Joe Alessi Joins MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS at Nottingham Playhouse
By: Stephi Wild
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The cast of Nottingham Playhouse's upcoming hysterical comedy Moonlight and Magnolias has been revealed - and it includes Coronation Street and EastEnders star Joe Alessi.
Alessi - who recently played villain Kel Hinchley on the popular soap cobbles, following a stint on EastEnders - will be playing legendary Hollywood film producer David O.Selznick. His other theatre credits include Fatherland (Frantic Assembly) and Dr Seuss's The Lorax (Old Vic). He appeared in the Playhouse's critically acclaimed production of Robert Lepage's Polygraph in 2003. Three weeks into filming Selznick famously scrapped the Gone With The Wind script, tasking a new director and screenwriter with creating a brand new one from scratch. Hilariously they only had five days to achieve cinematic magic. Moonlight and Magnolias speculates what happened when a studio boss had to take drastic action - locking his new creatives in his office with a typewriter, a novel and just peanuts and bananas for food.
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