By Katrina Nattress
Apr 28, 2021
Florence Welch will soon be able to add musical writer to her resumé. On Wednesday (April 28), a musical stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic 1925 novel
The Great Gatsby was announced, and the
Florence + The Machine singer is slated to pen the lyrics and co-write the music.
“This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said in a statement. “It contains some of my favorite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honor to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.”