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- Gatsby’s Mansion and others of the Great Gatsby Era
- Inside a $25M NYC Penthouse with a Private Yoga Studio
- The Great Gatsby review: A glitzy take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel that values spectacle over substance
- 'Challengers' Heats Up: How Zendaya's Star Power and a Sexy Love Triangle Could Give Gen Z Its Next Movie Obsession
- Inside a $7.1M Miami Beach 2-Story Penthouse
Opulence was key in creating the world of Gatsby, the classic story of a mysterious millionaire who pines for his now married ex and explores themes of social class and wealth in Prohibition-era America. The title has spawned numerous adaptations, including the 1974 film starring Robert Redford and the 2013 Baz Luhrmann movie with Leonardo DiCaprio as its titular character. DePoo was so enamored at the thought of bringing Jay Gatsby’s elaborate world to the stage, he started working on its design before he was even offered the job. By missing some crucial nuances of the novel, this musical risks becoming yet another adaptation of an existing, popular novel/film, of which there have been many this season (“Back to the Future,” “The Outsiders,” “The Notebook,” “Water for Elephants”). Like “Gatsby,” all of these include a cross-class romance where a poor boy falls for a rich girl, and in several instances his letters get waylaid. Weirdly enough, quite a few musicals this season even heavily feature cars onstage (“Back to the Future,” “The Outsiders,” “Lempicka,” and now “Gatsby”).
Gatsby’s Mansion and others of the Great Gatsby Era
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Inside a $25M NYC Penthouse with a Private Yoga Studio
“I went home, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, now what? Now make it happen.’” That includes the pivotal pool in Gatsby’s mansion, where (spoiler alert for those not familiar with the 1925 novel and its successors) the multi-millionaire falls into after being fatally shot. Jeremy Jordan and Eva Noblezada star as ill-fated lovers Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan, roles they originated when the musical premiered last year in New Jersey.
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The Great Gatsby review: A glitzy take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel that values spectacle over substance
At water level, too, they look the same, with each plot of land cascading gently downward into stockpiles of rocks. Great Neck has a greater number of ethnicities and newly built homes. Manhasset is only slightly wealthier, but it is much more traditional in the privatized way that often accompanies circles with longstanding histories and inheritances; according to the 2010 census, nearly half of its homes were built before 1939. Both are home to the 1 percent, but Manhasset has been so longer. Citizen Kane’s Xanadu fell into disrepair before it was ever finished. Even Eloise’s quarters at the Plaza Hotel have recently been relocated to Brooklyn.
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West Egg which was the location of Gatsby's mansion would have been Great Neck, which is the next town west, where Fitzgerald actually lived. Great Neck at the time while having many estates and mansions of it's own, but most not of the scale of Sands Point, attracted many celebrated people from Broadway and the arts. Getting back to the Gatsby mansion and Buchanan mansion, both houses face east looking towards the shore of Glen Cove. In the book, Gatsby's mansion would have been on the eastern shore of Great Neck looking across at the western shore of Sands Point, where Daisy's mansion would have been.
The parties are undeniably flashy, bordering on overstimulating to the senses. An ensemble two or three times the size (easy for film, impossible for Broadway) would’ve filled out the stage more effectively; that said, Dominique Kelley’s lively choreography mostly covers this up. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby,” which captured the roaring twenties with shocking clarity, is a staple of high school curricula and has been immortalized in two famous film adaptations (in 1974 by Richard Clayton and in 2013 by Baz Lurhman). It’s most remembered for the titular character’s lavish parties, though as any good reader of the novel will tell you, the party’s are all razzle dazzle — what really matters is what’s underneath. The pain, the social climbing, the lack of ethics, and the post-war, orgiastic egoism are what the work is really about. Book writer Kait Kerrigan has taken some admirably ambitious swings in adapting material that has defeated many would-be adapters before her.
Later, when the rain forces Gatsby’s drunken party guests to dash indoors and continue dancing, the elaborate space they tumble into appears to be Rosecliff’s distinctive ballroom. It is, according to the Preservation Society of Newport County, the largest ballroom in the summer enclave. (I imagined the Preservation Society cringing when the dripping-wet dog races across the parquet floor, but I suppose this is one of the sacrifices one makes for art.) That part is near the end of this video clip. After finishing the book I did what I usually do when I want more, which is to say I watched the movie. I’ve heard Baz Luhrmann will be delivering a remake with Leonard DiCaprio as Gatsby soon.
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To the likely dismay of your high school English teacher, any critique of material excess, social disparities or the American Dream that has made the book a classroom staple gets stripped here in deference to a swoony and ill-fated love story. This isn’t a high-society tragedy set against the dawn of modernity but a rom-com that nose-dives into overwrought melodrama. Part of the issue, both lyrically and in the book, comes from intermittent quotations from the novel.
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Here, Bruni and his designers lean into the roaring garishness almost to the point of cartoon. Linda Cho’s costumes for the ensemble — all Technicolor sequins and swishy, modern prom-dress fabrics — look like what would happen if you took the prepackaged flapper getups at Party City and injected lots of money. And Paul Tate dePoo III’s set and projections are a Deco-meets-digital monstrosity.
A popular architect of the time, Thomas Hastings, liked to preach that houses are half pudding and half sauce, i.e. half about the abode itself and half about all the accompanying accessories. To name a sampling of all that his grounds included, there were two farms, a blacksmith, an auto repair shop, guesthouses, Turkish baths, shooting galleries, and a casino (because, when you have 648 acres to fill, why not?). As for the house itself, it was modeled primarily after the French Château de Maisons-Laffitte but also drew upon a couple of Hôtels de Ville. His pudding, that is, was the same as Gatsby’s—just a larger serving. The 14,551-square-foot colonial-style mansion sits on a massive 7.7-acre lot, and features 13 bedrooms and 35 bathrooms.
Scott Fitzgerald’s inspiration for the town of West Egg. It’s not that the rest of the cast isn’t showing up. They’re just all in a vapid musical-shaped-musical while Zdrojeski is in The Great Gatsby. When it falls apart, it does so because of Nick’s clear moral repulsion. How fitting that we should remain obsessed with the glamour of his great book; how perfect that we should still avoid encountering its grieving, ambivalent soul.
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