Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. - Oscar Hammerstein
Desiree should be cast with someone with european sensibility. She needs to be elegant, warm, comfortable in her sexuality with the ability to funny with the lightest of comic touches. Very hard to cast.
re: Von Smith singing AIATY on THE VIEW Feb 28
2007, 02:48:05 PM
How many thousands of little gay boys have sung that song behind closed doors? Von Smith is just living out every show princess's fantasy. I thought he was great fun.
re: Gone With the Wind Musical Feb 23
2007, 06:57:50 PM
I think GONE WITH THE WIND needs the dignified wise ol' slave to soften the harsh reminder that these people are owned.
The happy selfless negro helping the troubled white man is FOREVER recycled.. even up to today.
Sure Mammy is wise. She may even be smarter than her owners. But you don't give a damn that she is a slave...why? Because she is seemingly content in her servitude. This is what GONE WITH THE WIND sells you.
re: Gone With the Wind Musical Feb 23
2007, 05:20:53 PM
True. It is not fundamentally about slavery.. but the issue of having or not having slaves weighs into the plot a wee bit with the whole civil war thing.
I suppose you could reset it in France during one of their revolutionary wars. Call it LES MIS 2.
