‘Great Gatsby’ review: Broadway musical messes up beloved novel
nypost.comTwo hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Broadway Theatre, 53rd Street and Broadway.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 gaudy barrage of clone ballads by composer Jason Howland and lyricist Nathan Tysen (“Paradise Square”), indiscriminately handed out to any character who wants one, blare like a foghorn on the Long Island Sound.And the attractive art deco sets by Paul Tate DePoo III are so oppulent and oversize that I had a flashback to watching “King Kong” in the very same theater six years ago.But now, a monkey isn’t captive — your favorite novel is.Inferior “Gatsby,” directed bigly by Marc Bruni, is a hodgepodge of many other shows that came before it.During an impressive all-company tap number called “La Dee Dah With You,” the show briefly ventures into “Anything Goes” Land.
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