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#1

Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/4/07 at 10:59pm

Casting for the London Production of Gone With the Wind has spread to America.
Breakdowns for the Roles of Mammy and Rhett have been sent to New York Talent Agents for Submissions. Interesting that they are looking for Americans for those two roles in particular. No other roles were mentioned in the breakdowns.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
#3

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/4/07 at 11:30pm

Ooooh quite exciting.

Too bad they've got themselves a Scarlett - a while back someone suggested Havilland Stillwell for the role, and now I can't get that out of my head. I think she'd be fantastic.

As for Mammy... hmmm...

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#5

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/4/07 at 11:48pm

Am I the only one who thinks this musical will be a fiasco?

There have been several attempts to musicalize Gone With The Wind (Harold Rome's version and a recent French language version come to mind) and all have flopped.
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#8

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 4:01am

No. I agree as well. I love GWTW, but honestly.... need we leave no classic book alone? So sick of books/films being turned into musicals. It was fun while it lasted, but honestly. Let's move on.
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#9

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:33am

Forget casting for the moment and concentrate solely on the writing and rewriting.

There are some shows you can smell from the get-go.

Prove us wrong.
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#11

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:54am

I also would have voted for Haviland Stillwell over Jill Paice, but alas, Jill Paice has it. Haviland seems pretty busy with other projects as well (ones with less disaster potential perhaps?...Dangerous Beauty, VOTE! the Musical)
I'd still love to see her in the GWTW musical, though. Assuming it's good. As Suellen?? Haviland would rock that!
#13

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 10:41am

Love me some Lillias, alot, but there was no scatting during the civil war.
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#14

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 11:04am

I'm a bit skeptical, the film alone is 4+ hours and I can't think of much they could cut without drastically changing the story. Unless they bank on the fact that everyone knows the story already.
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#15

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 12:40pm

I think there's gonna be some huge montages to cover the story in time allotted. Remember Les Mis was a 700 page book and they got it to about 3:17 originally. I don't think the time is the biggest problem-doing this show right and satisfying a public that is intimately familiar with the story and the characters is the Waterloo of this production.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
#16

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 1:18pm

GONE WITH THE WIND has actually had one ongoing successful theatrical incarnation as a musical - in Japan.

Harold Rome was brought in to create a musical version of the story for Japanese audiences after a non-musical, six hour version of the story was an enormous theatrical hit in the last 60s. Harold Rome's musical version was about 3.5 hours and was also a hit in Tokyo. A slightly trimmed down version of the musical was a moderate success in London and a quick flop in the U.S., where a proposed pre-Broadway national tour never made it out of Los Angeles (its first stop).

Whatever this new musical adaption is, I think its safe to say it will be a much more faithful and coherent piece of musical theatre writing than the recent French production, which was essentially a Euro-trash-pop-music-song cycle adapted from the story.

#17

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 6:34pm

I think Capathia Jenkins would be a good choice too.
There are a million people I could think of for Rhett.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
#19

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 8:58pm

There are no official casting names yet. I work in a casting agency in London and its still early days.
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#20

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:00pm

Jill paice has been the name we have all been hearing for months now. Whether or not she is truly attached to the project hasn't been announced, but I think it's safe to assume she will be playing Scarlett.
Other than that, did you enjoy the play Mrs Lincoln?
#21

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:09pm

That would be so exciting. Any other names being tossed around? I had heard Hugh Jackman was attached to play Rhett at some point but I'm assuming that, that is gone out the window.
#22

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 9:17pm

As much as I love Jill, she just does not stike me as a Scarlett. Melanie maybe. I'm still hoping for Haviland Stillwell, but it doesn't look very good... Anyway, Neverandy, who do you see as Rhett?
#24

re: Gone with the wind Musical casting

Posted: 12/5/07 at 10:17pm

Brent Barrett would be AMAZING.
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