was decided to replace Dilly with her understudy (Sutton Foster). The rest is history.
I know there is a link somewhere that has the whole history, but I wasn't able to find it.
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#2re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 7:55amI thought Kristen was supposed to be Miss Dorothy originally
#3re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 8:21amIt seems like that SHOULD have been the role for her, but it was supposed to be Millie.
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#4re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 8:41amNo, she's said in an interview it was supposed to be Miss Dorothy.
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#5re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 8:47amin the song forget about the boy she is singing millie's stuff but then she sing other parts as well...
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#6re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 9:10am
VERY interesting . . .
It depends on where you look. At this site it says Millie:
http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/kristin_chenoweth/index.shtml
At this one it says Dorothy:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155693/bio
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#7re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:16amDid you mean to write "Was Kristen Chenoweth SUPPOSED to play Millie?" What did you do, attend public school?
#8re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 10:27am
They initially brought Chenoweth in to read for Miss Dorothy. Over the course of several auditions, they decided to try and have her come back in for Millie, and eventually gave her that role instead.
As another poster said, when her pilot at NBC was picked up, she dropped out of the project and the role went to Erin Dilly, who was later replaced by Sutton Foster.
"The Girl in 14G," a song that had been written specifically to cater to Chenoweth's talents during the last workshop, was scrapped when she decided not to go further with the show. It has now become a staple in Chenoweth's set.
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#9re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 2:00pm"The Girl 14-G" was meant to be in Millie? WEIRD.
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#10re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 2:21pm
I could never see her as Millie, I could see her as Ms. Miss Dorothy, but today I feel like that is not a big enough role for her.
She was also engaged to Kudish during this time and then that ended.
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#11re: Was Kristen Chenoweth suppose to play MIllie?
Posted: 1/5/07 at 3:04pmi think erin would have been amazing
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