| NYT review of Gatsby | |
| Posted by: AnObserver 07:49 pm EDT 04/29/24 | |
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| I have just read the review of the Bway musical version of The Great Gatsby - the review written by a female. She says the book writer (of the musical) has taken care to "deepen" Daisy and Jordan "with their talk of the limitations of life for women." This sounds like it's new dialogue - not Fitzgerald's - and could fit in with the newly woke preachiness of Broadway. And unnecessary, because Fitzgerald got it so succinctly, and without preaching, when he has Daisy say of her daughter Pammy, "All right...I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." Not only does she sum it up (for 1922) but her bitterness and cynicism are there. So what's to "deepen?" Francis Ford Coppola also used the famous line in his script for the 1974 movie that has so many good things in it (Redford is not one of them) including a small appearance by Regina Baff who was a big thing in the NY theatre world at the time. You can also spot Brooke Adams. It was my intro to Sam Waterston. An opera version of The Great Gatsby might be a better project than a Bway musical. See link. |
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| Link | https://thegreatgatsby.fandom.com/wiki/Pammy_Buchanan |
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