Gatsby

May 26, 2024 - Aug 3, 2024
Loeb Drama Center
Run Time: 2 hours and 40 minutes, including one intermission

Keep the story on the stage: this performance will be a phone-free experience. Use of cellphones, smart accessories, cameras, or recording devices will not be permitted in the performance space—just like if it were the roaring ’20s!

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A dazzling world premiere with soaring, soulful music and a stunningly talented ensemble.

The Boston Globe

A smartly stinging musical adaptation with spectacle, grit, and Florence Welch tunes.

Variety

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel The Great Gatsby comes to new life in this world-premiere musical with a score by international rock star Florence Welch (Florence + the Machine) and Oscar and Grammy Award nominee Thomas Bartlett (Doveman), and a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok (Cost of Living).

Gatsby is directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; Moby-Dick) with choreography by Tony Award winner Sonya Tayeh (Moulin Rouge!).

Gatsby will be produced at American Repertory Theater by special arrangement with Amanda Ghost and Len Blavatnik for Unigram/Access Entertainment, and Jordan Roth, in association with Robert Fox and co-producer Hannah Giannoulis.

This production contains depictions of suicide, violence, loud noises, gunshot sounds, bright and flashing lights, fog, and haze. Recommended for ninth grade and up.

Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett
Lyrics by Florence Welch
Book by Martyna Majok
Music Supervision by Kimberly Grigsby
Choreographed by Sonya Tayeh
Directed by Rachel Chavkin

Notable dates

Opening Night: 6/5
ASL Interpreted: 7/10 at 7:30PM & 7/14 at 2PM
Audio Described: 6/27 at 7:30PM & 6/29 at 2PM
Open Captioned: 6/27 at 7:30PM & 6/29 at 2PM
Relaxed: 7/14 at 2PM

Production Sponsors
Katie and Paul Buttenwieser
The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust
Janet and Irv Plotkin

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Content Key

Language 2 out of 5
Violence 3 out of 5
Sexuality 3 out of 5
Substance Use 1 out of 5

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Isaac Powell dips Charlotte MacInnes on a curved staircase, with a light reflecting through the arch of her back.

First Look at Gatsby

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Seated at a table, Rachel Chavkin rests her head on her hand as she turns to look at Keenan Tyler Oliphant speaking next to her.

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Solea Pfeiffer sits on Cory Jeacoma's lap, their faces touching, while dancers in a mass of tangled limbs are bathed in a blue light to their left.

The Boston Globe

A Gatsby that’s great! A dazzling world premiere with soaring, soulful music and a stunningly talented ensemble.

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A Gatsby that’s great! A dazzling world premiere with soaring, soulful music and a stunningly talented ensemble.

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Isaac Powell holds Charlotte MacInnes by the waste on a curved staircase, looking over a group of dancers leaning backwards in two rows.

Variety

Jaw Dropping! A smartly stinging musical adaptation with spectacle, grit and Florence Welch tunes.

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Jaw Dropping! A smartly stinging musical adaptation with spectacle, grit and Florence Welch tunes.

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Ben Levi Ross in a black suit leans on a stair railing holding a coupe glass, while ensemble members dance down the stairs.

BroadwayWorld

Breathtaking and heartbreaking. A fresh reimagining [by] a creative team that can only be described as the best of the best working today.

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Breathtaking and heartbreaking. A fresh reimagining [by] a creative team that can only be described as the best of the best working today.

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Cambridge Day

A triumph! Captivating & brilliantly executed, a show that alternately dazzles and devastates.

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A triumph! Captivating & brilliantly executed, a show that alternately dazzles and devastates.

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METR Mag

Outstanding! Fires on all cylinders. Will have you intrigued at the start and exhilarated throughout. Don’t miss this incredible new musical.

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Outstanding! Fires on all cylinders. Will have you intrigued at the start and exhilarated throughout. Don’t miss this incredible new musical.

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The New England Theatre Geek

Expressive, rich, and deeply satisfying. A retelling for a modern audience.

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Expressive, rich, and deeply satisfying. A retelling for a modern audience.

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Boston Herald

A.R.T. reshapes Broadway-bound ‘Gatsby’ musical

“This is truly one of the best scores of the last decade and is at once incredibly modern and feels of the era too,” [actor Ben Levi] Ross said. “It’s so lush and full, and yet kind of experimental and so accessible. I don’t think any of this music is ever going to feel dated.”

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Rachel Chavkin with her hand on her chin and Martyna Majok with her arms at her side stand facing each other in front of large, black industrial doors.

The Boston Globe

‘Gatsby’ arrives at the ART, driven by a powerhouse creative team

Gatsby himself is a self-mythologizing hero—a rags-to-riches Horatio Alger type. But the real myth, Chavkin asserts, is the contradiction at the heart of the nation’s promise, the beckoning green light that’s called people to its shores for generations, and the broken dreams that lie in its wake.

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On either side of Solea Pfeiffer in a white dress, Ben Levi Ross and Isaac Powell lean into kiss her, while she stares at the camera.

Boston.com

Q&A: ‘Myrtle’ actress Solea Pfeiffer on why A.R.T.’s new ‘Gatsby’ musical is so great

“I think The Great Gatsby reminds us of how history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. We’ve been here before—will we learn this time?” [says Pfeiffer].

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“I think The Great Gatsby reminds us of how history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. We’ve been here before—will we learn this time?” [says Pfeiffer].

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Seated at a table, Martyna Majok gesticulates while speaking to other people.

The Culture Show

Martyna Majok, the Nakba in photographs, and film

“I think [The Great Gatsby] is one of the most potently American stories that we have. I find it to be both the most clear-eyed and hopeful of what I think the American soul is,” Majok said. “I associate really deeply with Gastby. His story, who he is, resonates really deeply with me.”

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Alan C. Edwards in a black graphic tee, Mimi Lien in a black-and-white diagonally striped blouse, Rahcel Chavkin in a blue dress and black top, Sonya Tayeh in a colorful jacket and black shirt, and Sandy Powell in a black jacket and colorful scarf pose for the camera.

The Bay State Banner

‘Gatsby’ at ART reimagines Fitzgerald’s classic tale

“I want people to walk away from this story thinking about how accustomed we have gotten to seeing certain bodies being on the other end of violence,” says Pfeiffer. “How can we examine that this country has been built in a way that has allowed us to treat each other like this? When do we stand up for our neighbors?”

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The Harvard Gazette

That old ‘Gatsby’ magic, made new

“Gatsby” is not just a novel — it is America’s imagining of itself. A reflection on the glamour and the hollowness of the American Dream.

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“Gatsby” is not just a novel — it is America’s imagining of itself. A reflection on the glamour and the hollowness of the American Dream.

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Cambridge Day

Cambridge ‘Gatsby’ adaptation gets extended run to explore Fitzgerald’s American Dream tragedy

Chavkin [describes] her interpretation as an exploration of a romantic and painful “American tragedy” that the creative team will be able to illuminate with a “visceral visions.”

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Chavkin [describes] her interpretation as an exploration of a romantic and painful “American tragedy” that the creative team will be able to illuminate with a “visceral visions.”

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Isaac Powell in a blue herringbone-patterned shirt sitting on a boat in the water.

The Boston Globe

Isaac Powell—the lead in the ‘Gatsby’—excited for a summer in Boston

I am excited for people to be reintroduced to these characters in a new context, and for people to hear this music. It is truly some of the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard.

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I am excited for people to be reintroduced to these characters in a new context, and for people to hear this music. It is truly some of the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard.

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TheaterMania

Catching Up with Martyna Majok

It was very meaningful to revisit [The Great Gatsby] in the depth of the pandemic, in my 30s…The story takes place after the end of a World War and after a pandemic that killed a third of the world’s population, mostly young people. I understood the kind of feral hunger of the parties and everybody trying to pursue meaning to make up for the death and destruction they had witnessed.

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Get to Know the Music of Florence + the Machine

Whether you need an introduction or know every lyric, this playlist has the all of the essential Florence + the Machine songs for you to get a feel for the music in this world premiere.

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Whether you need an introduction or know every lyric, this playlist has the all of the essential Florence + the Machine songs for you to get a feel for the music in this world premiere.

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The cover of Careless People by Sarah Churchwell; the cover of This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald; the poster for the film The Last Tycoon.

Audience Support Resources

Harvard-trained psychologist Dr. Charmain Jackman offers support for audiences through a culturally responsive and trauma-informed lens.

Essential Question

How can we build a new world that is in conversation with those that came before?

A.R.T. leads with inquiry and asks questions in a spirit of brave curiosity in a never-ending journey of learning and growth. For each production, the creative team, company, and Engagement team develop an Essential Question to guide work in the rehearsal room, onstage, and for engaging with audiences.