Florence + The Machine’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ musical to premiere in 2024
nme.comFlorence + The Machine frontwoman Florence Welch’s forthcoming The Great Gatsby musical adaptation is set to premiere on Broadway next year.Entitled Gatsby, the show will premiere at Harvard University’s American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, according to Rolling Stone.Welch is collaborating with producer Thomas Bartlett, who records music as Doveman.
It will be directed by Rachel Chavkin while Sonya Tayeh will be responsible for the choreography.“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life.
It contains some of my favourite lines in literature,” she previously said of the new project in a statement in 2021.“Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to [F.
Scott] Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honour to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.”This isn’t the first time Welch has worked on a Fitzgerald project.
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