Christina Ricci in Talks for B'way Hitchcock Blonde

Broadway.com has learned that film star Christina Ricci is in talks to appear in the Broadway production of Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde, which is aiming for a spring berth. As we previously reported, Jane Krakowski has been offered the role of the Blonde in the mounting.

Ricci made her professional acting debut in the 1990 film Mermaids opposite Cher and Winona Ryder. Her other film credits include The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, Casper, Now and Then, That Darn Cat, The Ice Storm, Buffalo '66, Far and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Opposite of Sex, 200 Cigarettes, Pecker, Sleepy Hollow, Bless the Child, Pumpkin, Anything Else and Monster. Ricci was also featured in a recurring role on TV's Ally McBeal.

Hitchcock Blonde weaves together three stories to tell a tale of desire and intrigue. The stories each take place 40 years apart, beginning in 1919, While Krakowski's Blonde who is supposedly Janet Leigh's body double for the Psycho shower scene factors into the 1959 storyline, Ricci's character, Nicola, is in the 1999 storyline. Alex is a tough young student who gets caught up in the mystery of Hitchock and her professor's lies.

Hitchcock Blonde, directed by the author, ran at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs last spring before transferring to the West End's Lyric Theatre for a June 16 through September 20 run. In those mountings Rosamunde Pike best known as Miranda Frost in the James Bond flick, Die Another Day appeared as the Blonde and Fiona Glascott was featured as Nicola.

Producer Ted Tulchin would not comment on any casting for the upcoming Hitchcock Blonde production.