Jeremy Jordan Back to GATSBY for the Holidays

I'd expect him returning would be with the show closing, which indeed if this is the actual timing, would make sense to close before the January duldrums.

i hope he's bringing back Eva with him.....

Going the Aaron Tveit/Moulin Rouge route I see. Curious to see how Moulin Rouge survives into 2026 without being able to pull him in for a boost given he's in Chess when they usually tap him in. Even when they do, it's to diminishing returns.

I wouldn’t agree with the assessment that Jeremy is overexposed. He’s had a very steady rise to a relatively bankable career as a lead on Broadway (one flop, in this case FLOYD COLLINS, doesn’t define the whole). If anything, I would make the argument that Jonathan Groff is a better example of overexposure

FLOYD COLLINS was also a very niche, depressing musical that meant a lot to a very small group of people that were burned through in very short order. If done commercially without a subscriber base in a larger house than the Beaumont, there’s a high likelihood that it would’ve bombed hard.

Bringing him back for a brief run seems prudent, but they should be able to find someone else. It’s not Tveit-level territory of 2-3 extra tours of duty.

Aside: Although my natural inclination is to hope Eva would finally take a vacation of sorts, given the precarious stability of theatre currently, grab the work while she still can.

singer234 said: "Eva has played her career so smartly. She does so much, yet she picks her projects so carefully. To go from Saigon at age 17,where everyone was wondering what's next, to Hadestown, where everyone again wondered what's next, to Gatsby, where she got to reinvent herself as a bit of an ingenue, back to Hadestown to capitalize off her earlier success, and then to Cabaret, bringing new attention to the revival while starring on Broadway in one of the best female roles in musical theatre. All before/right around the age of30.

I have to imagine she has saved up a good amount of money while creating one of the most consistent resumes for a young Broadway musical theatre actress in recent memory. She deserves a vacation, but she knows that-clearly she's enjoying striking while the iron is hot, which seems to only be making it hotter. So many people in her shoes would have left after Miss Saigon for the first TV show offer that came her way. She committed to Broadway, and Broadway committed to her. Can't wait to see what's next."

Agreed, as Eva did a phenomenal job in the one episode of SVU she did during Covid. She seems to like the flexibility that doing Broadway and the occasional concert offers her.


That said- apparently, Jeremy had an arrangement that he would complete his contract with Gatsby (approximately 2 months) in exchange for being released to do Floyd through an out clause. I can’t help but wonder if Eva has a similar arrangement.