Productions3 on Broadway
| 1926 | Ambassador Theatre Original. February 2, 1926 · George Cukor · predates this show | 112 performances |
| 2024 | Broadway Theatre Revival. April 25, 2024 · Marc Bruni | |
| 2025 | Transfer Theatre not recorded. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. 1 of these predate the show itself and are almost certainly a different work of the same name. Shown, marked, not merged. West End runs are not yet held.
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International The Great Gatsby matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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In the literature6 passages
Merrick did not exude confidence in the show, sensing that Gower and Jerry and Mike wouldn't be able to turn M & M around. Not only did he sense it, he told the press. “Sure, they did it with Dolly!, but I can think of other shows where they did not.” Fixed up (?) and polished, Mack moved into the Kennedy Center for it… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p587
In 1969 she was presented the Maharam Award for her designs for Peer Gynt. Miss Aldredge has also designed several films, most notably The Great Gatsby for which she received an book:the-broadway-design-roster-designers-and-their-credits-owen-bobbi-bibliographies#p25
Merrick was involved in producing a movie at the time— The Great Gatsby, starring Mia Farrow and Robert Redford—and wasn’t focused on Mack & Mabel. book:razzle-dazzle-the-battle-for-broadway-michael-riedel-2015-simon-schuster-limited#p214
Merrick’s Midas touch did not translate to Hollywood, where he produced four pictures between 1972 and ’80, the most notable being the much-ballyhooed The Great Gatsby , toplining Robert Redford and Mia Farrow, a costly flop. book:broadway-babylon-boze-hadleigh#p282
Merrick, that summer, was back and forth between New York and Hollywood, where he was trying to wedge himself into the film industry with a big budget film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. book:offstage-observations-inside-tales-of-the-steven-suskin-theodore-s-chapin-rowman#p99
Merrick had already begun hatching what was to be his biggest film venture, the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby starring Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. book:offstage-observations-inside-tales-of-the-steven-suskin-theodore-s-chapin-rowman#p137
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