When does the carnage end.,..really...great gatsby the musical? No one really likes that book. People pretend to but no one does. I really hope one of the characters is the big bilboard with the orange eyes..
1. I know that I don't like it. 2. I actually COULD see it working, however. The characters are so excessive that I think it would make sense for them to sing and dance. 3. Doesn't mean I'd want to see it.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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Someone once told me I couldn't possibly like "Moby Dick" as much as I claimed because no one likes "Moby Dick." And now no one likes "Gatsby"?
I feel the opposite -- people pretend to like WICKED and "Glee" and the "Harry Potter" and Lady Gaga, but no one really does. I mean, how could they? Honestly? It just doesn't seem possible.
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The Great Gatsby... no one likes it???? Regardless, it's one of the most read books in America I'm sure!
Speaking of F. Scott Fitzgerald, looks like the Frank Wildhorn musical "ZELDA" (AKA Waiting for the Moon) based off the lives of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald is getting it's (long awaited) second production in 2012!
I could imagine it singing, but given that no one's ever even made an adequate non-musical adaptation of it makes me think it may be a trickier proposition in practice than it may seem in theory.
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"I feel the opposite -- people pretend to like WICKED and "Glee" and the "Harry Potter" and Lady Gaga, but no one really does. I mean, how could they? Honestly? It just doesn't seem possible."
i am pretty sure I could explain how a bunch of novels are magnanimous. Les miserables, the fountainhead, Lolita, War and Peace, Catcher in the Rye, American Psycho..I can go on if you like..
and the reason why tons of americans read it is because in most high schools its required reading..If it weren;t i would imagine no one would really care. Like the book "a separate peace" no one would pick that book out of a book store to say "sweet God I have to read this". Les Miserables on the other hand...
i find Gatsby one of those novels that pseudo-intellectuals like to pour over at coffee shops in the east village. "the amazing subtextual nature and difference between East Egg and west egg shows the difference in the economic climate of the day, which is also analagous to the nazi's and the brits in the upcoming war" Ugh spare me. Its a trite book in my opinion. Let's leave it at that.
"I feel the opposite -- people pretend to like WICKED and "Glee" and the "Harry Potter" and Lady Gaga, but no one really does. I mean, how could they? Honestly? It just doesn't seem possible."
Are you trolling or are you just exceedingly ignorant?
"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."
I think a Gatsby musical that is a traditional book musical might not work, but an "expressionistic" musical in the Spring Awakening or Threepenny Opera style, where the songs express mood, tone and idea more than move the action and carry the story, especially with abstracted lyrics and images, might work really well.
I'm picturing a Gatsby interspersed with the music of David Bowie- the sort of bored, decadent excess that the book thrives on.
It is on the reading list for our AP English students -- and while I can't speak for all of them, MANY of them DO like it.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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I am exceedingly ignorant. My apologies. I thought that had already been made clear.
Yes, massofmen, let's leave it at that.
I was considering asking you, also, how exactly "pseudo-intellectuals...pour over" it at coffee shops, as you're clearly into definition bending, but it's probably best we leave it at that.
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"It is on the reading list for our AP English students -- and while I can't speak for all of them, MANY of them DO like it."
I'm an AP English student I love The Great Gatsby. I'm grateful for the AP reading list because it has brought so many books into my life that I would have never thought to read otherwise.
"I will not cease from mental fight, nor shall my sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land."
you can musicalize anything as we have come to know and learn. I just think its a boring story that people like to pretend they like because it makes them look semi-intelligent in a world of "jersey shore" lovers.
to each his own. I think it stinks. Its my opinion.
I disliked most of the books I was required to read in high school, but Gatsby was one I really enjoyed and have re-read several times. I would love to see what Adam Guettel (another oft-derided artist that "pseudo-intellectuals" like myself are drawn to) could do with it.