Florence + The Machine frontwoman Florence Welch’s forthcoming The Great Gatsby musical adaptation is about to premiere on Broadway subsequent 12 months.
Entitled Gatsby, the present will premiere at Harvard University’s American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in accordance with Rolling Stone.
Welch is collaborating with producer Thomas Bartlett, who data music as Doveman. It might be directed by Rachel Chavkin whereas Sonya Tayeh might be chargeable for the choreography.
“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life. It contains some of my favourite lines in literature,” she beforehand mentioned of the brand new challenge in an announcement in 2021.
“Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to [F. Scott] Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honour to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.”
This isn’t the primary time Welch has labored on a Fitzgerald challenge. In 2013, she contributed to the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio with the observe ‘Over The Love’.
The soundtrack additionally featured Lana Del Rey‘s ‘Young And Beautiful’.
Meanwhile, Florence + The Machine will headline this 12 months’s Rock En Seine alongside Billie Eilish, Placebo, The Chemical Brothers and The Strokes.
The occasion’s twentieth anniversary version is because of happen in Domaine National de Saint-Cloud, Paris between August 23 and August 27.
Other confirmed acts embody Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foals, Wet Leg, Fever Ray, Turnstile, Angel Olsen, Dry Cleaning and The Murder Capital. Any remaining tickets may be bought right here.
Last 12 months’s occasion featured headline performances from the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.