Yet another Gatsby
Yet another Gatsby
DaveyG
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/05
#3Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 10:12am
Hasn't the Regé-Jean Page moment kind of passed?
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
witchoftheeast2
Leading Actor Joined: 9/25/24
#4Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 11:20am
Still waiting on the adaptation from Houston and Levitt (iykyk)
#5Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 11:37am
AC126748 said: "Hasn't the Regé-Jean Page moment kind of passed?"
I’d argue the Gatsby moment has also passed.
#6Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 11:53am
So because "His moment has passed", he can't work and do a play in London? He has done theatre there in the past and splits his time there. And the musical did a limited run there from what I read. You all act like there are Gatsby productions playing everywhere. Don't go see them if their "moments have passed". JMO
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#7Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 11:59am
Since Gatsby is in the public domain now, I'm surprised we're just getting straightforward adaptations and not wackier takes and deconstructions and the like.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#8Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:00pm
" You all act like there are Gatsby productions playing everywhere"
Well in London alone we had the Gatsby immersive experience and musical that felt relatively recent, so I can see how it seems a bit over exposed.
When my goodbye post was removed: “but I had a great dramatic finish!!!!”
#9Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:03pm
binau said: ""You all act like there are Gatsby productions playing everywhere"
Well in London alone we had the Gatsby immersive experience and musical that felt relatively recent, so I can see how it seems a bit over exposed."
I can see that. I don't follow London theater closely. I guess it's just the negativity that gets tiring to read!
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
SteveSanders
Broadway Star Joined: 3/29/25
#10Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:09pm
Kad said: "Since Gatsby is in the public domain now, I'm surprised we're just getting straightforward adaptations and not wackier takes and deconstructions and the like."
Now this would be a fun subejct to brainstorm after a few cocktails.
#11Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:09pm
I mean, this is at least the third major Gatsby theatrical adaptation that has happened in the last couple years, to say nothing of the immersive experiences.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#12Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:23pm
uncageg said: "You all act like there are Gatsby productions playing everywhere."
I mean, they are, kind of.
And this board is all “JMO,” so you don’t need to snipe at people voicing theirs and try to sugar coat it by adding JMO at the end of the statement.
#13Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:32pm
ColorTheHours048 said: "uncageg said: "You all act like there are Gatsby productions playing everywhere."
I mean, they are, kind of.
And this board is all “JMO,” so you don’t need to snipe at people voicing theirs and try to sugar coat it by adding JMO at the end of the statement."
If you have read my comments over the years, I usually put JMO at the end of my comments. I don't sugar coat things whether you think I do or not.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#14Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:33pm
Kad said: "Since Gatsby is in the public domain now, I'm surprised we're just getting straightforward adaptations and not wackier takes and deconstructions and the like."
Please don't give anyone any ideas.
#15Yet another Gatsby
Posted: 2/11/26 at 12:39pm
What irks me about all these productions is that I don't think they have anything to do with some great love for the book--a genuine classic, if unfortunately no longer appealing to a lot of readers--it's just the exploitation of an IP.
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