Posted June 3, 200817 yr hope we get some more info to put in here.. Edited June 3, 200817 yr by prettyinpink
June 3, 200817 yr Daily express today centre page spread heading - Top of the flops. Central picture of D nd jill used for all the advertising pictures. Quote calamitous an d a waste of millions as the ridiculed Gone with the wind is forced to close, what really turns a sure-fire hit into a disaster?Picture caoption - masters of disaster - Darius Danesh has gone with the wind. This article is also about other disaster i.e th millenium dome etc etHave any of you noticed that Trevor nunns name is not being used for the result of this anywhere, it is D who is carrying the can yet surely trevor nunn is responsible for this considering he has been three year developing it. It is noticeable that he isnt mentioned nor Jill, they are having a field day again.
June 3, 200817 yr The show is good. Just because the papers are doing this, doesn't mean that it isn't - you've seen it. This is what we, and Darius, expects to receive from the UK press. It's typical bullying behavious. They can't compete with him so they have to use whatever methods the can to try and bring him down. Just as well he's spring loaded.
June 4, 200817 yr Daily express today centre page spread heading - Top of the flops. Central picture of D nd jill used for all the advertising pictures. Quote calamitous an d a waste of millions as the ridiculed Gone with the wind is forced to close, what really turns a sure-fire hit into a disaster?Picture caoption - masters of disaster - Darius Danesh has gone with the wind. This article is also about other disaster i.e th millenium dome etc etHave any of you noticed that Trevor nunns name is not being used for the result of this anywhere, it is D who is carrying the can yet surely trevor nunn is responsible for this considering he has been three year developing it. It is noticeable that he isnt mentioned nor Jill, they are having a field day again. The media's habit of never crediting Darius when he's doing well and being extraordinarily vicious and unkind when things go wrong which are in no way his fault, is so petty. Are they that stupid that they can't see the pattern? - they knock him down- he bounces back a bigger star than ever. They can say what they want, but they can't reverse what happened during the short months GWTW was in the West End. Quite simply Darius Danesh moved up another rung - he went from being a " rising star of musical theatre" to an officially acclaimed star of the West End. The real movers and shakers in the thespian world use their own judgement. After Guys and Dolls Darius had great reviews but they weren't from nationals. Now he has a score or so of extremely positive notices for a role known world wide and they're from newspapers whose names are recognised abroad. He's one of those very rare talents - a talented actor who is also a versatile singer with a wide and powerful range. And the evidence this far seems to indicate he can learn complicated choreographic routines. Choosing how to showcase those talents, will be the trickiest decision for Darius and that includes what kind of songs to put on the 3rd album.
June 4, 200817 yr With thanks to rachel at DM Gone With the Wind has its audience Sophia Money-Coutts, Evening Standard 04.06.08 When it opened last month, Trevor Nunn’s musical version of Gone With the Wind was panned; the Evening Standard’s theatre critic Nicholas de Jongh advised those interested to catch the show before it blew away “on gales of ridicule”. How prophetic this proved to be, now that an announcement comes of the show’s final curtain on 14 June. Such an inglorious end seems unfair. When I went to see it last week the theatre was close to full, and the almost-four-hours running time of which the critics so complained had by then been cut by half an hour, bringing it to a more respectable three hours, 10 minutes. Fans of the 226-minute film (which used to be shown at cinemas with an interval) wouldn’t expect the show to be much shorter. I even had the stamina, as a romance-starved teenager, to watch the film twice through in one sitting, wistfully longing for my own Rhett Butler to appear in the village where I lived and kiss me. As the stage Rhett, Darius Danesh, “the one that lost Pop Idol”, brings something of Clark Gable to every line. Far from minding about his impersonation, the audience seemed to lap up his exaggerated swagger. “It’s great fun, isn’t it?” said the jolly lady sitting behind me to her companion in the interval, after the dramatic burning of Atlanta scene. There is the crux: this musical effort was surely made for devotees of that 1939 film. I’d guess that the average age of the theatre audience was nudging 80. They’d have watched Vivien Leigh ruffle her skirts and flirt her way across the screen first time round and were overjoyed to see their modern counterparts back before them — and bursting into song to boot. While not a grey-haired octogenarian, I am a bit of a Gone With the Wind groupie, so I sat happily through the show. And even though you get the feeling that Nunn went through the script at random with a pencil earmarking short, sporadic spaces for songs, there are some terrifically powerful voices belting them out. So fiddle-de-dee to triumphant theatre snobs; abridging Margaret Mitchell’s 1,000 pages into a musical was never going to please them. But for fans of the original film and anyone with a romantic fibre lurking within, you could do worse than catch this fun, frothy show before it ends next week.
June 7, 200817 yr I wouldn't call it frothy. It was one of the most emotional shows I've seen. I felt as theough I'd been through the wringer.
June 7, 200817 yr I wish it was still on. I was reading a live journal entry by a girl who came from the Us to see it. She ended up rebooking her flight and seeing it 4 times in a run. I think her opinion of it was much the same as ours. She was in the theatre on the day the fire broke out. It seems it was back stage and happened 15mins into the show. They were allowed back into the theatre to be told it couldn't be continued. That's when she rebooked her flight back to America and got ickets to the next 3 shows.
June 8, 200817 yr Author Thanks to Rachel .net OrlandoSentinel.com The curtain is falling on 2 big London musicals Audiences say farewell to hobbits and Scarlett O'Hara. Say they're 'Gone with the Wind.' Matthew J. Palm | Sentinel Staff Writer June 8, 2008 Two high-profile London musicals are shutting up shop this summer, as Lord of the Rings and Gone With the Wind bring the curtain down for the final time. Lord of the Rings has a planned July 19 closing date and has played in London more than a year. Gone With the Wind, though, is a bit of a surprise, as it opened only this spring. If you want to catch it, hope you're on your way to the U.K.: The closing date has been moved up to this Saturday. It will have had only 79 performances. I saw both shows in May. Here's the scoop: *Gone With the Wind: Two factors hurt this well-intentioned but unsatisfying show. First, at three hours, it feels longer than the actual Civil War. Second, its leading lady really isn't that likable. We all know Scarlett O'Hara is high-maintenance, to use a modern term, but that seemed amusing on a movie screen. Watching a flesh-and-blood embodiment of the willful, spoiled woman is more grating. Gone With the Wind also employs a narrator to move the story along, but again, that sucks some of the heart out of the story. There are some things to cheer about: Scottish pop singer Darius Danesh is a marvel as Rhett, with the perfect touches of aloofness, danger and charm as the Southern bad boy. The burning of Atlanta is masterfully done and the high point of the show. The slaves sing some beautiful songs, but it's as if they are in another story, and their numbers about freedom and yearning detract from the central soap opera of Scarlett and her loves. By the time that Scarlett makes a go of her beloved Tara, frankly, the audience is too numb to give a damn.
June 8, 200817 yr Author yesterday ashely was played by gareth someone, who plays one of the calvert twins I think - I cant get my hands on the program to make sure, anyway blonde one - he was a lot softer than the main Ashly, a wee bit too young - have they cut Ashleys songs? and we realised last time we saw the show Prissy was being played by the other young dark girl, not Burrows. Its still a shame they didnt play more on Rhett and Scarlet, those scenes were so full of humour and spark and GWTW is known best for that. I just cant get over just how good Darius was, I could see more of the audience this time, being at the side front row!!! and their faces said it all really, and the reaction at the end.
June 8, 200817 yr They cut Ashley's song in the last major shortening session. Scarlet's small song in Gerald O'Hara's song went too and her song 'This Time' was also cut. The secong 'Best Type of people' and the second 'She's No Lady' and the song when the new house has been built.
June 8, 200817 yr I just noticed, this review was from May. The narration has gone and Darius is even better.
June 8, 200817 yr Just as well he's spring loaded. I like that.....isn't it just. the only trouble is springs can uncoil....
June 8, 200817 yr I just noticed, this review was from May. The narration has gone and Darius is even better. What was that in?
June 8, 200817 yr "Scottish pop singer Darius Danesh is a marvel as Rhett, with the perfect touches of aloofness, danger and charm as the Southern bad boy. " I won't argue with that. I think Sir Trevor Nunn has to be credited for pushing Darius to make the most of his natural raw talent and for drawing such a great performance out of him.
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