As Gatsby, Jeremy Jordan is an excellent singer and a lot of Jason Howland’s music is lovely, but we never really understand what this new musical is trying to say.
Jeremy Jordan, Eva Noblezada and cast in “The Great Gatsby” at the Broadway Theatre in New York.
That said, this new musical, as penned by Kait Kerrigan with music composed by Jason Howland and lyrics by Nathan Tysen, makes you feel very little, except for when Howland’s lush melodies reach their climaxes and, even then, the feelings that flow are more admiration for Howland’s compositional art and craft than the kind of emotion that transfers into an embrace of story.
Why the strange remove? A decision was made here to convert everything into dialogue and eschew the famous narrative voice of Nick Carraway, which has the effect of making you wonder what he is now doing in the show, given his peripheral relationship to the central story of Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan and the impact of that quest on Tom Buchanan , Myrtle Wilson , Jordan Baker and George Wilson .
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