Gone With the Wind Musical
Gone With the Wind Musical
Fan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#1Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:45pm
(Plus a note on Dreamgirls)
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,253818,00.html
>Hugh Jackman Eyed for 'Gone With the Wind' Broadway Role
Thursday, February 22, 2007
By Roger Friedman
'Gone With the Wind' Remake; 'Dreamgirls' Lawsuit Avoided; Pre-Oscar Partying; Hollywood Swinging
'Gone With the Wind' Musical Coming
Get ready: A musical based on Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind” is being prepared for Broadway.
I’m told that a group of producers have secured the rights from the Mitchell estate and are proceeding toward a 2008 production. The big desired star to play Rhett Butler: Hugh Jackman.
I’m also told that producers are interested in Jill Pace, an American actress who co-starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Woman in White,” to play Scarlett O’Hara. Pace, a popular up-and-comer, is said to resemble Vivien Leigh. The show would have its birth in London’s West End.
As it’s planned now, this version of “Gone with the Wind” will adhere to the novel more than the well-known film, still considered the all-time box office champ based on adjusted figures from 1939.
That means that this “GWTW” will be a little darker than remembered, with the story told through the eyes of the slaves at Tara.
“If you remember, Scarlett is really left with the slaves, and they become her family,” a production insider says. “That will be more of the emphasis of the story, with Rhett more of a darker, more complicated character.”
“Gone with the Wind” has somehow avoided being turned into a musical all these many years. There have been parodies — think Carol Burnett — and recently a play about the casting of the movie, but until now the Mitchell estate has never allowed this prized possession to be set to music.<<<
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#2re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:46pm
"but until now the Mitchell estate has never allowed this prized possession to be set to music."
I think the Harold Rome estate will beg to differ.
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Updated On: 2/22/07 at 03:46 PM
#2re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:48pmOoops... sorry, Fan 2, we obviously posted at the same time.
#3re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:48pm
HAven't there been some Musiclaizations done in the past-IIRC a Japanese production was done.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#4re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 3:53pm
"...with the story told through the eyes of the slaves at Tara."
That is just painful.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.
#5re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 4:20pm
"Scarlett" was the Japanese production.
Hey, Fox isnt always the most accurate.
http://docandraider.com
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#6re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 4:42pm
"but until now the Mitchell estate has never allowed this prized possession to be set to music"
Not true ... there was a musical version of GWTW (using the same title) in London back in the 70s I believe. I have the original cast album.
#7re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 4:53pmThere have been two musical versions of it, and a ballet. I wish they'd bring back the tacky 70s musical version of it. I want to hear Lilias White sing "Bonnie Gone!"
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#8re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 4:55pm
BONNIE GONE
BONNIE DONE GONE
BONNIE, BONNIE GONE!!
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.
#9re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 5:12pm"Told through the eyes of the slaves.." - I just read that part. Honey, that is not the way the book is. Who wrote this article? Must be drunk or a yankee...
thtrbear
Leading Actor Joined: 10/13/06
#10re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 5:27pm
That was funny about the Rome estate begging to differ.
Are there really 2 prior musical versions? Or did the poster who said that think that Scarlett and London's GWTW were different? (No offense meant if there really are 2 prior musicals)
Wouldn't it be funny if the people they hired now, went away for a few months and then turned in the Harold Rome musical? (Book by Horton Foote?) You could only do that for a while though...
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#11re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 5:28pm..."told through the eyes of the slaves" is wrong on so many levels..unless they are doing a musical of the novella THE WIND DONE GONE by Alice Randall...thats a different matter!
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.
#12re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 5:30pmThere is the Harold Rome version from the 70s and a few years ago a horrifying French pop opera version with all the women wearing inappropriate off the shoulder period dresses.
#13re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 5:32pm
Bonnie Done Gone? Wow.
That sounds fun, MB--who doesn't love inappropriate period costume?
Fontybell
Chorus Member Joined: 1/5/06
#14re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 5:38pm
There is NO ONE NO ONE NO ONE who should be playing Scarlett other than the absolutely perfect for that role HAVILAND STILLWELL.
www.havilandstillwell.com - check this out. Seriously.
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#15re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 5:39pm
The Harold Rome version is a guilty pleasure of mine. About a thousand years ago I worked at the Music Center. The archivists knew I was obsessed with GWTW, so they gave me an old press kit.
In the program Pernell Roberts used his bio space to have a poem about world peace printed.
In Lesley Ann Warren's bio she was STILL complaining about her parents not letting her go on the first national tour of BYE BYE BIRDIE.
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.
Updated On: 2/23/07 at 05:39 PM
#16re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 5:41pm
In addition to Harold Rome's version and the French opera, Leroy Anderson attempted to musicalize it, in 1961, only getting as far as setting 3 numbers.
[EDIT] Tried to post the link but it didn't work:
http://www.answers.com/topic/gone-with-the-wind-musical-unfinished-3-numbers-extant
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
Updated On: 2/22/07 at 05:41 PM
#17re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 5:59pmWe were unlucky to have a muical version of GWTW here in Paris about three years ago. It was just painful to watch even if some musics were great. In here we call it "Autant en emporte le vent". The guy who wrote it is well known over here for having written Romeo & Juliette and letting his daughter play the part of Scarlett.
In my heart, I found the answered dream,
and in my soul I found the song, and in my friends
I found the magic, the love,
the moon up above- they were mine, all mine, all along..!
#18re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 6:07pm"Autant en emporte le vent" has to be seen to be believed - and you know which site I'm talking about. You never know they could work a disco ball and breakdancing into Margaret Mitchell's story, but leave it to the French...
#19re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 6:12pmthe songs by the slaves are great but what is left is just painful to hear. And once again in those productions we had no orchestra but a recording that was so loud I could not understand what they were singing.
In my heart, I found the answered dream,
and in my soul I found the song, and in my friends
I found the magic, the love,
the moon up above- they were mine, all mine, all along..!
thtrbear
Leading Actor Joined: 10/13/06
#20re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 6:26pm
Wanna trade theater unions with New York? Please?
#21re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 7:36pm
YOu have the original cast album? How did you get it and where can I find it? I know Robert Nichols who I beleiver was on a version, don't know which one!
"Now the best way to learn the theater, always, is to be a stage manager"
-Stephen Sondheim
Updated On: 2/22/07 at 07:36 PM
#22re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 7:39pm
This is such a case of the horse leading the cart. They already have a general production date and yet it appears they haven't chosen writers yet. It reminds of that line from Song and Dance:
"Careers are being hyped before the scripts are typed".
With this kind of a start the camp value ought to be through the roof!
....but the world goes 'round
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#23re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 8:54pmThe OLC was released on LP back in the 70s, and the Japanese version "Scarlett" had at least a brief CD life by DRG, I think.
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#24re: Gone With the Wind Musical
Posted: 2/22/07 at 8:57pm
The London Version screams for a CD release
It is not half bad
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