Michael Barnes — Theater Critic

This musical’s script by Kait Kerrigan and lyrics by Nathan Tysen don’t stray too far from the 1925 book, but they dramatize things that go untold in Fitzgerald’s more nuanced novel. What the writers and the director, Marc Bruni, accomplish, however, is a sustained sense of impending doom that faces all these characters. At times, they brush up against the fatalism that underlies Fitzgerald’s picture of American classes in brutal contact.

This musical’s script by Kait Kerrigan and lyrics by Nathan Tysen don’t stray too far from the 1925 book, but they dramatize things that go untold in Fitzgerald’s more nuanced novel. What the writers and the director, Marc Bruni, accomplish, however, is a sustained sense of impending doom that faces all these characters. At times, they brush up against the fatalism that underlies Fitzgerald’s picture of American classes in brutal contact.