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Encyclopedia > Scarlett (musical)

Scarlett is a musical with a score by Harold Rome. Its original Japanese book is by Kazou Kikuta and its English adaptation is by Horton Foote. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Fantasticks was the longest-running musical in history. ... Harold Jacob Rome (1908 - 1993) was a U.S. composer, lyricist, songwriter, and writer of musicals. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Horton Foote (born 1916), is an American author and playwright, most noted for his 1983 Oscar-winning screenplay Tender Mercies. ...


Based on Margaret Mitchell's bestseller Gone with the Wind, it traces the fate of vain, self-centered Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara and dashing blockade runner Rhett Butler, who share a passionately turbulent relationship, from the days prior to the American Civil War through the war itself and the period of Reconstruction that follows it. For the Canadian politician see Margaret Mitchell (politician) Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was the American author who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937 for her immensely successful novel, Gone with the Wind, that was published in 1936. ... Gone with the Wind, an American novel by Margaret Mitchell, was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. ... A southern belle was an archetype for a young woman of the American Souths antebellum upper class. ... Scarlett OHara (full name Katie Scarlett OHara Hamilton Kennedy Butler) is the protagonist in Margaret Mitchells 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind, and in the later film of the same name. ... A blockade is any effort to prevent supplies, troops, information or aid from reaching an opposing force. ... Rhett Butler is the handsome, dashing fictional hero of Gone with The Wind written by American author, Margaret Mitchell. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... // Reconstruction was the process in US history, 1863–1877, that resolved the issues of the American Civil War when both the Confederacy and its system of slavery were destroyed. ...


The original Tokyo production ran four hours, and the show underwent severe trimming when it was translated into English. Ninety minutes shorter, and rechristened Gone with the Wind, the West End version, produced by Harold Fielding and directed by Joe Layton, opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1972, with a cast headed by June Ritchie, Harve Presnell, Patricia Michael, and Robert Swann. The majority of reviews praised Ritchie's Scarlett and were duly impressed by Layton's staging, but criticized Foote's treatment, which relied heavily on the audience's prior knowledge of the characters and plot and as a result was sketchy in its presentation of both. Still, Fielding was encouraged enough to schedule a Broadway opening for April 7, 1974. Tokyo , literally Eastern capital)   is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, the home of the Japanese Imperial Family, and the de facto[1] capital of Japan. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... Joe Layton (May 3, 1931 - May 5, 1994) was a Tony Award-winning American director and choreographer known primarily for his work on Broadway. ... The present-day Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, sketched when it was new, in 1813. ... Harve Presnell (born September 14, 1933, Modesto, California) is an American actor. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...


In August 1973, the production was mounted at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles by the city's Civic Light Opera Association, with Lesley Ann Warren and Pernell Roberts in the leads. The reviews were so brutal Fielding immediately cancelled his plan to continue to New York City. In 1976, Lucia Victor staged a production in Dallas that travelled to three other cities, but that was the last time the musical was produced. The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation). ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Lesley Ann Warren Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946), is an American actress. ... Pernell Roberts (born 18 May 1928 in Waycross, Georgia, USA) is an American actor. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Dallas redirects here. ...


Song list

Act I

  • Overture/He Loves Me
  • We Belong to You
  • Scarlett
  • We Belong to You (Reprise)
  • Two of a Kind
  • Two of a Kind (Reprise)/Blissful Christmas/My Soldier/Blissful Christmas (Reprise)
  • Goodbye My Honey
  • Lonely Stranger
  • A Time for Love
  • What Is Love?
  • Which Way is Home?

Act II

  • Entracte/Bonnie Blue Flag
  • O'Hara
  • The Newlyweds Song
  • Strange and Wonderful
  • Blueberry Eyes
  • Little Wonder
  • Bonnie Gone
  • Finale

Reference

Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum, published by St. Martin's Press, October 1991 Ken Mandelbaum is an American columnist, critic, and author whose primary field of expertise is theatre. ... Headquartered in the legendary Flatiron Building in New York City, St. ...



 

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