Gone With The Wind: The Musical (yet again)
Now in London, a musical Rhett and Scarlett
Darius Danesh and Jill Paice
(Bloomberg News)
The last time was a generation ago in a pre-Broadway tour that played Miami Beach's Jackie Gleason Theater (now the Fillmore). That show fizzled, appropriately enough, in Atlanta not long after. Among the ignominies, a flaming tree at the burning of Atlanta scene fell over -- and then bounced back up like new.
The latest attempt is helmed by British wunder-director Trevor Nunn and is just opening in London (considered more forgiving than Broadway of late). The early reviews range from negative to tepid. It appears the Selznick film remains inviolate. The New York Times surveys the carnage of the London critics.
JACK ZINK, the Sun-Sentinel theater, music & cultural affairs writer, has spent 38 years on the Gold Coast...