The Great Gatsby Musical: Creating a Broadway Spectacle
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2024
- For nearly 100 years, The Great Gatsby's been turned into everything from an opera to a comic book, but now it's undergoing it's boldest transformation yet...a musical.
This is the story of expectations and frustrations, of friendships and competitions, and why we keep coming back to the Great American Novel.
This is the story of The Great Gatsby: The Musical.
Special thanks to the entire @bwaygatsby team for their support in making this documentary possible and for giving us the most in depth look at how to create a Broadway musical and letting us film the final two days of rehearsals! Also, apologies to Carissa Gaughran for the typo on your caption!
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Huge thank you to the Great Gatsby for helping us pay the team to cover the last three months of videos while we worked on this HUGE project, for being so hands off creatively, and letting me tell the whole story I wanted to tell.
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It feels bitterly ironic that the team started out with the intention of creating “a great tragedy disguised as a great party,” only for the marketing of the show to pivot after opening to “it’s a giant crowd-pleasing spectacle.”
one of my favorite products of the Great Gatsby entering the public domain is a version on ao3 where it's just the exact book word for word except for an added paragraph where tom kisses gatsby on the mouth and then it never gets addressed for the rest of the book
What? I need to read this 😂
@@TheCanderemy i can't find the fanfic anymore but i can still find the tumblr post that talks about it 😭it was called "The Great Gatsby .. I think" by antibucci. idk if it was deleted or just orphaned tho
No comment has sent me running to the computer this fast before
do you mean nick??
@@matchatoastyno there's a screenshot of the passage on the Tumblr post I found it on, it's Tom
"she saw that The Great Gatsby wasn't just about Gatsby" is a wild realization to have at the point in the process where you're taking your show to broadway.
This feels like a musical that was created by people who wanted to be the BEST at making the source material a musical that they didn’t take the time to fully understand the source material.
Honestly, hearing that the producer was so flexible with following the direction of the creatives in the first half is refreshing compared to having watched all the other videos on this channel where the producers stuck their feet in and ruined projects
Knowing that this is now in the public domain REALLY makes me wanna see a Muppets The Great Gatsby. Thanks for putting that in my brain. Also, amazing video. I really love these long form documentaries you put out. The quality is out of this world and I always learn so much!
"And so we beat on"
One of the most poignant endings to your docs yet. You blew this out of the water Brendon, well done!
As someone that saw the show early in previews, there were some choices that left me a little perplexed. But seeing this and knowing 1) that the show was originally intended for South Korea and 2) that they intention was for the party to go on as long as possible before the drama arrived. Know THAT... I wanna go back again and see it knowing that was rhe vision.
There is so much depth and nuance to the female characters that already exists in the text, you don't need to make up new stuff.
I saw this at the Papermill Playhouse before it got transferred to Broadway and even though this musical doesn’t have the best songbook, the dancing, acting, and singing is INCREDIBLE! And also the set even before its transfer was absolutely gorgeous. Seeing it for Eva and Jeremy alone is so worth it they’re just so amazing at their craft.
I am sorry, but this adaptation missed the entire point of the book. It is a critique of the carelessness, excess, and extravagance of the time. This musical just pushes this great lavish party idea. Also, whoever thought the green light was a romantic metaphor and wrote a song about it needs to reread the book.
Hey! I would advise taking a bit more time in analyzing the lyrics of the song, especially since the Jimmy Fallon version is out or at least when the cast recording comes out. The entire point of that song is that both understand that while they love each other, they cannot have each other. They acknowledge each other as their green light, which is something they had hoped to happen but sadly moved on. You act like Daisy and Jay didn’t have an affair either in the book. Plus the actual musical does hit on carelessness and the overall pomp of that time, emphasizing in the shallowness of new money. Ive seen the musical too much to hear people who have heard a minute of a song try to analyze the entire thing
@@Jellyfish1106 I never said anything about the affair? And an affair does not equal romance. Also, you are jumping to conclusions as I have seen this musical both on Broadway and at Papermill. I would take a bit more time considering where a person is coming from before making assumptions about their knowledge of something.
Omg I was at the stage door the night you were filming!!! I was the one who asked if you were from waiting in the wings lol
The fact that THE PARTY’S GOOOING OOOOOON gave tons of publicity to the show makes me so happy
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Excited to watch this video but ngl I'm still more excited about Gatsby: An American Myth which is about to premiere in two days. The creative team behind that has some of my favorites. And hopefully that one will put in more of the queer subtext that exists throughout the book and focus on the substance not just the style of the book. The darkness is the *point* of the book, and to skip that is to skip what makes Gatsby great.
There actually has already been a Great Gatsby musical in Japan, first performed in 1991 and restaged in 2008 and 2023 by the Takarazuka Revue. It also had a co-ed (non-Takarazuka) run in 2017.
This. I'm glad that a Korean producer is involved and that a few Japanese and Korean things are on stage in London now. There's so much history of theatre all over the world that the US and UK have yet to acknowledge. You know, like Elisabeth, for one.
oh the Gatsby PR team is working overtime lmao 😂 I somehow didn't know this show existed until I saw a YT Short an hour ago, and now one of my favorite theater UA-camrs has come through with a video
It may be a coincidence but they might be flooding the scene rn with promo as the rival Gatsby musical premieres this weekend
@@WhenNerdsAttack it's going to be very interesting to see which one stands the test of time
@@Chibbykinsjust from a music stand point the Florence one is a million times more interesting and sounds like nothing on broadway. Plus with hadestown director i can’t wait to see the visuals of it. But just going off score, Gatsby at art is literally a breath of fresh air compared that sounds like the book feels. It’s ominous, industrial at times, themes of American exceptionalism and class divide. It seems like this production missed the metaphors of the book. Like the way they misunderstood the green light is wild and turning it into a romantic ballad is kinda like- didn’t you read the book in high school?
@@JL0ndon interesting that Eva approached this team and not the one running the Florence version, especially since there's a Hadestown connection. I'm curious (or maybe just nosy) as to what the story is there. She was burnt out from Htown but jumped right into this? Maybe she wanted something less demanding
@@Chibbykins good question- I wondered that too when I heard who was directing Florence Gatsby. From what I know with ppl who have worked with Rachel Chavkin, she can be extremely difficult and actors have made lots of complaints about her. I think Eva might have avoided that production because of her. And after being burnt out on hadestown didn't want another demanding show like Chavkin tends to do
i saw this show at papermill- my best friend & i grabbed the last two seats on the november 11th matinee for $25 each (student prices) and it’s truly one of my core memories and an experience i will never take for granted. my mom drove us two hours there and back and didn’t even get to see the show with us haha (i love my mom lol)
i can’t speak for the broadway show, but at papermill, the party was very clearly covering the tragedy of gatsbys life so by the time you got to the end and it all came crashing down it was tragic and shocking but not totally unexpected. it felt like answering the “how are you?” question with “fine” every time until you have a breakdown and was cathartic in a way. i will always love this show and i’m also excited to see what “gatsby” does because i think they’re both interesting and valid takes on the source material
favorite part of seeing gatsby though was getting to ask questions after the show and see the stage manager of the show come out on stage after i mentioned that i was hoping to go into stage managing, and talking to the sound op who was sitting at the back of the theater running the show and getting to learn how everything worked there. be nice to techies yall they’re so cool
I saw Great Gatsby a few weeks ago on Broadway! It was great to see such a spectacle from the lighting, sets and costumes, especially as the other Broadway shows I watched were more minimalistic, and a show like this would be hard to recreate on tour. Eva’s understudy did amazing, and all the actors were phenomenal. My issues were more with character development and pacing (as someone who isn’t familiar with the book) but I’m glad I saw it! I love that you’re partnering with Gatsby to make videos and content about it as I have been watching your channel for years!
My gripe is that Kait mentioned in a speech posted on Instagram that she didn’t like the women in the Great Gatsby. She couldn’t relate to the book because she couldn’t see herself in it. So they fundamentally change a character of Myrtle. I will stand by that yes, the show that I saw was a party. They achieved what they set out to do, but they didn’t do a great, no pun intended, adaptation of The Great Gatsby. The whole climax of the book is completely undermined in the musical and I just can’t see WHY.
do you know which interview she said that in? that’s so disappointing!! gatsby has such interesting female characters and it’s so upsetting to see both them and the whole story become so reduced
@@alternicoYes. It was a speech that she did to the cast and crew during the previews at Papermill. It’s on the official Instagram.
Did you see the show on Broadway? For me, personally, I didn’t feel that the entire show was a party, at all. Yes there was a lot of maximalism in the costumes, music, sets, and lighting. But that seemed more of a commentary and reflection of the world these folks lived in.
I was actually shocked at how much the affair takes center stage in this show’s plot. Partly because I’ve never read the book, probably, and just remember the excess vibes from the movie. But still.
Okay the instagram posts make sense now 😂
Posting this comment early that way I can leave my mark here for those to know I was here the day this masterpiece was 2 days from premier
“the great gatsby wasn’t just about gatsby it was about everyone’s perspective of him and most importantly it was a story about class” and “there’s something inherent in this material about the mystery of gatsby” … well yes that’s the entire point. ask any english major - scratch that, any high schooler in an english class - what the importance of the title itself is. “great” signifies power and status (and possibly wealth) and as gatsby is given this name it reflects different perspectives concerning him, and then you’re wondering even before reading the book “what’s so great about this guy anyways?” WHICH CREATES THE GATSBY MYSTERY. i genuinely don’t know how everyone got so far into the creative process without realizing the core elements of the TITLE alone.
I’m sorry, I really appreciate your work and I’m VERY glad that you’re getting paid well for this video, but I can’t take this video seriously as an ad paid for by the show. The lack of understanding of Gatsby as a text at the very HEART of this show has honestly had me despairing of the current state of Broadway and honestly America’s reading comprehension. Hearing discussion of how shallow the female characters are in the source material??? Daisy is one of the most complex female characters in all of classic literature. Basically every comment about the source material by the show runners had me despairing. I truly love everyone involved in the project (including you!!) so I hope EVERYONE makes a lot of money, but yeah, I might be disengaging from all Broadway puts out for a few years until we take a turn back to intelligent writing.
I’m sorry, just, how can you have such an opulent and celebratory adaptation of THE GREAT GATSBY??? My heart is breaking
And I’m so happy you reached this conclusion on your own, because it means I did my job :)
Very interesting to hear about how some of the writing decisions were made for this show. I feel like I understand the show a bit more but ultimately I think a lot of the narrative changes hurt the show more than helped but I can't say I had a bad time seeing it. I'm sure it'll have a very long life.
2:38 sooooooo death note the musical documentary when??? (seriously, you do not understand how bad i need a death note the musical documentary)
I noticed that, too. Partly because I am a Jeremy Jordan fan and he was amazing as Light Yagami in the original New York cast recordings of DN the Musical.
This was an awesome video that hooked me into diving into this production more! Thanks for all the hard work you do to chronicle shows and help those of us that don’t live near NYC to feel a part of this. Also those opening credits were bomb!
love that a bunch of tikitokers said immediately that Nick should start the show, but it took the writers months to realise...
It's because the tiktokers actually read the book 😬
The writers were probably too stuck on the idea of what they wanted for the show that it took an outsider’s opinion for them to see reality.
If only the show were as good as this documentary
I’m super excited for the cast album to come out next month. Eva Noblezada and Jeremy Jordan are 2 of (if not my all time) favorite broadway perfomers. I wish I could see the show but living in Scandinavia makes that I bit difficult
Thanks for shedding light on the background of this one. Makes me want to go see it again with the knowledge I now have about this show’s development.
I found the show to be entertaining. I liked it. But it was by no means extraordinary. Other shows have featured similar themes (especially on the critique if excess, capitalism, wanting what you can’t have, etc) and did those commentaries a lot better, in my opinion. Here Lies Love talked about those themes, and did so in a way that didn’t seem tired and done before. Which is ironic since Here Lies Love was in the Broadway theatre right before The Great Gatsby was.
I am so siked for this video. Brendon you do such a good job with the Broadway deep dives. You are one of the many people I aspire to be when I grow up.
Wow, this is honestly amazing work guys! That clip at 36:50 made me tear up, it is so unusual to see the creatives behind the scenes, so surreal to see them sitting on the audience seats chatting. If you ever get the oppertunity to make a documentry about a current show again please do you all smashed it!! I can't even begin to imagine the preperation and reshearch that went into this ahhhhhh 10/10
You did a wonderful job on this documentary!! I honestly didn't know about this musical but it was wonderful learning about its creation!
This means so much! Thanks for watching :)
The best version of Gatsby I have seen is from a professional Italian dance troupe that made it into a dance show that uses a wide range of popular songs to portray the story. There was barely any dialogue but they perfectly transported the story.
good to see broadway understand how AMAZING AND FANTASTIC this channel is.
7:57 the entire time i was waiting for you to mention a killer party oh my god i love this musical so much it’s insane
I’m so excited about this show and hoping for a great run so I can see it!
That 40 minutes flew by fast!! Well done!
No one does videos quite like you. I thoroughly enjoy everytime. 👏
So happy to hear it and happy you enjoyed!
I am so interested in this musical "interpretation." This is another informative, educational, and extremely well-crafted video documentary. The rewriting and restructuring done by the "GATSBY" creative team reminds me of the trials and tribulations that plagued "CAMELOT" (1960) and "FUNNY GIRL" (1964). An excellent video. Thank You so much.
Great documentary as always.
Definitely feels more like a long commercial for the musical as opposed to a documentary 😅
It’s literally the same structure as any of his other docs but, go off I guess?
@@ModBod16 except for the fact he said he'd no longer do docs for shows that aren't at least 5 years old
I saw the show a couple weeks ago and was surprised at how many people gasped with shock at the ending.
This documentary is incredible! Thank you for this opportunity to learn the behind-the-scenes of The Great Gatsby Musical on Broadway!
Can not wait!
Can’t wait to see a great book as a musical!!
Great video. How nice to see a video about a show where there was a major drama.
I hope it shows up in Chicago, I'd go see it.
Another fab vid. Thank you :)
After hearing the shows goal was to be a crowd pleasing spectacle, I can respect that. I think it succeeded in that area, and if that's what they were trying to do, great. If you think it misses the point of the original book, that doesn't matter, because the original book still exists and you can read it whenever you want. This is a different interpretation, and it's allowed to exist in whatever form it wants to. And for what it is, I think it's very well made.
Just saw this last week and while I disagree with the ending ( it could’ve ended for me after Nicks song), I was surprised at how much I loved it
I love your documentaries ❤
Shout out to the Paper Mill Playhouse.
Did anyone got jumped scared from Sweaty Orical's appearance.
Sweaty…Orical?!
I don’t know who that’s referring to.
Wow I had no idea how massive the social media campaigns were. I found out about this musical from the musical’s trailer on UA-cam
You should be so proud of yourself
Great job
can't wait for this! (but also regarding the caption: it hasn't been published for 100 years yet, so idk if I'm missing something but how could it have been adapted into other stuff "for over 100 years" ???)
Typed “over”, meant “nearly” 😅
@@WaitintheWings that makes total sense haha! looking forward to watching the video!!
Not my tik tok video with my reaction from the press rehearsal making it on here
It ate. Devoured.
Hey, Gatsby is my favorite book, i dont care that the musical is different, i love it so dang much!
Kinda scared for this doc tbh considering a lot of people's gripes about this specific iteration of Gatsby and the fact that it's made in partnership with them, which means it won't necessarily be entirely impartial. Might have to skip it ngl...
There’s a angry Sweaty Oracle clip in here. That’s all you need to know 😅
I’d love to se a version of this for the outsiders!
This is so insanely fantastic, and I love that you got such an inside view. Does UA-cam give awards? 😂 Because you should get an award for this one.
Gatsby has always been one of my favorite novels. I love the language of Fitzgerald (For anyone who also loves the way he writes, Winter Dreams is also an absolutely fantastic short story). I loved Gatsby when I read it my senior year in high school, and it was one of the reasons I became an English major in college. And then, my masters to become an English teacher. And then I taught the book to my high schoolers. And I would do anything to see this on Broadway. But it’s probably not going to happen. I doubt they will do a pro shot or tour, but one can hope. Just from an educator standpoint, if they do the proshot, it would be fantastic for English teachers and choir and music teachers to collaborate and show it to students. There’s a market for that, just like Hamilton, because Gatsby is still widely read in most high schools in the US.
My girlfriend went to see it and ended up walking out by the second act lol. She said spectacle wise it's great but it misses the whole point of the book. Style over substance.
anyone when watching the show still compare to 'the book' should have walked out yes. You don't deserve to watch it. Period. It's not missing the point from the book. It's their interpretation. And if you GF doesn't have the same interpretation and claim her version only is the correct one, good luck with your relationship. Tragic is coming soon.
@user-mh9sx7he8k people are allowed to dislike the show, no need for your trashy comments.
@@user-mh9sx7he8kCome on, man. Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. You liked it. Other people didn’t. That is the nature of art, and saying OP’s relationship is doomed because their GF didn’t like it is messed up, even for a UA-cam comment
the second act is what’s most like the book so her leaving halfway through it is like?? she can’t even fairly judge how they represent the book
Ok so that’s not good theatre etiquette to just leave halfway through the musical., but also how can your girlfriend judge the musical when she hasn’t watched the musical?
I had a chance to talk to Jeremy Jordan in a zoom during the pandemic and he is so nice
Who's excited!!!!
@waitinthewings You’ve outdone yourself this time! Best one yet!
Thank you Jacob!!
I saw the Opera's premier at the Met. Lorraine Hunt-Liberson as Myrtle was the best thing in the production. Not one of my favorite nights at the theatre. The beginning had Daisy singing" It's hooot, it's hot." Nuff said.
When we watched the movie in class I looked at the fight scene and though "you know this would make for a great musical number" honestly I'm not surprised it's a musical now because it just seemed like the natural evolution it was a book the a bunch of movies and now a musical
The Jaime Lyn Beatty tiktok mention yessss 🤣
thank god someone is talking about a killer party
I’m seeing one in Boston this summer just called Gatsby. It’s got music by Florence Welch
Why did they remove Sophisticated? That was their best song!
absolute rose is better tbh
Sounded good but absolute rose played more towards the plot
This was so interesting! The Great Gatsby is one of my favourites novels and I wish I could watch this show so much to get an idea of it! Especially because so far, base on what I've been told, it seems like they stripped the story of all it's meaning. I've been told they've just reduced it to a love story. Which was already what I thought since they placed Gatsby and Daisy as the leads.
Can't wait for the cast recording to come out because I loved Roaring On but I really disliked My Green Light.
So I’ve watched the musical and I can say that hasn’t really been reduced to a love story. A lot of people are taking mere portions of “My Green Light” and “Roaring On” and assuming that all they’ve seen from those 2 songs are the meat of the entire musical. The entire point of “My Green Light” isn’t to romanticize Jay and Daisy. The entire meaning of that song is that they had love before and knew there was something between them. Unfortunately that was back then and now both have gone on with separate lives, especially Daisy as she has a family with Tom. While she loves Gatsby and her love has been reignited, she understands that she cannot leave Tom as she built everything about Gatsby not being there. That entire song is about reaching for the unreachable, and if you thought you were close to getting it, it continues to become out of reach. That’s what the green light is about. Roaring on is meant to not be an introduction of the plot, but rather inviting us to the musical and what the timeline is. You have to watch the musical in its full to truly compare them both
This was very well done! Bravo, Old Sport! I do have a question though, how was Myrtle's "a very different death" in the musical? She was hit by the yellow car in the book and in the show.
The pregnancy?
@@ChristyLoveSinging7 yeah, that could be it since she wasn't pregnant in the novel.
Also the fact that [SPOILERS!!!] she chooses to go back to her husband over Tom which fundamentally changes her character and the death is different because she doesn’t run into the car trying go chase after it. They swerve and hit her from behind lol
Has there been any rumblings of a Westend transfer yet? Or is it too soon to tell? How long does it normally take to guess/know if a show might transfer?
Question: should I read the book or watch the musical first? If I were to see the show, I would probably see the show sometime in early August, but my school is assigning this book and we’re probably reading it during the second semester or late December. I don’t know which one is better to have seen first. Advice?
It is always best to go into any musical not knowing the source material or plot. The only exception to this currently is Wicked since they assume you know most of those character's futures. When you study the book in December you will enjoy an even richer experience than can be presented in 2 1/2 hours. Also, this plot is very clearly told with first rate actors and dazzling design.
I SAW YOU AT THE GATSBY STAGE DOOR
"and we left" is wilddd lmaooo
After that intro, I really want a video about Man Of La Mancha from you-
i loved a killer party!
So was this video actually sponsored by The Great Gatsby?
Yep! Sponsored to help pay for the team and they let us film in the theater/set up interviews.
Content wise though they were pretty hands off (just a few factual corrections) So what you’re seeing is what I would’ve written whether we were working with them or not. :)
At the end (maybe because I have seen too many Simpsons episodes) I was expecting a quick cut to “The show closed after 5 performances”
Out of curiosity did the Gatsby team reach out to you to make this documentary or did you reach out to them?
To think, all of the dominos that fell because a kinda failed and unpopular book ended up on the soldier's library list in WWII
The timeline of Gatsby adaptations is pure GATZ erasure 😢
But also, hot damn does it feel like this marketing push is timed to try and take advantage of any hype that Florence/ART Gatsby get this weekend.
Purely coincidence as far as Florence is concerned (I wanted to release last week) and Gatz deserves a whole video on its own. I’m seeing it at the Public and am FASCINATED by it
@@WaitintheWings - Gatz: An Audiobook but make it IMMERSIVE
This Great Gatsby situation with two different musical adaptations is the Wild Party from 1999 all over again 😂 Remember that?
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@@johnyesjustjohn He covered it?? Damn, I must have missed that part 😂
34:28 omg reeve carney
23:48 a... a wha.... what?? 😏
*Why do you keep changing your thumbnails...?*
I’m assuming it’s an algorithm thing channels like smosh and try guys do stuff like this as well (I could be wrong tho)
Every time I see these videos where we see the developmente of a show I wanna be so much part of it, since I studied to be an actor (for normal theatre, not musical theatre specifically) and as a huge musical fan I've always wanted to musicals, unfortunately in my country musicals aren't really that well received, and even professional productions tend to seem cheap and not that well-made, but I know for a fact nothing will ever happen for me to have a chance to move let's say to the UK or the US to do it because, well, money, everything is too expensive, and even to master my craft, singing or acting, I would need to spend more money than what I currently have, which is very little, despite having a job and everything, and I don't know why I'm writing this comment, since I know nobody really cares, but I just wanted to get my thoughts out of my head, sorry for wasting your time
Sweaty Oracle is one of my favorite TikTokers. I'd love it if you found a way to collaborate with him.
LETS GOOOOO 💥🤘💚
YESSS OLD SPORT
Okay. I do not mean to sound rude at all, I would like to be informed on the situation.
Can someone explain to me why the mask joke is exactly tasteless? I always interpreted it as a double entendre to being “done with the Spanish flu” and the end of the COVID pandemic.
I would love to be informed on what I’m missing as to why it’s tasteless. I do not mean to sound rude at all, I would just like to know what tasteless joke I’m not picking up on. Thank you :)
I can only speak to my interpretation of it, which is that although covid has radically decreased, it is not "done" with us yet. The Spanish Flu was a type of influenza (H1N1 virus), that actually did dissipate, making the mask-tossing justified. Covid, by comparison, has the continued power to cause immense internal damage (inner lining of veins, heart, brain, etc.), even in people who were asymptomatic when actually positive. Hence the tastelessness of that gesture.
Im just gonna say hearing the florence gatsby score kinda makes this ones pale in comparison
Is any snippet out anywhere?
@@makdm2405 idk if it is i have listened to the demos Florence recorded singing bc a friend is working on it
@JL0ndon if it sounds anything like her albums, it's gonna be GREAT
@@makdm2405 it sounds like her albums, but has a very industrial motif throughout, hell I would love for her to release these demos cuz she sings every part. If I'm gonna be honest it probably the best musical score I've heard in years. It's so different from anything on Broadway rn
@@makdm2405 The musical is premiering officially on Sunday so I figure we'll start getting some releases somewhere
I am very curious about the new gatsby shows coming to broadway, thank you so much for your video! I would like to point out though that this is not the first ever Gatsby musical, in fact there is a very successful japanese musical version written and directed by Koike Shuuichiro. It has an amazing score and has had many restages since its debut by the all female Takarazuka Revue in 1991. It recently had a restage in 2022 with a huge budget upgrade that included incredibly stunning projection mapping and real cars driving onstage aswell as gorgeous sets and costumes. It was one of the most amazing theatre experiences I've ever had. You can find lots of clips from it on youtube:
ua-cam.com/video/XNJDcdeh_Uw/v-deo.html the press conference performance of two of the most notable songs from the show 2022
ua-cam.com/video/_HLHaoTZo_g/v-deo.html 10 min digest of opening night 2022
ua-cam.com/video/ougxzn0VWaw/v-deo.html clip of gatsbys first big number from the 1991 production
Shying away from the darker elements is precisely why most Gatsby adaptations have failed. This musical seems to be no different. Let's hope the Florence Welch one has more balls.
31:50 JAIME LYN BEATTY???
so a 40 minute ad. okay XD
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Y’all can argue that the musical missed the point, and in some aspects it does. But it does hit other key points, and is a great show anyways