'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.
I am not sure what was worse news for Broadway today…Gone with the Wind being made into musical or Fanstasia doing the Color Purple? That is a tough one.
