A new stage musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald masterpiece The Great Gatsby is headed for Broadway, with music by Florence + the Machine’s Florence Welch and Oscar-nominated “Mystery of Love” song producer Thomas Bartlett.The musical, announced today by producers Len Blavatnik and Amanda Ghost for Unigram in association with Robert Fox, will feature a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok, with Welch writing lyrics.
Olivier Award nominee Rebecca Frecknall (the West End’s Summer and Smoke) will direct.“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said in a statement. “It contains some of my favorite lines in literature.
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