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 creative team of the show, starring Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada, have traded the novel’s soul for flashy visuals — and it almost even works.
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 creators of Paradise Square team up once again for a new musical adaptation of everyone’s favorite public domain novel.
Actors Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada star in the new musical "The Great Gatsby" on Broadway.