Pardon the pun, but we're breaking "Wind" news. Frankly, my dears, the audience just didn't give a damn. As Cinema Retro predicted, director Trevor Nunn's musical stage version of Margaret Mitchell's classic Gone With the Wind will close June 14, the victim of weak ticket sales and reviews that were devastating. We never take pleasure in the failure of any production. It affects the lives and careers of many talented people who work hard to make a show succeed. But this one was a waste of time and money that could have been spent nurturing other shows, especially given the fact that a 1970s attempt to produce the novel as a big budget musical also flopped - in London, yet! So why would anyone think such a scenario would work this time? It's like launching a mega budget sequel to Howard the Duck. The producer, Aldo Scrofani said, "Plans for a New York production are currently on hold but in the
meantime we are pursuing various options that have been presented to us
from interested parties worldwide." Various options? Scrofani must be such a master of understatement and spin that he would describe General Sherman's march through Atlanta as a social call. He has a perfect future running the campaigns of presidential candidates. - Lee Pfeiffer
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