By Ben Pearson/April 28, 2021 1:00 pm EST
“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said in a statement. “It contains some of my favourite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honour to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.” Welch has a lush, romantic, and haunting musical style which seems like a great fit for this material. In previous interviews, she’s pinpointed “sex, death, love, violence” as themes that she loves to explore, and all of those are on full display in Gatsby, so this seems like a dream project for her.
“I’m thrilled, honored, and inspired to work with this company of extraordinary artists, and to get to live in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s transcendent, gorgeous words,” Majok said. “I’m also overjoyed to be reunited with Rebecca Frecknall, with whom I had the most wonderful experience working on my play, Sanctuary City.”
The original cast recording of The Great Gatsby, A New Musical will be released on Warner Music.
