A glitzy Gatsby
6 / 10
But the musical flattens the story’s ironies and paradoxes into a standard-issue tragic romance, one that doesn’t do justice to either Jay or Daisy, despite charismatic performances from Jake David Smith and Senzel Ahmady, respectively. The songs, oddly lacking in period influences, have a certain kind of sameness to them, and though the costumes by Linda Cho and the scenic and projection design by Paul Tate dePoo III burst with glamour and color, it all feels overproduced—like a Roaring Twenties theme party crossed with a Las Vegas extravaganza.
