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‘Gatsby’ Review: A Smartly Stinging Musical Adaptation With Spectacle, Grit and Florence Welch Tunes
With score by Welch and Thomas Bartlett and book by Martyna Majok, "Gatsby" never forgets the story is a stinging rebuke of the American Dream.
Most adaptations — including the entirely separate musical currently on Broadway — focus on the routine romantic triangle among the mysterious Gatsby (Isaac Powell), bigoted capitalist Tom Buchanan (Cory Jeacoma) and Daisy (Charlotte MacInnes), the one-time Louisville belle for whom they vie. These additions — and moments in which ordinary working stiffs are given opportunities to take stage — deepen the critique of the hedonism and cult of celebrity that followed World War I and, it’s suggested, continue to plague us today. After winning Oscars for colorful frocks on the order of “Shakespeare in Love,” Sandy Powell seems to revel in the opportunity to explore a black-and-white aesthetic that can evoke elegance or deprivation with equal alacrity.
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