TTC Presents:

Moonlight & Magnolias

By Ron Hutchinson 

Directed by Helen Thorpe

The Hilarious (Almost) “True” story of the making of Gone with the Wind…It’s bananas!

BREAKING NEWS!!!

It’s 1939, Hollywood is abuzz, legendary mogul producer David O. Selznick has just shut down production on the most eagerly anticipated movie in history “Gone with the Wind,” by scrapping the umpteenth version of the script, and sacking the latest director! With his reputation on-the-line, and the expense clock-a-ticking, Selznick is determined to produce a rewrite in just five days. How? By kidnapping the formidable director Victor Flemming off the set of The Wizard of Oz, (he had just squabbled with the Munchkins and came to blows with star Judy Garland), and engaging the brilliant, but reluctant script-doctor Ben Hecht, who was “possibly the only person in America who has not read the book?!” to urgently sort the film and script out. Summoning both men to his office, Selznick locks the doors, shuts the shades, and with only a diet of bananas, popcorn and peanuts the three men work night and day, with Flemming and Selznick hilariously re-enacting the whole story and every character in it, to a much-baffled Hecht. So, creating out of the madcap chaos, what will become the magical blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time, whilst fending off the film’s many stars, the press, the author, gossip columnists and Selznick’s father-in-law MGM’s Louis B Meyer!  Phew!

Loosely based on fact, Moonlight & Magnolias is a farcical homage to the making of this ionic film and the late 1930’s Hollywood film-making system, warts n all...It’s pure comedic genius!

DON’T MISS THIS RIOTOUS SCREWBALL FARCE! 

TRINITY THEATRE, TUNBRIDGE WELLS

Box Office: www.trinitytheatre.net

This amateur production of Moonlight & magnolias is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. On behalf of Samuel French

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