Gone With the Wind: The Musical opens in the West End in April under the auspices of Trevor Nunn. “Nunn, apparently something of an American Civil War anorak, is well used to translating large books from page to stage – he did it with Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables – and has said he relishes ‘the challenge of telling Margaret Mitchell’s epic story through words, music and the imaginative resources of the theatre’.”