The Great Gatsby - The Musical

by Claus Martin / based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In the sweltering summer of the early 1920s, young Nick Carraway heads to New York to work as a securities trader on Wall Street. He rents a small house on Long Island, where his neighbour turns out to be a mysterious man famous for throwing the most legendary parties in the city: Jay Gatsby. Nick soon moves in these circles himself - tasked with helping Gatsby rekindle his connection with Daisy, Nick's cousin and Gatsby's great love from his youth. By now, however, Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy Midwestern millionaire. The plan succeeds thanks to Daisy's close friend Jordan Baker. Even though Tom is cheating on his wife, he will stop at nothing to prevent Daisy from choosing the inscrutable Gatsby. After a confrontation between the two men, a fateful accident reshuffles everything.

©Volker Beinhorn