Gone with the wind Musical casting — Page 2

Title role in phantom vegas
Frank Butler in AGYG
Billy Flynn in Chicago
Felix in Grand hotel

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"Les Mis was a 700 page book"

More like 1400.

THanks for the fact checking. Never read it, but I always see actors reading it at chorus calls and it looks monstrous.

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Not Barbour. He's a good looking guy, but he's not Rhett Butler.

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Gone With The Wind already had a less than successful musical outing here in the UK in the 70s which ran at Drury Lane theatre for around a year and lost all its initial investment

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Why do people today want to be told stories they already know by heart, backwards and forwards?

I've never seen the appeal in that.

Is it our VHS/DVD "on demand" generation that watches the same movie or TV show hundreds of times in a row, or whenever they feel like it?

I think that has something to do with it.

But the "commercial theatre community" has been inundated with shows that EVERYBODY knows already. They can quote the dialog, tell you who dies, whodunit, who falls in love, or who wins the war before the overture even starts.

It's baffling to me.

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best12bars they have been turning films, books etc in to musicals since the 40s/50s

why does everyone think this is a new thing

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