LOL Yes give it a good wrench Meg, I am sure D wouldn't mind :) well maybe a little, but we need to know :D

 

I presume that D has been been told to grow a moustache for the part. Surely they will decide on what style he has for the show wouldn't they? I doubt if D would choose such a whispy thin one unless asked to do so. What do you think?

I think they're following the books instructions - I think it could change a little - who knows.

Would the final say come from the costume designer if they're trying to be authentic?

I'd love to see the costume - and moustache. How could they make us wait so long?

its driving me mad - it can't be long till we get some promo surely!

Maybe Sir Trevor likes to keep everything secret until he pulls of the covers with a flourish and a drum roll at the first preview.

 

I wonder if it's always like that with a brand new show, rather than one that's transferring from Broadway or the provinces.

Well, in just over a weeks time, we'll know. I was complaining earlier about how slow time was going. I think it's stopped now. Just sent of my NOW competition entry. I'd love the stay in the hotel almost as much as tickets to the show.

So now we know who the first cover Rhett is - Derek Hagen, who's Tony Fontaine.

 

No harm to him but I hope I never travel to London and see him play Rhett.

 

However, if I lived in London, I'd make a point of catching him if D was on a scheduled holiday.

I'll wait and seeif I enjoy the show. I'm not as certain I will after the clips I watched.

What clips?

The ones on the GWTW site - artist blogs.

I didn't think they showed very much at all about what they were actually rehearsing apart from a brief look at Prissy doing something and Madeleine Worrall ( Melanie) obviously singing. Neither of them was on the "I'm so and so and I was - at home. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a ............." conveyor belt.

I know - it's just the very negative feelings it gave me.

In amongst that repetitively, dull recitation, there was some new information i.e that some characters we thought should be in certain scenes with Darius are going to be in the show although they aren't listed in the cast list, for example, Mrs Elsing.

the blogs were a waste of time IMO, apart form listening to Trevor Nunn

 

They did serve to let me know that I'd be pretty rotten at casting because the people I'd decided from the rehearsal pics would be certain characters are different ones entirely.

at least I have no preconception of how anyone would look, not knowing who anyone is, having said that there seemed to be your stereotypical fat mamma slave(bring on Tom cat from Tom and Jerry) and an Uncle Tom lookalike...

The only one I have a picture in my mind of is Rhett, and that is based on the fact he was an iconic romantic rogue with the heart of gold

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I find it somewhat off-putting to hear that some of the cast members have come straight from pantomime. I suppose

any work is better than none, but panto and summer pier-end shows have always seemed to be at the lower end

of acting to me. And the cast does seem on the whole to be very young.

Are the background songs from the show? If so I'm not inspired.

I envy you. I'd love to come to the story/show with a fresh eye and mind.

I find it somewhat off-putting to hear that some of the cast members have come straight from pantomime. I suppose

any work is better than none, but panto and summer pier-end shows have always seemed to be at the lower end

of acting to me. And the cast does seem on the whole to be very young.

Are the background songs from the show? If so I'm not inspired.

 

 

John Barrowman does pantomime, Sir Ian McKellen regularly did pantomime. It pretty much depends on the quality of the script and characterisation, doesn't it?

 

The songs in the background are not from the show.