I don't have Sky. If he won an award the write up would still be Darius Danesh who people remember from popstars for his version of a Britney Spears Song ......

Do you think its a good idea that none of the music is available before the show. I ask as I notice someone says they have been trying to find out some of the songs. Surely as in the case of ALW it is a bonus like a single for instance if people hear something and then want to go. there are also comments on the non-publicity and predictions are not good. I didnt realise that a musical oF gwtw was made thirty years ago with bonnie langford as the child.

They are already advertising coach trips to see the show in my local papers - no mention as to who are starring in it as yet though!! Hopefully the adverts will be elaborated in the next couple of weeks!

 

Julie

They are already advertising coach trips to see the show in my local papers - no mention as to who are starring in it as yet though!! Hopefully the adverts will be elaborated in the next couple of weeks!

 

Julie

We may hear some of the music AFTER it has been recorded. They really can't release any music until it is.

There does seem to be a good bit of anxiety in theatre circles about the nature of the music, because Margaret Martin is not a professional composer/songwriter. That fear needs to be laid to rest as soon as possible.

It does - but the music still has to be recorded first.

Maybe Darius could roll up his sleeves and give them a wee hand with the recording.

Tne negavity on a certain theatre site about the show generally apart from WOS and the stage. is a bit worrying because no news has been forthcoming.

There was a heck of a lot of negativity before the film too but Selznick just gritted his teeth, got on with it and finally stuffed all his critics.

I think after 4 years preparing, we're going to get something worth seeing and hearing. Roll on April. The reviews will be interesting.

I do hope they don't jump through hoops trying to please the politically correct brigade.

 

 

There's quite a balance in the book. I's funny, the negro slaves within the household, seem to rule it. One of the feild hands is said to be the best overseer they've ever had - then they turn around and say they're like children, while they are being treated like children by them.

 

The Yankees in the book who want their freedom come over as having no liking or respect for them. It is an intersting book to read.

I think there was a lot of ill feeling about the way Maragaret Mitchell wrote about the slaves.

 

In the film, the house slaves have as great a dignity as many English butlers. It's the freed slaves who seem to get bad press from Margaret Mitchell. In one scene Mammy is clearing Scarlett's way through a crowd of freed slaves and she calls them "trash"

 

Rightly or wrongly, this production is supposed to be true of the book. To me it would be wrong to go all PC and change the relationships entirely.

 

Hollywood baulked at showing the upstanding Southern gentlemen (not Rhett) as KKK members attacking a shanty town of freed slaves. Will Sir Trevor Nunn dare?

The people she talks about have been roused to bad manners and behavious by the yankees - to make he southerners life even harder. You get any group of young people in their circumstances and apply the pressures and you'd get similar results.

I feel really sorry for Melanie and Rhett now.

...hang on I'm only on page 10!

I'm on 920. a lot happens between 10 and 920

Interesting, its very hard not to be PC these days,

There were 'white trash' among the negro troublemakers. Their were diapproving negros among the rest of the population. Those days weren't pc. Today, hopefully, people are judged just by their qualities, in those days, it took an awful lot more to be considered worthwhile.