Paice to play O’Hara in Nunn’s Gone With the Wind

Published Thursday 3 January 2008 at 17:10 by Alistair Smith

Trevor Nunn has cast the role of Scarlett O’Hara for his forthcoming musical version of Gone with the Wind.

Jill Paice, who was last in the West End as Laura Fairlie in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in White, also directed by Nunn, will take on the part, which was famously played by Vivienne Leigh in the 1939 film of Margaret Mitchell’s novel.

Paice will be joined by Edward Baker-Duly as Ashley Wilkes and Madeleine Worrall as his wife Melanie.

The stage version will have its first performance at the New London Theatre on April 5, with press night on April 22. Designs are by John Napier, costumes designs are by Andreane Neofitou, with lighting design by Neil Austin and sound by Paul Groothius. Musical supervisor and arranger is Gareth Valentine and movement director is David Bolger. The show has music and lyrics by Margaret Martin. Gone with the Wind is produced by Aldo Scrofani for Columbia Artists Theatricals of New York, Colin Ingram and The Nederlander Organization.