Darius Danesh Factfile
News
Interviews
Reviews
Photos
Discography
Lyrics
Library
Fun Stuff
Gone With the Wind
Awards
Flyers
Darius'Note
Simon Cowell on Darius
Celebs on Darius
Links
Gone With the Wind
Dates
4 April - 27 September - New London Theatre, Drury Lane, LondonPromotional Video
Transcript of the Promotional Video
Trevor Nunn - Director
The search went on both in England and America, and eventually late one evening, somebody walked into the audition room who I had never seen before in the whole of my life, and he was 6 foot 4, and he had black hair, and very dark brown eyes and a very mischievous expression, and I was completely bowled over by the appearance of this young gentleman. Then he started to sing, sensational, sensationally powerful voice.
Gareth Valentine - Musical Supervisor/Arranger
He sings like a dream, he came into the auditions, opened his mouth and sang, and on each consequent audition got better and better. He was just so malleable that in leaps and bounds by the final audition there was no question that this was to be our Rhett Butler.
Aldo Scrofani - Producer/Executive Producer
If you were going to be Rhett Butler, there was a sense of Rhett, Rhett is about the future, Rhett was what was going to be America, can an actor who isn't an American embrace that? Well we found a great actor.
Colin Ingram - Producer/General Manager
We searched high and low for our Rhett Butler and I think probably many of the viewers were surprised when Trevor Nunn cast Darius Danesh but it was a very very simple decision. I think that Darius came into the auditions, he looked fantastic, he's 6 foot 3, it's important that he was tall, taller than the rest of the cast, that was his description in the book. He has to be slightly Italian, slightly different from the rest of the cast and Darius is half Iranian and half Scottish, and he has that darkness about him, and he had to sing and act brilliantly, well I think we all know that Darius is a great singer, he's a great singer live, and he is a brilliant actor.