About the Show

Jamie Muscato & Frances Mayli McCann lead this musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s jazz-age spectacle.

Step into the roaring 1920s as F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel comes alive in a dazzling new musical. Mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby throws extravagant parties in hopes of rekindling a lost love, but beneath the glitz lies a tale of longing, illusion, and the elusive American Dream.

Following a successful Broadway run, The Great Gatsby: The Musical makes its European premiere at the London Coliseum. Jamie Muscato (Moulin Rouge!) stars as Jay Gatsby, with Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie & Clyde) as Daisy Buchanan. The cast also features Corbin Bleu (High School Musical) as Nick Carraway, Amber Davies (9 to 5, Pretty Woman) as Jordan Baker, Jon Robyns (Les Misérables, Hamilton) as Tom Buchanan, Rachel Tucker (Come From Away, Wicked) as Myrtle Wilson, Joel Montague (Hamilton, School of Rock) as George Wilson, and John Owen-Jones (Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera) as Meyer Wolfsheim.

Directed by Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), with choreography by Dominique Kelley (So You Think You Can Dance), the production features a book by Kait Kerrigan (The Mad Ones) and an original jazz- and pop-infused score by Jason Howland (Little Women) and Nathan Tysen (Paradise Square).

Critic Reviews (9)

“Even as disaster strikes, this spectacular party never ends.”
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“It’s ravishing, one of those Broadway shows that really looks like a Broadway show… but beyond that, everything just feels a bit… off.”
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“This is a big, brash show that fills the cavernous Coliseum. If it’s also a little empty beneath the razzmatazz, perhaps that doesn’t matter.”
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"As US public life enters an era of unprecedented crassness, it feels odd to drown out, rather than expose, Fitzgerald’s critique of this moneyed circle. Gold dresses are pretty, but greed isn’t good."
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"It’s as if Fitzgerald’s prose had been transformed into a graphic novel printed in extra-large capital letters."
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"this production encapsulates the worst of peacockingly splashy entertainment – the kind whose soul has been suctioned out in the making."
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"we get a screechy clodhopping musical that amps up the Roaring Twenties clichés at the expense of anything Fitzgerald had to say about class, money and the scissoring chasms between appearances and reality."
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"it’s neither cynical enough to really explore the dark underbelly of the F Scott Fitzgerald story with which it flirts, nor is it distinguished enough to provide the uplift of musical theatre at its best"
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