You may recognize “Gone With the Wind,” but Sturgeon Bay’s Third Avenue Playworks is banking on you not knowing the rest of the story. Actors performing “Moonlight and Magnolias” begin rehearsals Wednesday for the play that gives audiences a behind-the-scenes look at the writing and frantic rewriting of the Academy Award-winning movie.

The play, written by Ron Hutchinson, premiered at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in 2004, taking audiences back to the late 1930s, when producer David O. Selznick, director Victor Fleming and screenwriter Ben Hecht desperately tried to take the film from failure to fantastic over the course of five days. Artistic Director Jacob Janssen believes audiences will enjoy the account of one of Hollywood’s great stories about a beloved film.

Even though rehearsals begin Wednesday, audiences will have to wait until June 3 to see it on the Third Avenue Playworks stage. Rudy Galvan, Paige Klopfenstein, John Taylor Phillips and Nick Vidal play the lead roles. You can listen to our interview with Janssen about the show by clicking this link.