Gone With the Wind? Northwest Arkansas News isn’t thrilled!
Just found this gem of a reaction to the new production of Gone with the Wind that’s hitting the boards next month:
NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas’ News Source
ATLANTA — Talk about holding a grudge.One day you toss the tyrannical mother country’s load of tea into Boston Harbor. The next — give or take some 235 years — she retaliates by turning your beloved Gone With the Wind into a musical.
A musical where Melanie sings a ditty called “Desperate Times” after Scarlett kills that nasty Yankee soldier who tried to get into her pantaloons. Fingers crossed there’ll also be tap-dancing !
Gone With the Wind: The Musical, is the brainchild of a novice playwright from Southern California who spent two years creating songs before she even approached author Margaret Mitchell’s estate for rights to the book. It stars American actress Jill Paice (Broadway’s Curtains ) as Scarlett O’Hara and Scotsman Darius Danesh as South Carolina Lowcountry native Rhett Butler.
Mostly though the NWAnews is not thrilled that they won’t get to see the behind the scenes documentary that’s being made of the rehearsals. It will screen here on April 20th on the satellite television channel Turner Classic Movies (Yeah, I never heard of them either…….) and again later in the year with added footage from the opening night.
Hmm, last musical that struck a deal like that was Lord of the Rings with National Geographic last year. I’m only saying 
GWTW opens on April 22 at the New London Theatre. We wait with baited breath. Personally I’m not holding out much hope for them recreating the burning of Atlanta. Can’t help being a little concerned about how they’ll handle the total lack of political correctness of the original. Could be fun
My Goodness! What a pity I didn’t read this article before I just wasted three hours & forty minutes watching ‘Gones with the wind’ (the most boring show I have ever had the misfortune to see on the Wesr End Stage.) I have just returned from seeing a preview performance at the Duchess Theatre & simply couldn’t wait for it to end.
Unfortunately, as much as I wanted to leave.there were too many people in the row that I would have disturbed.
Simply dreadful adaptation by Trever Nunn of Margaret Martin’s lyrics & music. ( Music? is that what they call it?.
very good effort from the principal performers with such poor songs with very little melody whatever.
The applause from a practically ‘full house’ was barely audible at times & many patrons failed to reappear after the first Interval (90 Minutes.
If this show runs 90 days I’ll eat my hat.( It’s made from Candy anyway!) I had especially booked this musical production for my Mothers 84th Birthday & havin seen “Buddy” the night before she couldn’t comprehend how two west end musicals could be so wildly different.
I simply can’t wait to see what the London Theatre critics have to say after it opens officially on 22nd April.
Londoners BEWARE
Oh dear
I was hoping that the closure on the 15th might have brought about some serious trimming and re-thinking. Sorry you and your Mum had such a grim time. At least Buddy was good 