THE GREAT GATSBY Opening Night Critics’ Reviews- Page 7

[Fan123]

Posted: 2/18/25 at 3:25am

The show will also open in South Korea this year, not surprising I suppose.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/south-korea/article/THE-GREAT-GATSBY-Will-Premiere-in-South-Korea-This-Year-20250212

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 2/24/25 at 5:20pm

Samantha Pauly is taking a two-week medical leave starting tonight due to a labral tear in her hip. She is expected to return on March 12. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 3/5/25 at 3:35pm

Michael Maliakel is the next Nick Carraway, starting March 31.

[trentsketch]

Posted: 3/14/25 at 6:40am

Finally saw this yesterday. It's better than I thought it would be.

The current cast has beautiful voices and really sings the show well. We had Austin Colby on for Tom and he was really good. You could easily see how people were drawn to Tom despite his brutish flaws.

The costumes are spectacular live. Holy hell Linda Cho knocked it out of the park. I also really like the use of the projector screens and moving panels on the set. The depth created to show the social difference of Gatsby vs Buchanan vs Wilson was really effective for the storytelling.

Act II is everything I want in an adaptation of Great Gatsby. It's a wild dive to the inevitable destruction. I think Act I is a bit slow, especially with the ballads dominating the second half, but they're staged really well and the cast gets a lot to work with vocally. 

I liked it better than I thought I would. I question the efficacy of a Gatsby adaptation where I cared more for Myrtle than most of the other characters, but it's an enjoyable enough show. The student group I brought really got into it.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 5/13/25 at 11:36am

Sarah Hyland will depart the musical on June 15, and Aisha Jackson will replace her as Daisy starting the next day. 

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 6:19pm

Anyone seeing Aisha’s Daisy debut tonight?

[Jarethan]

Posted: 6/16/25 at 10:54pm

I actually saw this a couple of weeks ago, only because of the Thursday matinee.  I would not have seen it otherwise.  I did not hate it, as I expected to.  I had seen the competing version in Cambridge last year, which I thought was far superior; but again I was never bored, even if I would not recommend it to anyone without a lot of caveats. 

Also, the invented romance between Nick and Jordan aside, I thought it did a better job of capturing the novel than I expected. 

Positives:

-- I absolutely loved the lavishness of the production.  I thought the sets were terrific, as were the costumes.

-- The person playing Nick was excellent.  The actor playing Gatsby and Sarah Hyland were fine.

-- The choreography, while not particularly original, was entertaining.

-- I was surprised that Sarah Hyland had a pretty good singing voice, with a lot of power.

Negatives:

-- I lost count of the number of times the leading performers really got really pitchy / went off key trying to sing all the power ballads.  It was embarrassing.  Since the songs were not exactly Ragtime or Les Mis calibre, it was tiring.

Conclusion:

-- It filled a slot that otherwise would not have been filled, and I was entertained, instantly forgettable as it was, sets and costumes aside, it was not boring.  

-- It is really a shame that the Florence Welsh version seems to have lost this round.  It was much better and probably would not require a barn of a theatre, because it was not particularly lavish and I dont recall it having a large cast.