Does anyone else have serious doubts about the new
Does anyone else have serious doubts about the new
#1Does anyone else have serious doubts about the new
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:09pm
If it weren't for the fact that Trevor Nunn is attached to it, I would totally write it off.
I mean, the credits read that it has book, music and lyrics by someone I have never heard of before and that the book and lyrics have been "adapted" by Trevor Nunn.
Also, it is a huge freakin' novel and I don't see Trevor Nunn not falling into the same trap that Joe Layton, Horton Foote and Harold Rome fell into. That being that you need to know the movie to know what is happening onstage.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
#2re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:12pmWhen is it slated to premiere?
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#2re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:19pm
All you need to know is that they have cast a really bad reality show star who made an arse of himself as the lead role (here in the UK he became a laughing stock on Pop Idol performing a Britney song)
#3re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:21pmI thought Hugh Jackman was the lead...
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#4re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:21pm
Wait....he performed a Britney song, and he's cast as RHETT BUTLER? Jesus H. Christ on a cracker!
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#5re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:25pmJill Paice is Scarlet! That's awesome enough (for me anyway). And the premiere is in London with previews I think April 2. And official opening like the 28th of Aprilish.
EganFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
#6re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:27pmWell, "Les Miserables" was a huge freaking novel and they adapted it. Of course, the debate still rages over whether or not it was a worthy adaptation.
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#7re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:31pm
And toher than CATS, Nicholas Nickelby and Les Mis (the latter two with John Caird), most of Trevor Nunn's stuff has been really strange/flop.
Starlight Express - interesting..?! & practically a flop in the U.S.
Sunset Boulevard - Flopped for the most part and I thought for the most part without the set, the direction really wouldn't have been anything.
Woman in WHite - uhhhhhh sadly an extreme flop and it was his idea to use the "video projections"!
Aspects of Love - Also, a flop on Broadway
Therefore, I'm skeptical. And also I don't even know who the Music/Lyrics/Book person is either!
Who knows..maybe I'll be surprised!?
PUPPETMAN
Understudy Joined: 12/28/07
#9re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:45pm
The SUNSET BLVD tour with Petula Clark, a different director and simpler sets was a vast improvement on the elaborate original procudtion. You were able to concentrate on the stroy and music rather than the set. Clark was a terrific Norma.So I would have to question Nunn as director for GWTW
Updated On: 2/3/08 at 06:45 PM
#10re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 6:45pmI don't know enough about the production to comment, but I will say that anything can work as a musical if done properly.
EganFan2
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
#11re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:05pmI'm still intrigued as to whether it will be a "traditional" musical, or sung through. Either way, I want to hear Rhett's eleven o'clock number "I Don't Give a Damn".
#12re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:18pm
"WATCH OUT! Here comes Miss Scarlet and she look like she fixin' ta slap herself a slave!"
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#13re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:19pmIt doesn't matter who is involved. This is a terrible idea and will most certainly fail.
#14re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:25pm
No its not Hugh Jackman its Darius Danesh
He became famous (or infamous ) for doing a Britney song (hes own version of Baby One More Time) which was so over the top that every newspaper here laughed at him.He was egotistical and very annoying.
A few years later he entered the Pop Idol type show again (he was booted out the 1st time early on) and showed more promise.
He got a record contract and released a few singles and had an album which did OK.He then fell of the map and popped up giving a very average performance in the West End production of Chicago.
He has an alright voice (nothing special) but its his personality that seems to bug a lot of people, hes very much a Z list celebrity
Here is one of his singles (i think his only big hit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCns_r4bm94
#15re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:28pmI am way more interested in MARGUERITE !
#16re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:32pm
Its quite scary how little interest there is here in this show, no one is talking about it AT ALL.
The last time a show here had such little hype around it was Desperately Seeking Susan, and that closed after a month
#17re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:33pmAny news On Priscilla ? THAT will take London by storm !!!
#18re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:34pmLast i heard was it got pushed back until February 2009 for its London opening
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#19re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:40pmThere have been several attempts to musicalize GWTW and they all have failed. IMO, just leave it as a very entertaining novel and probably the best Hollywood movie of its type that has ever been made (Operative words "of its type." I'm NOT saying it's the greatest movie ever made, so don't anyone call me on that). I know of few people, young or old, who haven't seen the movie somewhere along the line and comparisons are always inevitable and odious. LEAVE IT ALONE!!!!!!!!! It needs NO HELP from anyone. (Ditto those misguided attempts to write sequels.)
#20re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:44pm
It is one of the Greatest Movies ever made in my opinion.
I think a lot of people who go to see this will be your older generation here in London and the chances are they probably saw the flop 70s production at the Drury Lane
broadwaylover423
Swing Joined: 2/23/07
#21re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 7:59pmHave they started advertising yet? Anyway, the only things I think could possibly save this are Trevor Nunn and Jill Paice. I just really hope this won't jeopardize her career in any way. But I suppose Scarlett is an actress' dream!
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#22re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 8:17pmWhoot another Jill Paice fan!! Yes, I honestly don't see how this could damage her career...Judy Kuhn did some better stuff AFTER Chess flopped, and many actresses do as well, and not only Chess but Metropolis or whatever too, .. or even RAGS. But I'm really just not a big fan of Trevor Nunn. Nothing all-too-extravegent comes from his work, and Hal Prince is a much better director and I hope he recovers from that stroke quickly! (Sorry to tie in two threads?)
#23re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 8:29pmThere isn't really any advertising, and whilst classy the art work is very dull and not eye catching
Fan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#24re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 8:32pmRe Hugh Jackman - he's too busy filming movies. He just finished Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" and is starting "Wolverine" any day now that will film through June.
#25re: Does anyone else has serious doubts about the new 'Gone With The Wind'
Posted: 2/3/08 at 8:38pm
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