Review: Flashy and Fake 'Great Gatsby' Caps a Weak Season
The jazz-based score ventures into funk, Disney princess ballad, and a touch of Britpop. But none of the songs stick, and the staging is busy yet unfocused.
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The jazz-based score ventures into funk, Disney princess ballad, and a touch of Britpop. But none of the songs stick, and the staging is busy yet unfocused.
The Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan-centered new musical that opened Thursday at the Broadway Theatre lays a big egg.
Forget East Egg and West Egg. The creators of the new musical “The Great Gatsby,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, have laid an egg. This song-and-dance version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s enduring 1925 novel about, among other things, American excess in the aftermath of World War I, is excessive all right.
The new Broadway adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby ’ — now that the novel is in the public domain — is a vapid musical-shaped musical.
Read our review of *The Great Gatsby* on Broadway, a new musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada. Read all our theatre reviews at NewYorkTheatreGuide.com.