This song-and-dance version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's enduring 1925 novel about, among other things, American excess in the aftermath of World War I, is excessive all right.
The musical almost never brings to mind 'The Great Gatsby' and misses its intoxicating atmosphere, meaning, and layered characters, becoming a patchwork quilt of discordant styles.
The gaudy barrage of clone ballads blare like a foghorn, the art deco sets are oversize, and the overall show is a hodgepodge of many other shows, missing the essence of the original novel.
The musical adaptation is criticized for its bombastic songs resembling gothic musicals and for veering into styles of other productions, ultimately failing to do justice to 'The Great Gatsby.'
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