Nunn to direct Gone With the Wind in West End
Trevor Nunn is to direct a new musical theatre adaptation of Gone with the Wind, opening in the West End next spring.
Trevor Nunn and Kim Cattrall at the Olivier Awards in February Photo: Dan Balilty
The show has music and lyrics by Margaret Martin and is based on Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
It will open at the New London Theatre in April 2008, with booking starting from September this year.
Announcing the news, Nunn said: “Having now worked on adapting two vast novels for the stage, Nicholas Nickleby and Les Miserables, I am drawn to the challenge of telling Margaret Mitchell’s epic story through words, music and the imaginative resources of the theatre.
“The major turning point of American history is conveyed through Mitchell’s extraordinary cast of characters, black and white, as they pursue their different ideas of the future, and of the past.”
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- Entry for Margaret Mitchell in Wikipedia
- Entry for Gone With The Wind in Wikipedia
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