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.