Name: The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show
Start: 2023-06-06
End: 2023-08-27
Location: The Gatsby Mansion

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The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show - NYC

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The Roaring Twenties (of this century) didn’t exactly get off to the party-hearty start some of us may have hoped, unlike its 1920s predecessor as we remember it now. Of course, you can’t repeat the past — or, so Nick Carraway insists in *The Great Gatsby*. “Of course you can,” Gatsby counters.

Turns out Gatsby’s right. At the Park Central Hotel, where [*The Great Gatsby - The Immersive Show*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/28710-the-great-gatsby-tickets) has landed stateside after a record-breaking U.K. run, the alluring, pulsing glamour of the ‘20s is alive in full glory.

Production company Immersive Everywhere has transformed a wing of the hotel into the Gatsby Mansion, where we, the audience, are guests at one of Gatsby’s legendary parties. So are all the characters from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, and among them — and us — the classic story unfolds.

It doesn’t do so in the same linear fashion of the book, of course. We do begin in the same way, with Nick Carraway as narrator, introducing us to the fated title billionaire and his longtime love for the beautiful (and married) socialite Daisy Buchanan. After the opening scene in the main ballroom, which ends in a full-company (and audience-encouraged) Charleston dance, the party breaks up and different groups follow various characters into other rooms.

Unlike at a show like *Sleep No More* (arguably NYC's best-known immersive offering), where audiences are left to explore the venues and follow characters as they choose, *Gatsby* is more structured: You'll change locations when and where a character corrals you and others standing nearby. This setup makes *Gatsby* perfect for first-time immersive theatregoers, who might not otherwise know where to go or what to do. The downside is that you might not get to spend much time with the characters most interesting to you.

Regardless of where you go, you won't experience every room or scene in one go, making *Gatsby* ripe for repeat attendance. I, for one, spent most of the first act with Nick, Tom Buchanan (Daisy's pompous, cheating husband), and Myrtle Wilson (Tom's social-climbing mistress) in Tom's quarters, partaking in a loose recreation of the book's scene where he hits Myrtle for flippantly discussing Daisy.

I later detoured to the gambling table of the corrupt Meyer Wolfsheim (a minor character in the novel, who here gets upgraded to a principal role complete with a multi-instrument-and-tap-dance number at the top of Act 2), where we guests aided him and parlor performer Kitty in writing a love song for Daisy.

It is worth noting here that *Gatsby* is truly both immersive and interactive — you're not just in the world, watching the characters around you, but they're actively engaging with you throughout. Besides dancing with them during the aforementioned Charleston (the first of multiple dance breaks), you might supply Nick with a pickup line to use on sophisticated golfer Jordan Baker, take a photo with Jordan (as I did), or be enlisted by Gatsby himself as his personal assistant while he fretfully prepares to host Daisy for tea (as my +1 did).

As such, guests are encouraged to dress to theme (or at least dress up), and you run the risk of Gatsby remarking on it if you don't: "Most of you are dressed impeccably," he observes as he's perfecting his tea setup, then quips: "Please stand in front of someone who is not."

The small-group breakouts are less directly plucked from Fitzgerald's plot and more inspired by his world, and they make *Gatsby* stand out in the sense that they go beyond the novel and create a unique experience of the story. But stay in and around the ballroom if you want to watch the novel's key scenes play out.

You'll only get the broad strokes of the plot no matter what, but such is the nature of this kind of adaptation. (Not every *Gatsby* theatrical work can be *Gatz*, a 6-8-hour long staging of Fitzgerald's unabridged text.) That's not to say director Alexander Wright's adapted text is entirely banal — for example, the placement of Daisy and Gatsby's first tryst and Myrtle's fight with her desperate, possessive husband, George, illuminated a parallel between the two women I'd never considered in my many previous encounters with the story. Both women are caught between a loveless marriage and a troubled affair, and neither option will bring her real happiness.

The elusiveness of love and of the American Dream are the novel's most prescient, somber themes, and all the characters ultimately feel them. Those themes are still baked into this *Gatsby*, but the true draw is the party, to get swept up in a bygone era at its most lavish, liquored, and loose-limbed.

Does that mean this *Gatsby* entirely honors its source material? Perhaps not. But in the novel, Gatsby's countless houseguests are only interested in him when a party's going on, barely caring when he dies. Here, Gatsby's death happens with little fanfare, and shortly afterwards, the show ends and the audience is invited to stay and drink and dance the night away. Noting that parallel shouldn't spoil your enjoyment of this truly vivacious show, but it is a reminder that, again, we can repeat the past. And we do.

[*The Great Gatsby — The Immersive Show* is at the Gatsby Mansion in the Park Central Hotel New York. Get *The Great Gatsby — The Immersive Show* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/28710-the-great-gatsby-tickets)

*Photo credit: Jillian Anne Abaya, Shahzeb Hussain, Charlie Marcus, Keivon Akbari, Rob Brinkmann, Stephanie Rocío, and Mya Rosado-Tran in The Great Gatsby. (Photo by Joan Marcus)*

'The Great Gatsby — The Immersive Show' review — the 1920s are roaring again, old sport

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Read our four-star review of *The Great Gatsby — The Immersive Show*, now in performances at the bespoke Gatsby Mansion in the Park Central Hotel New York.

The Gatsby Mansion

Step back into the Roaring Twenties in this immersive production of *The Great Gatsby*, coming to America from a hit run in London. Get *The Great Gatsby* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

*The Great Gatsby* play invites audiences to be guests at one of Jay Gatsby's lavish parties. A portion of the Park Central Hotel New York has been converted into Gatsby's Mansion, where attendees are greeted by jazz, liquor, excitement, and excess in every form. Within the room are the characters from F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel — the rich and beautiful Daisy Buchanan, her husband Tom, wry narrator Nick Carraway, and of course, Gatsby himself.

Audiences watch scenes from *The Great Gatsby* unfold and can even interact with the characters in groups or one-on-one in various spaces. Attendees may just observe if they do not wish to interact; they are also encouraged, but not required, to wear 1920s-inspired attire.

Before this immersive *The Great Gatsby* came to New York, adapter/director Alexander Wright co-conceived the show with Brian Hook while running a pub in London. The show went on to run for seven years in London, making it the longest running immersive production there. *The Great Gatsby* has since been translated into two other languages and been performed in Ireland, South Korea, and Belgium, showing the worldwide appeal of Fitzgerald's story.

Fitzgerald first published *The Great Gatsby* in 1925, about a mysterious billionaire who, pining for the unavailable Daisy, throws his riches around in the hopes of winning her love. The book has since become a classic, earning the title of a Great American Novel and continuing to be ever-present in classrooms and in pop culture.

Most notably, *The Great Gatsby* received a 2013 film adaptation starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Fitzgerald's story has also appeared on stage multiple times before this iteration of *The Great Gatsby* off Broadway. The first stage adaptation was a 1926 Broadway play by Owen Davis; more recently, theatre company Elevator Repair Service created an eight-hour dramatization of the entire novel, *Gatz*, that received widespread acclaim.

Get *The Great Gatsby* theatre tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

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Get tickets to The Great Gatsby from the official New York Theatre Guide. Party at Gatsby's mansion in this hit immersive adaptation of the classic novel.

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Welcome to Gatsby Mansion, old sport! Enter the Roaring Twenties at this immersive adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel, where everyone is a guest at one of Jay Gatsby's lavish bashes. Jazz, liquor, and revelry abound as the title billionaire tries to woo his lost love, Daisy — and audiences join in on the gossip and the action. Learn more about tickets and get ready to party.

*The Great Gatsby* is created and directed by Alexander Wright, who co-conceived the idea with producer Brian Hook. The theatre company Immersive Everywhere, which Hook co-founded,  first produced *The Great Gatsby* in 2016.

The show has since received French and Flemish translations and premiered in South Korea, Ireland, and Belgium before coming off Broadway.

This success is due in no small part to the staying power of the original *The Great Gatsby* novel. It was a modest success in Fitzgerald's time, but it surged in popularity following his death. Now, many consider *The Great Gatsby* Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a Great American Novel.

The novel is narrated by Nick Carraway, who befriends mysterious billionaire Jay Gatsby and gets entangled in Gatsby's quest to win back his former love, Daisy Buchanan. Along the way, he also meets multiple people from Gatsby and Daisy's high-society world, including her husband Tom Buchanan, tennis star Jordan Baker, and Tom's mistress, Myrtle Wilson. All these characters and more appear in *The Great Gatsby* in New York.

## What to Watch For

- Attendees are encouraged, but not required, to wear 1920s-themed clothing.
- *The Great Gatsby* novel came out in 1925. Think of this show as an early 100th-anniversary celebration!
- Wright and Hook came up with the idea for the *Gatsby* show in 2015 while running a pub called The Fleeting Arms.
- Two new *The Great Gatsby* musicals are also in the works: one from the composers of *Paradise Square*, premiering in 2023; and one with music by Florence Welch (of Florence + the Machine) and Grammy nominee Thomas Bartlett in 2024. It is the Twenties, after all — no wonder Gatsby's so popular!

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Step back into the Roaring Twenties, old sport, at this immersive theatrical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel. Party like it's 1920 alongside Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and more at the Park Central Hotel, transformed into Gatsby Mansion.

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