![]() An entryway leads to a dazzling Art Deco-style ballroom with a large bar, stage and grand staircase where flappers dance, dapper-suited gentlemen drink and fashionable audience members blend in with the cast in a sea of sequins, beads, fedoras and fringe. As the love triangle threatens to tear apart their lives, the glamour of bourgeois living proves to be no more than a guise covering their emptiness.Īdapted and directed by Alexander Wright and presented at the appropriately swanky Park Central Hotel, this “Gatsby” has a humble side entrance next to a Starbucks - more 2020s than 1920s for sure. But Daisy has married the brutish Tom Buchanan, a chauvinist blowhard with a violent temper and a mistress on the side. ![]() Gatsby hopes to woo Nick’s cousin Daisy, with whom he had a love affair that he’s never forgotten. Gatsby’s neighbor, Nick Carraway, narrates Gatsby’s tragic - and, ultimately, fatal - fall from the world of the rich and famous. In Fitzgerald’s classic book, Gatsby is a man who successfully, if shadily, works his way to a fortune, which he spends on a Long Island mansion where he hosts extravagant soirees. Neither does Immersive Everywhere’s “The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show,” a jovial feast for the senses that never, in its lagging two-and-a-half-hour running time, truly rises above the status of a mere attraction. Scott Fitzgerald’s debonair poster boy of American ambition and the nouveau riche never lets the festivities stop. There ain’t no party like a Jay Gatsby party - in “The Great Gatsby,” F. ![]()
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