I will agree the dramaturgy here is a problem. AS I said elsewhere: Making a comment by Daisy in Chapter One (Page 17 of my copy) into the 11 o'clock number throws the show out of balance--especially since it is call The Great Gatsby, not "Daisy" or even "Daisy and Gatsby."
The moral arc of the book goes from "Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn." to "Gatsby turned out all right at the end." Granted they are both in Chapter One, but they offer a path of how to structure the show.
If they creators wanted to make this Daisy and Jordan's show, great, but they should have gone all in, redid it and changed the name. (That didn't hurt &Juliet.)
All this said, the best thing about the novel is the narrative prose. A complete reading of it was great at Symphony Space, but I doubt that will ever fly on Broadway. |
