'The Great Gatsby' musical to transfer to the London Coliseum

The new musical opened at The Broadway Theatre in April 2024, following a world premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in late 2023.

Pop the champagne because The Great Gatsby is coming to the West End! The new Tony Award-winning musical, which opened on Broadway in April 2024, will arrive at the London Coliseum on 11 April 2025, running until 7 September.

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby follows mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, who hosts decadent parties but pines for his former flame Daisy Buchanan. The novel was adapted for the screen in 2013 by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, and Carey Mulligan, among others.

The new musical, which has music and lyrics by Jason Howland (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Little Women) and Nathan Tysen (Paradise Square), and a book by Kait Kerrigan (The Mad Ones), opened at The Broadway Theatre in April 2024, following a world premiere at Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey in late 2023.

Chunsoo Shin, lead producer of The Great Gatsby musical, said, “I am thrilled to bring this timeless, glamourous, and resplendent production to the UK’s West End, after such success in the US and on Broadway. The London Coliseum is a spectacular venue that complements the lavish aesthetic and vibrant energy of our show. With its grand architecture and historic charm, it offers the perfect setting to transport audiences back to the opulence of the 1920s.”

The rest of the creative team includes director Marc Bruni (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) with choreography by Dominique Kelley (So You Think You Can Dance), costume design by Linda Cho (Anastasia, A Gentleman’s Guide...), set and projection design by Paul Tate de Poo III (Spamalot, Tommy at The Kennedy Center), lighting design by Cory Pattak (Spamalot), sound design by Brian Ronan (Beautiful, The Book of Mormon), and hair and wig design by Charles G. LaPointe (The Cher Show, Spongebob Squarepants) and Rachael Geier. Arrangements are by Jason Howland, orchestrations are by Jason Howland and Kim Scharnberg (Jekyll & Hyde), and the music producer is Grammy Award winner Billy Jay Stein for Strike Audio (Beautiful – cast album).

Casting is yet to be announced.

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Photo credit: The cast of The Great Gatsby on Broadway. (Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)