Stage Notes

Quoted: Jill’s a Tara Freak!

April 21, 2008 6:26 pm

“I happened to ask Trevor what he was getting on to next. He said, ‘Someone’s written a musical of Gone with the Wind,’ and I said, ‘What do you want to know?” [Laughs.] I’ve been such a fan since I first saw the movie when I was 10 years old. I’ve been to Margaret Mitchell’s home in Atlanta, and many of our family vacations were spent going to plantation houses. I was fascinated with the film and with the era as well and started spouting off information to Trevor. But I never expected to be in it! Fate sort of intervened.”

—American Jill Paice on getting the role of her dreams: Scarlett O’Hara in the London musical Gone with the Wind, opening tomorrow

Read more in her Q&A on Broadway.com in London

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