Erin Dilly Tapped for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Erin Dilly looks likely to play Truly Scrumptious in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, according to Variety. As we previously reported, Marc Kudisch and Jan Maxwell have also won roles in the upcoming Broadway mounting of the tuner.

Dilly has appeared on the Great White Way in Follies, The Boys From Syracuse and Into the Woods. Her other theater credits include an acclaimed turn in the City Center Encores! production of Babes in Arms and national tours of Martin Guerre, Beauty and the Beast and South Pacific.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the musical adaptation of the 1968 movie of the same name, centers on an eccentric inventor, Caractacus Potts, who has a flying car. Though Potts is happy just using the special car for family trips, others have more sinister aims, including the Baron and Baroness of Vulgaria, who are desperately trying to steal the automobile.

Adapted for the stage from Ian Fleming's original text by Jeremy Sams, the musical Chitty features a score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, who wrote the film's songs. Adrian Noble directs and Gillian Lynne choreographs. The musical, which was a hit in London, will begin previews at Broadway's Ford Center for the Performing Arts on March 29, 2005 in preparation for an April 28, 2005 opening.

No casting has been officially confirmed for the Broadway production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.