Your English teacher would hate this ‘Great Gatsby’

A new “Great Gatsby” musical on Broadway is all about its protagonist’s decadence.

The orgiastic delights of Jay Gatsby’s parties mostly lurk between the lines of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s clipped prose. But there is nothing coy about the extravagant stage musical that opened Thursday at the Broadway Theatre, where a cascade of visual splendors showers the eye like a fire hose. When actual sparks rain down on the first soiree, toss any hankering for subtlety out the window.

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Daisy’s husband Tom , her ticket to this fabulous life, is the philandering brute she knows him to be. But the couple’s durable if brittle bond, forged in old-money breeding — so integral to the narrative’s structure — is imperceptible from the start. The audience is clearly meant to ask, “Why is she withThat would be the debonair Gatsby , sapped of mystery and crooning in wistful high registers about the one who slipped through his fingers but is now within reach.

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