Play on Epic Writing Session on "Gone with the Wind"

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There's a lot of buzz and name-dropping going on in the latest production of the Little Theatre of Danville. Among those names that were dropped include famed Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, authors no less than Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Actress Greta Garbo. The play is said to be a tale of a gruesome week in Hollywood, circa 1939. Hopefully, this comedy will make you laugh and forget about your worries.

The show's director Jane Reid said, “The studio was losing money left and right... All the actors (Vivian Leigh, Clark Gable and others) were on hold and standby.”

The show by playwright and son Virginia Cate and Duke Ernsberger of Charlotte, N.C. describes the burdensome work session of the week. The cast was only offered coffee, bananas and salted peanuts. “They were such big performers in Hollywood, and everyone’s ego is about the size of the stage,” Reid said. “They get very tired and delirious.”

With Steve Petrick, Donnie Haymore, Barry Haulsee, and Reid as Ms. Peabody, the show heads on the three together for a seven-day writing turmoil faced with troublesome censorship issues and a script doctor who afterall have never read Mitchell’s Southern epic.

The comedy opens on Friday time slots: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Feb. 27-28 at 2 p.m. Sunday and March 1 at the North Theatre, 629 N. Main St.Grab your tickets now for only $12 for adults and $6 for those 12 and under at the Danville Area Association for Arts & Humanities, 635 Main St., The Brown Bean, 1799 Memorial Drive, foxglove, 1011 W. Main St., Rippe’s, 559 Main St., and Sal’s Italian Grill & Pizzeria, 125 Wooding Ave., or at the door.