Florence + The Machine frontwoman Florence Welch’s forthcoming The Nice Gatsby musical adaptation is ready to premiere on Broadway subsequent yr.
Entitled Gatsby, the present will premiere at Harvard College’s American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in keeping with Rolling Stone.
Welch is collaborating with producer Thomas Bartlett, who information music as Doveman. Will probably be directed by Rachel Chavkin whereas Sonya Tayeh shall be liable for the choreography.
“This e book has haunted me for a big a part of my life. It incorporates a few of my favorite traces in literature,” she beforehand mentioned of the brand new undertaking in an announcement in 2021.
“Musicals had been my old flame, and I really feel a deep connection to [F. Scott] Fitzgerald’s damaged romanticism. It’s an honour to have been provided the prospect to recreate this e book in track.”
This isn’t the primary time Welch has labored on a Fitzgerald undertaking. In 2013, she contributed to the soundtrack for Baz Luhrmann’s Nice Gatsby movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio with the observe ‘Over The Love’.
The soundtrack additionally featured Lana Del Rey‘s ‘Younger And Lovely’.
In the meantime, Florence + The Machine will headline this yr’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 Nationwide de Saint-Cloud, Paris between August 23 and August 27.
Different confirmed acts embody Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Foals, Moist Leg, Fever Ray, Turnstile, Angel Olsen, Dry Cleansing and The Homicide Capital. Any remaining tickets could be bought right here.
Final yr’s occasion featured headline performances from the likes of Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala and Nick Cave & The Unhealthy Seeds.
