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23 February 2007

GONE WITH THE WIND MUSICAL PLANNED

Posted in: Entertainment — PR-inside Entertainment News @ 9:13 pm

Movie epic GONE WITH THE WIND is set to hit the West End and Broadway stages as a major new musical with HUGH JACKMAN playing romantic hero RHETT BUTLER.
The X-MEN star is in talks to lead the ambitious production, based on MARGARET MITCHELL’s classic Civil War saga, according to Fox News.
Sources claim producers are hoping to launch the stage spectacular in London next year (08), before transferring to New York.

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    • 4 comments »

    1. 1. Gone With the Wind…A MUSICAL???? I simply cannot imagine Rhett Butler spontaneously breaking into song. I also cannot imagine Scarlett O’Hara starting to sing out her emotions, it doesn’t work….at all!!
      The people who casted the movie Gone With the Wind casted it the way they did because Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable were and are the only people for the roles. It would be an insult to the movie, to Margaret Mitchell and to Vivien and Clark to make the book/movie into a musical, you. Gone With the Wind is a classic, you just DONT touch classics.

      Comment by Emily Feltham — April 23, 2007 @ 9:37 pm

    2. Some of the publicity for this planned GWTW musical suggests that it has never been a musical before! WRONG! A musical version ran in London at Drury Lane for a year in 1972-73 and then toured in the states with Lesley Anne Warren as Scarlett.The score was by Harold Rome. It was a very spectacular production. I saw it several times and had the soundtrack album for years!

      Comment by andrew hodgson — May 15, 2007 @ 10:47 pm

    3. I saw it in London’s Drury Lane in May 1972. Spectacular.

      Comment by Mervin Lass — June 2, 2007 @ 3:25 am

    4. I saw it at the Drury Lane. It was wonderful.
      Layton’s directing was superb, June Ritchie & esp. Harve Presnell were marvelous.
      I had the album & listened to it with great pleasure for many years. I no longer have it & would very much like to have it again. IF ANYONE OUT THERE HAS A COPY OR KNOWS HOW I CAN GET A COPY OF THE ALBUM (or any version of the soundtrack) PLEASE WRITE ME at: MerryMoose@Moose.net

      Comment by Merry — December 23, 2007 @ 3:32 am

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