What 2024 Broadway musical is based on Fitzgerald's novel?
Answer
The Great Gatsby
The 2024 Broadway musical based on Fitzgerald’s novel is The Great Gatsby.
The musical has music by Jason Howland, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, and a book by Kait Kerrigan. It draws on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel about Jay Gatsby’s attempt to rekindle his romance with Daisy Buchanan, with Nick Carraway serving as the story’s observer and narrator.
The production first premiered at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse in October 2023. It transferred to Broadway’s Broadway Theatre, beginning previews on March 29, 2024, before its official opening on April 25. Jeremy Jordan played Gatsby and Eva Noblezada played Daisy in the original Broadway cast.
Readers sometimes confuse this show with Gatsby: An American Myth, another musical adaptation that premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2024. That production was not the Broadway musical described here. The Great Gatsby also differs from John Harbison’s opera, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1999.