Chavkin-directed GATSBY musical from Welch and Majok to premiere in 2024 — Page 4

As will the set! Mimi Lien has a way with opulence! (I don't remember this previously being announced, but am I just forgetting?)

barcelona20 said: "Actually, this is strange. I must have clicked on the one of the few performances that this is happening at. The blurb isn't on most of the performances. My bad..."

If they are talking about Yondr pouches (and I still don't see evidence of that) perhaps they are testing it out to see if its something they will use long term?

QueenAlice said: "dramamama611 said: "As will the set! Mimi Lien has a way with opulence! (I don't remember this previously being announced, but am I just forgetting?)"

Most of Mimi Lien's designs verge on minimalist. I certainly didn't think she did anything special with Sweeney Todd."

Blame the director on that one.

There was no reason for Sweeney to be opulent. Great Comet was stunning, Spider-man and Little Mermaid, while I disliked both shows, were also visually a treat.

Yes, I saw Comet in all its incarnations. To me, It's true oppulance was its lighting and its size (which got bigger and more bloated as the production moved along -- it was best at Ars Nova). And the design was largely inspired by the theatre build out of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Mimi was not the set designer for Mermaid or Spider Man - she was the assistant to the designers on those shows.

Given the subtitle of this adaptation is “An American Myth” and the work of Florence Welch generally, i cannot imagine this will be a particularly straightforward adaptation.

Rehearsals are scheduled to start on Monday, so I'm hoping for a cast announcement.

Broadway Flash said: "I don’t see this coming to ny any time in the near future. Especially now that the other Gatsby is a hit, will be nominated for Best Musical and perform at the Tony’s, and will most likely be running for a while, the pressure is probably off on chavkin to just do a production with little expectation that this is going anywhere anytime soon. I could see this taking the Lempicka route with multiple out of towns and then broadway maybe in a decade or so."

So Gatsby is a hit based on early previews in two of the busiest weeks of the year?

Broadway Flash said: "Their advance is good and word of mouth is great"

Flash has been pushing Papermill Gatbsy in all of these threads so hard to a point it becomes shill like. So, take that under consideration.

I think the Yondr pouches are a smart idea, but it selfishly makes me sad because I was hoping for some sort of a demo or cast recording sooner rather than later! Seems they’re really banking on the music being next level in a way that no one has heard yet. So if it’s not my favorite score of the year I’m going to be very disappointed, lol. Still very optimistic.

re: the other Gatsby, I think it’s important to remember that most of the people seeing and enjoying musicals on Broadway have no idea these message boards even exist. The reviews for the other Gatsby have been “meh” amongst people who write about theatre on this board, reddit, and some tiktok influencer account. To be fair, I’m sure lots of other people with no relationship to theatre dislike it, too. Still, the discussion we are seeing on the websites we, as theatre fans, are visiting, or by the conversations we are having with other hardcore theatregoers, may not mean much in terms of what probably at least 80% of the audience on any given night thinks of the show.

Updated On: 4/6/24 at 01:39 PM

jacobsnchz14 said: "Rehearsals are scheduled to start on Monday, so I'm hoping for a cast announcement."

Any casting rumors other than Solea?

Cast and creative team observing the eclipse (Solea Pfeiffer's tag was there, but was later removed; oops!):

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5g0V9-vTdj/

I'm assuming if they left his tag there, he's not in the cast, just there for Martyna.