{"id":29644,"date":"2025-04-18T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29644\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T07:32:11","slug":"great-gatsby-gets-musical-twist-in-london-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/29644\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Gatsby&#8217; gets musical twist in London theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                                                                                                                                                                         <strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\n                                        LONDON:<\/p>\n<p>        <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A musical incarnation of author F Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby has opened in London&#8217;s West End, offering audiences the chance to step into Jay Gatsby&#8217;s world of parties at his Long Island mansion near New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re out to deliver all of the opulence of Jay Gatsby and then also to tell this story about whether the American dream is possible,&#8221; said director Marc Bruni, at the show&#8217;s launch event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The novel is told through the eyes of Gatsby&#8217;s new neighbour, Nick Carraway, who becomes entwined in Gatsby&#8217;s life. But the musical version is &#8220;able to live in the heads of all of the characters,&#8221; Bruni said.<\/p>\n<p>The musical has an ongoing run on Broadway, where it opened a year ago. The London show stars Jamie Muscato as Gatsby, the self-made millionaire who holds lavish parties to try to win back his old love Daisy (Frances Mayli McCann), who is married to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Daisy is this beautifully tragic woman in the 1920s. She&#8217;s in this marriage for status and wealth &#8230; and then Jay Gatsby comes back into her life after five years,&#8221; said McCann.<\/p>\n<p>While the show is &#8220;very close&#8221; to the famous novel, scriptwriter Kait Kerrigan had &#8220;given the female characters more agency&#8221; in the musical version, McCann added.<\/p>\n<p>Since its release 100 years ago, Fitzgerald&#8217;s novel has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, according to press notes from the production. Screen adaptations include Australian director Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s 2013 movie version featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the great American story about class and about whether class mobility is possible,&#8221; said Bruni. &#8220;The message of that, as the gap between the haves and the have-nots gets wider and wider, feels ever more present and contemporary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Great Gatsby will run at The London Coliseum until September 7, 2025. Reuters<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON: A musical incarnation of author F Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s classic 1925 novel The Great Gatsby has opened in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,2998,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-29644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-latest","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114357806409454072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}