NEW YORK - Florence Welch is ditching the machine for musicals. The Grammy-nominated leader of Florence + The Machine is supplying the lyrics and co-writing music for a stage musical adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” it was announced Wednesday. “This book has haunted me for a large part of my life,” Welch said in a statement. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. “Taboo,” Boy George’s foray into the world of musicals, went fine in London but not in New York.

Source: thestar April 28, 2021 13:30 UTC