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Here are the songs, in order, from GWTW.

 

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Act I

Born to be Free

On Your Land

Mrs O'Hara's Prayer

Good Time Good Cheer

She's No Lady

Softly

Come Join the Troops

The Very Best People

I'm Your Man

Scarlett O'Hara Again

Can This Be All?

I'm Your Man (reprise)

Gone With The Wind

Act II

Born to be Free (reprise)

Desperate Times

Nobody Knows You

I'm Gonna Find My Own

On Your Land (reprise)

Wings of a Dove

Reconstruction Planning

Just Two!

Once Upon a Time

Every Child

Once Upon a Time (reprise)

Alone

Mrs O'Hara's Prayer (reprise)

Gone With The Wind (reprise)

 

 

When the musical opened, it contained two additional songs in Act II: "Abundantly Present" and "Eternity of Shame". These, and several reprises, were cut in May 2008.[citation needed]

 

JUST TWO

 

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Why have I descended into mindless games like these

I can live the life I choose and do just as I please

I don't give a damn how I'm perceived

But I could never have believed

I'd never stand the saddle and the rein

You would lie beside me while you dreamed of Ashley's arms

You know it's true. If I can ban his ghostly presence

Cast a spell upon your charms

This pathetic creature

Spinelessly arcane

Slithers through our lives and where he passes

Leaves a stain

Gone are all the simple pleasures that we both once knew

By God it's wrong. With all he's taken what has Ashley ever given you

Hopelessly inept at life

He covets someone else's wife

And cannot move even to prove he lives

Now we must contest with what this faithless coward has tried to do

I'll tell you how

Tonight in bed my dear

Instead of three you'll find there'll be

Just two.

 

 

 

Once Upon a Time

 

http://www.dariusworld.org.uk/images/Once%20Upon%20A%20Time.jpg

 

Once upon a time

An angel came to Georgia

To teach the people there

How they can care again.

 

Once upon a time

She brought the sun to Georgia

And broken hearted people

learned to smile again.

 

Once upon a time

Just with her laughter,

she saved my soul

and made me whole for ever after

 

Once upon a time,

Once upon a time, my Bonnie Blue.

 

 

 

ALONE

 

http://www.dariusworld.org.uk/images/Alone.jpg

 

 

( Jill )

Ask me how I feel

I feel as if my life has turned to stone

Where once my heart had wings

I feel the cage is empty now the bird has flown

From this country where the silence is profound

From this well of darkness much too deep to sound

This place that I have come to know and feel

Is called alone

 

( Darius )

Forgiveness is divine

But nothing will and nothing ever can atone

The nightmares come again

Just like a fate I have no power to postpone

I try to change but I remain the same

Rearranging all the letters of your name

But nothing can release me from this prison called

Alone

 

( Both )

I never cared before

Or wanted so to give

But now my joy's no more ( Darius sings " is gone")

Where is the will to live?

So this is what I feel

An emptiness like nothing I have known

Where peace of mind is something I must follow

But could never hope to roam

When nothing that I do relieves the pain

Or can once?erase your image from my brain

 

( Both sit down )

I'm condemned to live my life

Here in this hell that's called

Alone.

 

 

Gone With the Wind Reprise

 

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The life I used to know is gone

And gone beyond recall

But how the flames were fanned

I really do not understand at all

But what I learned from this

and learned the hardest way

Is that Tomorrow is another day

 

How can we reach the light

In darkness where we live

How can we make a future

Be a gift we want to give

Can blessings not be shared

Will that day ever come

When freedom reaches every life

Not just the lives of some

 

We should recall the past

Though it must not return

 

It forged the chains that held us down.

and so we all must learn

To make a better world

Whoever may have sinned

 

The future calls, the past is Gone,

Gone, Gone, Gone with the wind

 

 

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Perhaps Meg will know.....she saw the early shows.
That was the Ashley song that was cut. When Scarlett is told about the taxes she walks to find Ashley in the Ochard. This was a long scene and Ashley's only solo number. The cut down scene doesn't involve the wooden platform or the song. It is a song I don't miss at all.

Scarlett sang before the proposale after Frank died.

 

I'm sure Darius sang a solo in the second half right at the begining-meaning April 5th ....wish I could turn back time and take more notice

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There was just so much to watch that it was impossible to absorb everything. Scarlett's bit within 'On Your Land' was cut and I really liked that.
..............because part of Dr Martin's slant on GWTW was to take the subplot of the emancipation of the slaves and move it centre stage ?
ith a character who was a waste of space both in the book and film? People are people regardless of colour. Prissy was a selfish spoilt brat.
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I didn't like her voice when she did sing.
I did. I just didn't feel it was relevant. I thought she was a really good actor with a good voice but, the part wasn't anypone I recognised from the book.

I have to say i didnt like her voice that much, the first time we saw the other girl(who plays the other girl slave with the headscarf, I prefered her voice,

 

 

Scarlett sang before the proposale after Frank died.

 

I'm sure Darius sang a solo in the second half right at the begining-meaning April 5th ....wish I could turn back time and take more notice

 

Wasn't Nobody Knows You always a solo song?

It was. We both feel there was another one with it though - but neither of us can remember what.
We're talking about 5th April. It had changed by the 7th and a lot of things had gone. If we'd have known it was going to be cut so soon, we'd have taken notes instead of watching it.

I can't even remember if I liked it.

 

They improved I'm your man...they had him dancing like Billy Flynn with a stick the first preview.

The song was altered as well I think.

 

I have to say I don't like the lyrics in the second bit of 'I'm your man' when he was talking to Scarlett.

 

He sang them well but they were a bit....doh

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