The copyright to F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age novel expired at the end of 2020, meaning anyone is now allowed to adapt it into a film, make it into an opera or stage a Broadway musical without permission from the estate.
“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said
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“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.”
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