I just hope this doesn't persuade the train strike to go ahead.

I'm not sure that Darius will sing many songs. I remember reading an interview with Jill where she said Scarlett's part was more speaking.

 

We do know they duet at least once and that at one point Margaret Martin had written a lullaby for Rhett to sing.

 

Other than that we have allegedly Mammy singing "Children Need To Be Loved", Melanie singing "These Terrible Times (?)" and now " We love America" which I personally think would be sung by the ensemble of Scallywags and Yankee carpetbaggers during the occupation and/or reconstruction.

 

I think it's heartening that those who've heard the songs in their demo state think they're really good.

 

That should be "Every Child Wants To Be Wanted" and there's apparently another song sung by the young guys, "Come Join The Troops"

 

 

:( I thought the threat of train strikes was over and that's why I booked my return ticket to London by train.

Darius Danesh a damned fine Hero LINK

 

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b276/ssoozz/DariusDanesh/RhettButler.jpg

 

:wub:

 

 

 

thanks Sooz - he is so handsome -

Our first real publicity pic. That's great Sooz

 

BT - I'm just being negative about the train strikes.

I want to put the pic in the gallery - but can't think of a title

I quite like the Daily Mail's, pip.

 

 

Surely Scarlett should be fighting him in that scene, not gazing adorably into his eyes?

 

thanks, didnt think of that! perfect

 

hope noone minds the banner change..I could resist as he looks so good!

if anyone does a better one and I'll put that up, I did this in a rush, so eager to display that picture of him!!

It was lovely to open the Mail and see that.

Pip couldyou please add the pic to the GWTW picture thread.

 

Cantilever extension which comes off the wall at the circle? Can anyone spot where that could be, on the model?

looking, but not seeing anything, this is getting intriguing

And a named song for Rhett

 

 

"big, flamboyant, heroic Rhett song called I'm Your Man".

 

 

the proposal scene?

 

I can't wait - as long as its not the George Michael one...LOL

"He's a delight."

 

We could have told you that, Sir Trevor.

I could only see things until the start of the seating. I'll have another look. Bramley is probably right in her worry about sightlines then.

Unless it comes off the front at the side (terrible description, I know), overhanging the stage.

 

Someone started a rumour about Darius being replaced? Never heard the slightest whisper of that on any theatre or entertainment site .Couldn't have got very far.

Possibly jealousy fron others who auditioned for the Rhett role.

I've always thought the walkway went right around the front of the Circle.....this must be the cantilevered

section. Hope they put up a safety rail on the outer edge!

On the photo of the theatre model, the walkway has two rows of seats behind it, so that part is at the end of the Dress Circle

as the centre section has several rows of seats.

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I think the walkway is too long to be cantilevered from the wall, without intervening supporting struts of some kind. I thought it would be firmly attached to the underside of the circle.

 

It sounds to me more like a shorter platform which can be raised and lowered when needed for a scene.

Surely it would be cantilevered from the Dress Circle balcony.

From 'What's on Stage'

 

Show Pic: Darius & Jill as GWTW Rhett & Scarlett

Date: 4th April 2008

 

In their first picture as Gone with the Wind’s Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara, released today, Darius Danesh and Jill Paice strike the pose from the famous poster of the 1939 film of the story starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, in which Atlanta burns in the background.

 

Trevor Nunn’s musical adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel starts previews at the West End’s New London theatre tomorrow night (5 April 2008) ahead of its world premiere on 22 April 2008. One preview, originally scheduled for tonight, has been cancelled after Natasha Yvette Williams, the actress who plays Scarlett’s maid Mammy, injured her ankle.

 

Set in Georgia in the 1860s, Gone with the Wind follows Scarlett’s journey from a life of luxury on her father’s plantation through the Civil War and the hardships it heaps on her and her family to the rocky post-war peace, with her love for Ashley Wilkes and the renegade Rhett Butler adding fuel to the fire.

 

 

 

 

Danesh & Paice (above) strike the same pose from the 1939 film poster (below).

 

 

 

In development for more than three years, Gone with the Wind has music and lyrics by Margaret Martin. The premiere production is directed by Nunn and designed by John Napier, who worked with Nunn on blockbuster page-to-stage adaptations of Les Miserables and Cats, the latter finishing its 21-year run at the New London in May 2002. It’s produced by Aldo Scrofani and Colin Ingram.

 

 

One of the best-selling novels of the 20th century (the only book that's sold more, apparently is The Bible), Gone with the Wind was made into one of Hollywood’s highest-grossing films, a winner of ten Oscars. It starred Leigh and Gable, whose final line – “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” – has gone down in cinematic history.

 

In addition to Paice, Danesh and Williams (See News, 21 Dec 2007), the cast of the new stage version also features Edward Baker-Duly (as Ashley Wilkes), Madeleine Worrall (Melanie) and Jina Burrows (Prissy). Others in the company include Emily Bryant, Gareth Chart, Laura Checkley, Julian Forsyth, Kirsty Hoiles, Chris Jarman, Tober Reilly, David Roberts, Tom Sellwood, Ray Shell, Savannah Stevenson, Gemma Sutton, Sue Jane Tanner, Susan Tracy and Alan Winner.

 

 

- by Terri Paddock