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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3711
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 - 12:58 pm: | 
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Negroes in New York need to burn down the theater if this monstrosity is tried!!!!
Hugh Jackman Eyed for 'Gone With the Wind' Broadway Role
Thursday , February 22, 2007
By Roger Friedman
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'Gone With the Wind' Remake; 'Dreamgirls' Lawsuit Avoided; Pre-Oscar Partying; Hollywood Swinging
'Gone With the Wind' Musical Coming
Get ready: A musical based on Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind” is being prepared for Broadway.
I’m told that a group of producers have secured the rights from the Mitchell estate and are proceeding toward a 2008 production. The big desired star to play Rhett Butler: Hugh Jackman.
I’m also told that producers are interested in Jill Pace, an American actress who co-starred in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Woman in White,” to play Scarlett O’Hara. Pace, a popular up-and-comer, is said to resemble Vivien Leigh. The show would have its birth in London’s West End.
As it’s planned now, this version of “Gone with the Wind” will adhere to the novel more than the well-known film, still considered the all-time box office champ based on adjusted figures from 1939.
That means that this “GWTW” will be a little darker than remembered, with the story told through the eyes of the slaves at Tara.
“If you remember, Scarlett is really left with the slaves, and they become her family,” a production insider says. “That will be more of the emphasis of the story, with Rhett more of a darker, more complicated character.”
“Gone with the Wind” has somehow avoided being turned into a musical all these many years. There have been parodies — think Carol Burnett — and recently a play about the casting of the movie, but until now the Mitchell estate has never allowed this prized possession to be set to music.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7456
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 - 08:34 pm: |
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GWTW would lend itself very well to making a musical. This is a great love story set against the civil war era. Such a production would create work for black actors on Broadway in roles that can be modified into "political correctness". The "mammy" character in this story was a very powerful and dominating figure, which is why Hattie McDaniels won an Oscar for her performance in the movie GWTW. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 3723
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 10:41 am: |
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Four stars from Aunt Jemima of Mayberry! |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7461
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 12:54 pm: |
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Thank you, Uncle Remus of St Looony. As I recall, chrishayden, you once said you never saw this movie, so once again you don't what you're talking about. |
Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 656
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 25, 2007 - 03:33 pm: |
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Chris..I miss your point. Why is this monsteress..?
LiLi |
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