#Jay gatsby

[i-politely-disagree]

^^^THIS^^^

So I love The Great Gatsby book like so much I've read it too many times

The Musical isn't a great (haha) representation of The story book, characters etc. BUT it captures the essence of the era, the actors do freaking amazing with what they have, the songs are great and its FUN.

I love seeing how the people who made the musical interpret it and yes, it annoys me that they stray from the plot and change it up 93% of the time, BUT IT'S FUN.

If you had an idea of how it should be and raged when it wasn't the perfect image, then maybe read the book again.

HAVE FUN with the musical because fun is what it's meant to be. and appreciate jeremy jordan saying old sport.

Is the Gatsby musical an accurate retelling of the original novel? No.

Does it romanticize the fuck out of Gatsby and Daisy? Yes.

Is the idea of the green light being a metaphor for romantic love entirely missing the point? Yes.

Is it a really, really fun time with gorgeous music, beautiful visuals, and a wildly talented cast? You're goddamn right

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

realistically a modern Plaza meltdown would be Tom screaming at Jay “SO ARE YOU GAY OR ARE YOU BANGING MY WIFE WHICH IS IT” while daisy considers coming out as bisexual just to confuse him into shutting up for a second

[emmaspersonaldiary]

Can someone tell me if this is real

[onlyteathings]

hhheyyy so funny thing is when i saw gatsby, during past is catching up to me, jeremy forgot his suit jacket so he just sang it in the white shirt with the suspenders and a bow tie. it was cute i’ll admit

[skulls-and-wishbones]

Everytime someone draws jay gatsby as a blonde an angel dies

[vessels-for-good-intent]

@more-than-tender-curiosity @vehiculartheyslaughter @yourlocalfriendlyhybird6

Kathryn Smith, "Tree of Life," Self-Portrait with Cephalopod

[linnytheseagull]

More classic literature YouTubers because it's so funny to me

Bonus content:

[nation-wide-is-bi-your-side]

gay people will say anything but i love you. the fuck do you mean “they’re a rotten crowd. you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”

[lt-sparrow]

came to me in a dream

[vulprits]

something something that night he told me everything

[im-here-homie]

Green light? What green light?

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

Wilson: You know I have two bullets left in this gun, I should probably get rid of them

The Humble Target:

[iamnotshazam]

there is something deeply wrong with nick carraway in gatsby. motherfucker has been disassocating probably since the end of the war. he watches a marriage almost implode in front of him and in the stunned silence afterwards tells the awful husband, "oh yeah i just remembered today's my birthday"

i dont think casual and high school level discussions focus on how deeply weird nick must be in person and how that affects scenes? i vaguely remember analyses usually focusing on daisy and tom and gatsby but they all use nick as a barely functioning soundboard for horrible behavior and when he doesn't say anything are probably thinking "well nick seems so chill he would stop me if this was Truly Weird" and nick is meanwhile staring off into the distance thinking about what he ate last tuesday and that green eyed bilboard

edit: right and the accident literally happens next page so the weirdness of nick is probably skipped over by most readers

[watchingwhathappens]

"old sport" is a pet name.

[ya-what--ya-erster]

Every character ever played by Jeremy Jordan is bisexual unless it is very clearly and explicitly stated otherwise. Just so you know.

[teenytinysandwiches]

The Great Gatsby lyrics explained.