Hugh Jackman may play Rhett Butler in 'Gone With the Wind' Broadway musical

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253818,00.html#1

'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.

Hugh Jackman can do musicals...very good in "Oklahoma!"

Hell, I'd go see it. :-)

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i say Hell Ya!

He's fabulous... as his huge talent resonated all the way back to the nosebleeds, where I was swooning :D

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*tsk* Fox News, LynneSin? *tsk* *tsk*

:D

:wtf:

Yes, I'm one of the handful who's never seen "Gone with the Wind".

I know purists are going to howl over this.

But..well, if they can make a musical based on "The Apartment", then they can make one of this.

I prefer to think of that music in terms of the movie. The thought of Scarlett and Rhett bursting into song makes me :rofl:

As a young teen, I would cry to that sound track.

I was 12 when the film was re-released on the 100th anniversary of the war starting (1961).

It'd be difficult to top that sound track.

;)

I'd be tempted to see it.

it sounds like an odd musical.. But I thought Titanic would be tacky until I saw it and loved it...

who knows..

hmmm.. How can they work Nathan Lane into it... Oh and Queen Latefa for Mammy