Raise a toast, becauseF.
Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novelThe Great Gatsbyis becoming a stage musical with help fromFlorence Welch.
“It contains some of my favorite lines in literature.
Florence Welch is working on music for a new stage adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’.Charley Gallay/Getty Images; Simon & Schuster
Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism.
It is an honor to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.”
Executive producers for the stage play include Hannah Giannoulis and James Orange, with Access Entertainment co-producing.
A pre-Broadway engagement is expected to be announced in the days ahead.
The stage musical isn’t the onlyGatsbyproject of late.
