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Pulitzer-winning playwright Martyna Majok ("Cost of Living" ) to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel for the stage

By Katrina Nattress Apr 28, 2021 Florence Welch will soon be able to add musical writer to her resumé. On Wednesday (April 28), a musical stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel  The Great Gatsby was announced, and the Florence + The Machine singer is slated to pen the lyrics and co-write the music. “This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said in a statement. “It contains some of my favorite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honor to have been of...

© Centre: Mike Marsland, left and right: Dan Wooller Now that theatres are getting the "green light", it's fitting that big blockbuster new musicals are also unveiled! Florence Welch, of Florence and the Machine fame, will be the co-composer and lyricist on a new version of The Great Gatsby, alongside Oscar and Grammy Award nominee Thomas Bartlett. Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok ( Cost of Living) will create the book, based on F Scott Fitzgerald's iconic 20th century novel, with timeline to be revealed. Rebecca Frecknall ( Summer and Smoke) will direct the piece, which has yet to reve...

Florence Welch and The Great Gatsby Rock star Florence Welch (Florence + The Machine), Thomas Bartlett, and Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok are collaborating on a musical stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, which entered the public domain earlier this year . Call Me By Your Name's "Mystery of Love"), and a book by Majok ( Cost of Living), the production will be directed by Olivier nominee Rebecca Frecknall ( Summer and Smoke). Jeanie O'Hare serves as story consultant. Martyna Majok Joseph Marzullo/WENN...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic  The Great Gatsby entered the public domain at the start of this year, and it didn’t take long before news came out about multiple planned adaptations, including a TV series and an animated movie. But the adaptations don’t stop there: a The Great Gatsby musical is also in the works, and today, word came out that Florence Welch, the rock star singer of Florence + The Machine, is writing the lyrics and co-writing the music for the new stage show. The official title of this production appears to be The Great Gatsby, A New Musical (yes, with a comm...