gatsby the musical....really

[massofmen]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 5:58pm

When does the carnage end.,..really...great gatsby the musical? No one really likes that book. People pretend to but no one does. I really hope one of the characters is the big bilboard with the orange eyes..

[Rabekriegerin]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 6:04pm

"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

[B3TA07]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 6:32pm

o.O

[wonkit]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 6:33pm

There is an opera of this already.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 6:35pm

1. I know that I don't like it.
2. I actually COULD see it working, however. The characters are so excessive that I think it would make sense for them to sing and dance.
3. Doesn't mean I'd want to see it.

[mallardo]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 7:18pm

No one really likes The Great Gatsby? Really? What planet are you currently inhabiting?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 7:37pm

Someone once told me I couldn't possibly like "Moby Dick" as much as I claimed because no one likes "Moby Dick." And now no one likes "Gatsby"?

I feel the opposite -- people pretend to like WICKED and "Glee" and the "Harry Potter" and Lady Gaga, but no one really does. I mean, how could they? Honestly? It just doesn't seem possible.

Updated On: 8/9/11 at 07:37 PM

[massofmen]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 7:44pm

really..some of you like the great gatsby? Tell me why the book is so magnanimous?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 7:46pm

I'm not sure I could explain how any book is magnanimous.

Perhaps this explains a bit about why you didn't care for it.

[philly03]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 7:47pm

The Great Gatsby... no one likes it???? Regardless, it's one of the most read books in America I'm sure!

Speaking of F. Scott Fitzgerald, looks like the Frank Wildhorn musical "ZELDA" (AKA Waiting for the Moon) based off the lives of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald is getting it's (long awaited) second production in 2012!

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:02pm

I love Gatsby and to be honest, I can definitely see it working as a musical.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:03pm

I love The Great Gatsby. For starters, it's extremely well-written.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:13pm

I could imagine it singing, but given that no one's ever even made an adequate non-musical adaptation of it makes me think it may be a trickier proposition in practice than it may seem in theory.

[ReggieonBway]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:17pm

"I feel the opposite -- people pretend to like WICKED and "Glee" and the "Harry Potter" and Lady Gaga, but no one really does. I mean, how could they? Honestly? It just doesn't seem possible."

...so much...stupidity...

[massofmen]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:19pm

i am pretty sure I could explain how a bunch of novels are magnanimous. Les miserables, the fountainhead, Lolita, War and Peace, Catcher in the Rye, American Psycho..I can go on if you like..

and the reason why tons of americans read it is because in most high schools its required reading..If it weren;t i would imagine no one would really care. Like the book "a separate peace" no one would pick that book out of a book store to say "sweet God I have to read this". Les Miserables on the other hand...

i find Gatsby one of those novels that pseudo-intellectuals like to pour over at coffee shops in the east village. "the amazing subtextual nature and difference between East Egg and west egg shows the difference in the economic climate of the day, which is also analagous to the nazi's and the brits in the upcoming war" Ugh spare me. Its a trite book in my opinion. Let's leave it at that.

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:19pm

"I feel the opposite -- people pretend to like WICKED and "Glee" and the "Harry Potter" and Lady Gaga, but no one really does. I mean, how could they? Honestly? It just doesn't seem possible."

Are you trolling or are you just exceedingly ignorant?

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:21pm

I think a Gatsby musical that is a traditional book musical might not work, but an "expressionistic" musical in the Spring Awakening or Threepenny Opera style, where the songs express mood, tone and idea more than move the action and carry the story, especially with abstracted lyrics and images, might work really well.

I'm picturing a Gatsby interspersed with the music of David Bowie- the sort of bored, decadent excess that the book thrives on.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:25pm

It is on the reading list for our AP English students -- and while I can't speak for all of them, MANY of them DO like it.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:27pm

I am exceedingly ignorant. My apologies. I thought that had already been made clear.

Yes, massofmen, let's leave it at that.

I was considering asking you, also, how exactly "pseudo-intellectuals...pour over" it at coffee shops, as you're clearly into definition bending, but it's probably best we leave it at that.

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:31pm

I'm picturing a Gatsby interspersed with the music of David Bowie- the sort of bored, decadent excess that the book thrives on.

Please write this. Someone. Anyone. I just want to have the guilty pleasure of reading it.

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:37pm

"It is on the reading list for our AP English students -- and while I can't speak for all of them, MANY of them DO like it."

I'm an AP English student I love The Great Gatsby. I'm grateful for the AP reading list because it has brought so many books into my life that I would have never thought to read otherwise.

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:46pm

I think I"m one of only 12 people on the planet who actually liked the Redford film. It was reasonably close in tone to the book.

But then I also liked the opera, so who knows.

I think there's a musical in there. Hell, if they can musicalize CARRIE, why not?

[littlegreen2]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 8:57pm

"I think there's a musical in there. Hell, if they can musicalize CARRIE, why not?"

Excellent point.

[massofmen]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 9:16pm

you can musicalize anything as we have come to know and learn. I just think its a boring story that people like to pretend they like because it makes them look semi-intelligent in a world of "jersey shore" lovers.

to each his own. I think it stinks. Its my opinion.

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 8/9/11 at 9:28pm

I disliked most of the books I was required to read in high school, but Gatsby was one I really enjoyed and have re-read several times. I would love to see what Adam Guettel (another oft-derided artist that "pseudo-intellectuals" like myself are drawn to) could do with it.