Audiences don’t exactly need their hand held by Nick or anyone else through “Gatsby,” but given the familiarity of this territory, we do crave a distinctive point of view. Beyond exploiting this famously beguiling title, it’s never clear what this telling really wants to say.
The Great Gatsby
Opening Night: April 25, 2024
Theater: Broadway Theatre
Website: broadwaygatsby.com
Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada star in this new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved novel, The Great Gatsby. Transport yourself to the opulent world of the 1920s as one of the greatest American novels hits the greatest American stage.
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April 25, 2024
But this “Great Gatsby,” which is not terribly bothered, either, with the moral shadings of its title character’s rise and fall, is principally interested in a good time. When Nick utters the novel’s sober final line, about “boats against the current,” the words have no heft. An ensemble of dancers is upstaging him anyway, wanting to give the audience one last moment at the party.
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On the surface, it’s alluring, but it’s nothing more than a modish echo of an over-romanticized time period. Ironically, the same romantic idealism that portends Gatsby’s demise runs amok in this lustrous, but lackluster production.
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Remade as true love torn apart by circumstance, the central romance loses the edge that makes it so compelling: the allure, tragic for Gatsby, of an unattainable class ascent. But will any of that matter where sales are concerned? Maybe not. To audiences hungry for glitz this year, The Good Gatsby may be good enough.
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Under Marc Bruni’s jazz-hands-happy direction, this Gatsby feels like it belongs on a cruise or in a theme park. It would make a good fit if Epcot’s pavilions expanded to include time periods as well as countries.
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Jay Gatsby lives in West Egg. Daisy Buchanan lives in East Egg. And the new musical about them that opened Thursday at the Broadway Theatre lays a big egg.
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April 25, 2024
This is modern day American musical theatre at its finest, that feels right for the whole family. When you have an uber talented company of some of today’s favorites, it’s hard to go wrong.
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April 25, 2024
In this first Broadway version, the creatives have committed wholeheartedly to the spectacle of the story, but forgot the substance.
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Those attending Great Gatsby expecting nothing more than a glitzy, glamorous romp through the Roaring Twenties will find themselves satisfied, but others hoping to find a deeper take on the novel’s exploration of the American dream, old money versus new money, and love will find themselves feeling adrift.
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Something about the production feels too spic and span by the time it ends: Missing is a mess left behind by the Roaring Twenties excess. I felt the warmth in The Great Gatsby, but it was begging to bring on the heat.
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