The Great Failure that gave us The Great Gatsby

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  • Опубліковано 7 січ 2025

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  • @WaitintheWings
    @WaitintheWings  9 місяців тому +196

    Julianna might’ve been too nervous to narrate, but I want to make sure everyone knows this script is all her.
    For nearly half a year she’s been interviewing scholars, digging through archives, and walking 12 miles in Long Island just to finally tell this untold story.
    I’m so proud of her and this video and I hope you enjoy it :)

    • @Pbarz554
      @Pbarz554 9 місяців тому +11

      Congrats Julianna! All your hard work really shows in this video!

    • @katherinealvarez9216
      @katherinealvarez9216 9 місяців тому +3

      Nice!

    • @rickwilson4077
      @rickwilson4077 9 місяців тому +6

      We love you, Julianna!! I’m sure you’ll narrate your next one!

    • @bogbody2213
      @bogbody2213 9 місяців тому +5

      All her hard work really paid off! This was an excellent video. I had never heard of this play and the way all the different threads of it and Fitzgerald's life were teased out through conversation with experts was fascinating.

    • @HeatherLandon227
      @HeatherLandon227 7 місяців тому +1

      Congrats Julieanna! :)

  • @ariellakahan-harth8831
    @ariellakahan-harth8831 9 місяців тому +61

    Fun fact: the actor who first played Jerry Frost in the Atlantic City premiere of 'The Vegetable', Ernest Truex, later played the lead role in the iconic 'Twilight Zone' episode "Kick the Can".

  • @langleymneely
    @langleymneely 9 місяців тому +99

    Who over conceived this or was the impetus for this video deserves all the praise! Thank you for highlighting something a theater and English nerd like me had never heard of! I don’t know how much engagement you get on videos like this but I appreciate the hell out of it!❤👍🏾

  • @k1tkat-kate
    @k1tkat-kate 7 місяців тому +18

    "Fitzgerald found time to scrapbook!" I didn't know he got crafty 😂

  • @amandastumpff5252
    @amandastumpff5252 7 місяців тому +12

    And also, when I saw the shot of the theaters in New York City back then and saw “Follies” in bright lights, I thought to myself, “wait a second, had Stephen Sondheim already written that by this time?” And then I snapped right back into reality a second later 😂

  • @amandastumpff5252
    @amandastumpff5252 7 місяців тому +10

    This would be really, really cool to show alongside some documentaries to high schoolers when studying Fitzgerald. Just a cool little extra thing to add in to a whole unit. If I was still teaching, I would definitely show this.

  • @TheFandomExpert
    @TheFandomExpert 9 місяців тому +27

    Fantastic work! Julianna did great on the script, and the visuals/editing are awesome as always!

  • @charliehollingworth8170
    @charliehollingworth8170 9 місяців тому +10

    Would love to see you cover the flop of the lord of the rings musical and it's revival last year

  • @GreatGatsbyMusical
    @GreatGatsbyMusical 9 місяців тому +61

    Favorite doc yet, old sport. 💚

  • @dragonslayersworkshop8598
    @dragonslayersworkshop8598 9 місяців тому +9

    Your theatre documentaries are always so interesting, and while I’m not a big fan of theatre I come back these just to listen. Something I’d think would be interesting to see you cover if the play Moose Murders, which is a legendary flop among musicals and only ran for a single performance

  • @CalTheHogNosedBat
    @CalTheHogNosedBat 9 місяців тому +8

    And then Owen Wilson met them in Paris a little bit later, he was like "wow"

  • @adamgreenspan4988
    @adamgreenspan4988 9 місяців тому +1

    17:44 love the art on this program so much. It reminds me of Pippin.

  • @JackieWarner13
    @JackieWarner13 9 місяців тому +12

    Amazing work Julianna! So proud and happy for you. Great video.

  • @amandastumpff5252
    @amandastumpff5252 7 місяців тому

    I was an English major and an English teacher and a huge musical theater nerd and someone who is obsessed with Fitzgerald, not just his novels, but short stories, so thank you so much for this! How did I not really know the details about this crazy play?

  • @daaesviolin
    @daaesviolin 9 місяців тому +2

    Fantastic video! As an archivist, I appreciate your thorough citation of the materials you featured from Princeton 😊

  • @TheWolphren
    @TheWolphren 9 місяців тому +6

    Very interesting; your point about the connections between the play and the great Gatsby....

  • @katecastreviews4639
    @katecastreviews4639 9 місяців тому +1

    The passion and enthusiasm for the subject matter is incredibly potent with this one, and that to me makes for some of the best types of videos! Julianna's writing style fit your channel perfectly. Another awesome look into such an obscure ( and somewhat bizarre) area of the history of theater!

  • @CrescentCitySweaters
    @CrescentCitySweaters 9 місяців тому +6

    Wait in the Wings with the Benjamin Mezzara HSMTMTS shirt!
    I had heard of this show, but I was a Fitzgerald kid in high school. Zelda’s life is such a tragedy from start to finish and is worth looking at further

    • @amandastumpff5252
      @amandastumpff5252 7 місяців тому

      Poor Zelda. Just tragic all the way through, and it ends so sadly for her. I always felt so bad for their daughter Francis also. I wonder what happened to her in later years.

  • @TheRealPynkPanther
    @TheRealPynkPanther 9 місяців тому +2

    I LOVE THIS!!!!! MORE BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE THEATRE CREATIVES, PLEASE!

  • @rickwilson4077
    @rickwilson4077 9 місяців тому +1

    This is one of my favorite documentaries that you have done. F Scott Fitzgerald is such an interesting man.

  • @NicholousBailey
    @NicholousBailey 9 місяців тому

    Wonderful, thank you for the continued episodes!

  • @anikxa6401
    @anikxa6401 9 місяців тому

    This video is amazing! It's so incredible to see how this channel is constantly improving

  • @franklinthomas7213
    @franklinthomas7213 9 місяців тому +3

    Every time I see that picture of Zelda with her cat, I get terrible Cloverdale flashbacks. IYKYK. Zelda would know.

  • @LagrimaArdiente
    @LagrimaArdiente 9 місяців тому +1

    Congrats, Julianna! This was a very interesting video!

  • @adamgreenspan4988
    @adamgreenspan4988 9 місяців тому +2

    Petition for Fred Schneider of the B52s to play Snooks! Only he could convincingly say his famous catchphrase, “You’ve got to come across with the STATE OF IDAHO!”

  • @catchy-gh0st
    @catchy-gh0st 9 місяців тому +2

    This was awesome!!!!

  • @sifridbassoon
    @sifridbassoon 9 місяців тому +2

    I just figured out who Fitzgerald looks like. If you put aside the hair cut and look only at his face (especially when smiling), young Fitzgerald reminds me of young Jake Gyllenhalle.

  • @tremorsfan
    @tremorsfan 9 місяців тому +1

    Maybe you can do a retrospective on the works of George M Cohan.

  • @OldVintageRadio
    @OldVintageRadio 9 місяців тому

    Love this channel ❤

    • @WaitintheWings
      @WaitintheWings  9 місяців тому +1

      Love YOUR channel. Always in the background when writing.

  • @amandastumpff5252
    @amandastumpff5252 7 місяців тому

    Okay, but why was Bunny posing with that poor owl?? 🦉😳

  • @dragonetafireball
    @dragonetafireball 9 місяців тому

    I do like a play that just goes off the rails

  • @171QA
    @171QA 9 місяців тому +1

    Nice.

  • @RS-ry4lp
    @RS-ry4lp 16 днів тому

    It’s not that crazy that no one wanted to make his great gatsby play, he was famously a huge prick to basically everyone including his best friends. Read about how much a prick he was and it wouldn’t be so confusing. If he were alive today he’d probably be widely reviled as a nuisance and troll.

  • @half-faust
    @half-faust 9 місяців тому +1

    I do love some miscellaneous pleasures

  • @Donde_Lieta
    @Donde_Lieta 9 місяців тому +12

    So Dada is basically Tik Tok?

    • @williek08472
      @williek08472 9 місяців тому +7

      Dada is art, Tiktok is just obnoxious

    • @rosepetal34
      @rosepetal34 9 місяців тому

      @@williek08472 dada was sometimes obnoxious too and there is art on TikTok

    • @CinnamonGrrlErin1
      @CinnamonGrrlErin1 9 місяців тому +8

      To make a long story short, dadaism, and the avant garde movement in general, was a reaction to capitalism and the bourgeois of that era. Considering most TikTokers are trying to make money and publicity, I don't think they're that much alike.