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.”
Florence Welch and The Great Gatsby
Rock star Florence Welch (Florence + The Machine), Thomas Bartlett, and Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok are collaborating on a musical stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, which entered the public domain earlier this year
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Welch said in a statement, âThis book has haunted me for a large part of my life. It contains some of my favorite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgeraldâs broken romanticism. It is an honor to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.â
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic
The Great Gatsby entered the public domain at the start of this year, and it didn’t take long before news came out about multiple planned adaptations, including a TV series and an animated movie. But the adaptations don’t stop there: a
The Great Gatsby musical is also in the works, and today, word came out that
Florence Welch, the rock star singer of Florence + The Machine, is writing the lyrics and co-writing the music for the new stage show.
The official title of this production appears to be
The Great Gatsby, A New Musical (yes, with a comma instead of a colon), and a “timeline for a pre-Broadway engagement” is expected to be announced soon. Grammy nominated artist Florence Welch is writing the lyrics for the show and cooking up the music with fellow Grammy nominee Thomas Bartlett, a producer who you may know by his alias, “Doveman.” Welch is known for songs like “Dog Days Are Over,” “Spectrum (Say My Name),” a