I must've skipped over that bit. I'll re read it.

He tells them not to go to the office for the lists as they've been sent to the papers(?) He then goes and gets a pile and hands them out, giving one to Melanie among others.

I read that the banjo is much in evidence and whilst it may be typical of the period I am not a fan so would like them to change the orchestration in that respect. I wouldnt mind if they used the main theme Taras theme from the movie as part of the show, it is such an uplifting theme, not a song but a background theme,.

I think there'd be copyright issues which even if resolved would make the production costs rocket.

 

Tara's Theme is magnificent, lush and sweeping, because it's played by a full orchestra - a theatre band could never do it justice and the audience might be disappointed anyway.

 

Am I right in thiking that one thing missing from Gwtw is the comic relief eg Les mis hasthe Thenardiers.In the film of GWTW Mammy, prissy and the everfainting Miss Pitty Pat provide it.

They have cut some of the funny bits. Maybe they'll be back.

I'd say that's a mistake. I hope they do restore it. Do they keep in the bit about Mammy's petticoat? When she puts that on she's accepted Rhett and he goes from being Captain Butler to Mister Rhett.

 

I like that tiny scene in the film where Rhett says to Mammy, You don't like me, do you, Mammy and before she can say anything "No,no,you really don't" and laughs. ( I'm paraphrasing from memory)

 

 

 

Yes they do. I found the proposal really funny as well.

The proposal in the film is donevery tongue in cheek, like the style Darius used a watered down version of for his trial summation in Chicago.

I've not seen the film version. This one made me laugh. He was trying so hard.

sounds good.

A lot of it was good.

I'll be interested to see what it's like from the worst seats in the house. I was pleasently surprised by the £17:50 ones.

 

Where are the seats @ 7.50. They'd be 17.50 after previews. I could afford to do extra trips if they gave a decent view of Darius. After the first show or 2, I usually concentrate on him to see how he's progressing.

 

They aren't advertised - and they aren't on the seating charts. They are right on the end of row A in the circle.

I don't know if I'd be able to see from there because I'm not as tall as you.

I'm short when I sit down - all leg. I thought it was worth the chance. It is an extra one. I know there's part of the stage I wont see. We'll also have people standing in front of us for a short time - it's one of the places in the circle that actors speak from. We also have the fence. I'll report back when I've seen it. It's somewhere I've not been and, it could be fine. I'm not expecting too much but, I will see how things have developed.

I'm not keen on heights either. The things I do to just go and see Darius.

I think we've all done strange things and gone strange places for exactly the same reason and apparently we'renot the only ones.

 

I would have thought Mariah Carey would never have gone to any entertainment venue with the common people or rather the tabloid's Mariah The Diva. I think she plays up to it just to have fun with the media when she wants.

 

Another satisfied American customer.

 

 

 

The Americans do seem to like it. Mind you, I'm not American.

Not all americans. - Nunn's Wind Blows

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He seems to forget hes watching a preview.

From the Stage - Fixing a musical on the run…. but some critical attitudes are unfixable

By Mark Shenton on April 15, 2008 9:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The news that tonight’s preview of Gone with the Wind has been cancelled — just a week before the official first night — to apparently provide more time for technical rehearsals onstage suggests there are serious problems to be addressed, and that radical steps need to be taken. That follows the earlier cancellation of the first scheduled preview two Fridays ago; and when performances began the next day, of course, the first preview ran for over four hours (as I know from personal experience). So we know the show needs serious pruning, or audiences won’t be able to get their trains; but can this particular train change tracks now?

 

It always seemed an ambitious idea to condense the massive novel Gone with the Wind for the musical stage; but never say anything is impossible. Trevor Nunn famously successfully helmed the transfer of Les Miserables into London’s longest-ever running musical (but that was a novel of roughly 500 pages, against Gone with the Wind’s 1000-plus). And Nicholas Nickleby, too, became a hit stage show under his watch - but then that one stretched to a two-part, seven hour performance.

 

What does, however, seem puzzling is how little time the producers gave themselves to run their project in.

 

Musicals typically only find their feet and rhythm once in front of an audience, and to allow a preview period of just over two weeks to do so here seems naive, to say the least. On Broadway, they typically allow at least a month of previews.