The Great Gatsby - Theatrical Production

The Great Gatsby - Theatrical Production at Fisher Theatre - MI

Jay Gatsby wants one thing: to rewrite the past and reclaim Daisy Buchanan. That desire gives the glamour its emotional stakes. The Great Gatsby builds a Tony-winning musical around that hunger, and watching it onstage means feeling the weight of ambition collide with reality in real time.

Marc Bruni directs and Dominique Kelley choreographs this adaptation, which features an original jazz-and-pop score by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen and a book by Kait Kerrigan. For a reader attached to Fitzgerald's world, hearing its characters in a musical can be part of the attraction.

The combination of a familiar novel and an original score gives you two reasons to make a theatre plan. You can return to a story that already matters to you while discovering how song and choreography approach its relationships. Invite a companion who enjoys a romance with difficult choices, and give yourselves a performance with something to discuss afterward.

Gatsby can buy the parties, the mansion and the illusion that everything is possible. What he cannot buy is the past. That's the ache at the center of this musical, and hearing it in a live jazz-and-pop score gives the story a different kind of urgency. The Fisher Theatre hosts Tuesday's Detroit performance. If you love a romance that refuses to play fair, take a seat and let The Great Gatsby pull you into its beautiful mistake.