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Moonlight and Magnolias

"Moonlight and Magnolias," which the Chicago Sun Times called a " hyperventilating slapstick comedy, an impassioned love song and a blazing critique of Hollywood, tells the story of producer David O. Selznick shutting down production of his new epic "Gone with the Wind", a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchells' novel. The screenplay, sadly, just doesn't work. So the all-powerful movie mogul, while fending off the film's stars, gossip columnists and his own father-in-law sends a car for screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of "The Wizard of Oz. Summoning both to his office, he locks the door, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three labor over five days to fashion a screenplay that will become a blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time. Seeing Fleming and Selznick "act out" the novel, playing all the parts from Rhett Butler to Scarlet O'Hara is rip-roaringly funny. The cast includes Nathan Stith, who last season directed Oldcastle's production of 39 Steps" and Richard Howe, Oldcastle's Associate Artistic Director.