The Great Gatsby Musical Tickets

The Great Gatsby has exploded onto the West End, fresh from sell-out success on Broadway. Bringing all the glitz and glamour of the Roaring 20s to London, here are the stars misbehaving at the London Coliseum!

Who plays Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby?

Jamie Muscato stars as the enigmatic millionaire Jay Gatsby. Muscato has built a large fan-base while taking on roles like Christian in Moulin Rouge! The Musical, JD in Heathers and Enjolras in Les Misérables.

Who plays Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby?

Frances Mayli McCann takes on the role of Daisy. She’s best known for playing Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde, Heather McNamara in Heathers The Musical and Eponine in Les Misérables.

Who plays Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby?

Corbin Bleu makes his long-awaited West End debut as Nick Carraway. Best known for his role as Chad Danforth in Disney’s High School Musical, his Broadway credits include Kiss Me Kate and In The Heights.

Who plays Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby?

Amber Davies plays the vivacious Jordan Baker. Davies has previously starred as Lorriane Baines in Back to the Future and Vivian Ward in Pretty Woman, but you may also recognise her as the winner of Love Island season 3!

Who plays Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby?

Rachel Tucker plays Myrtle Wilson, following West End credits that include Elphaba in Wicked, Persephone in Hadestown and Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

Who plays George Wilson in The Great Gatsby?

Joel Montague plays George Wilson. Montague’s previous credits include King George III in Hamilton and Amos Hart in Chicago.

Who plays Meyer Wolfsheim in The Great Gatsby?

John Owen-Jones plays the shady Meyer Wolfsheim. Owen-Jones is the youngest actor in West End history to play Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, and has reached nearly 2000 performances as The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera!

Who plays Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby?

Tom Buchanan is played by Jon Robyns. His West End credits include The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera and Jean Valjean in Les Misérables.

Dreamy, decadent, and drenched in drama, The Great Gatsby is the glittering party you don’t want to miss. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel has inspired countless adaptations, and its characters remain some of the most fascinating in literature. Now dazzling on the West End’s London Coliseum stage, the musical brings these Jazz Age icons to life with song, style, and heartbreak. So who’s who behind the champagne and chaos? Let’s break down The Great Gatsby characters.

Rehearsal photos of the West End cast of The Great Gatsby have just dropped, old sport! The hit musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic novel is finally making its way to the London Coliseum this month, with previews kicking off on Friday 11 April. Forgot to RSVP ‘yes’ to the party of the century? Well, you’re in luck, for a limited time only you can save up to 42% on tickets - so why not treat yourself and spend your savings on a bottle of bubbly to celebrate. 

But who will you be meeting at the world's most famous house party? Jamie Muscato (Moulin Rouge! The Musical) steps into the perfectly polished shoes of Jay Gatsby, alongside Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie and Clyde) as Daisy Buchanan. Playing Nick Carraway is Corbin Bleu (High School Musical), and joining them are Amber Davies (Pretty Woman) as Jordan Baker, Joel Montague (Hamilton) as George Wilson, John Owen-Jones (Les Misérables) as Meyer Wolfsheim, Jon Robyns (Phantom of the Opera) as Tom Buchanan, and Rachel Tucker (Wicked) as Myrtle Wilson. It’s safe to say this cast is bringing enough star power to light up the entire town of West Egg.

Producers have green lit the full West End cast of The Great Gatsby Musical, and, much like the host of the party, we’re obsessed.

Based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s epic novel, which celebrates its centenary this year, the story follows the life of Nick Carraway, a young man who becomes entangled in the dazzling world of wealth and excess on Long Island. He grows curious about his enigmatic neighbour, Jay Gatsby, known for hosting extravagant parties. Through his experiences, the novel explores themes of ambition, illusion, and the pursuit of the American Dream.

Joining the previously announced Jamie Muscato (Jay Gatsby) and Frances Mayli McCann (Daisy Buchanan) will be Corbin Bleu (High School Musical) as Nick Carraway, Amber Davis (Back to the Future the Musical) as Jordan Baker, Joel Montague (Hamilton) as George Wilson, Rachel Tucker (Come From Away) as Myrtle Wilson and a pair of former Phantoms, John Owen-Jones as Meyer Wolfsheim and Jon Robyns as Tom Buchanan.

The ensemble features George Crawford (Waitress), Jordan Crouch (Anything Goes), Kiara Dario (Miss Saigon), Frances Dee (Matilda), Aimée Fisher (Waitress), Tom Andrew Hargreaves (Pretty Woman), Alyn Hawke (Come From Away), Ediz Mahmut (Hadestown), Jamel Matthias (Why Am I So Single?), Nevé McGuiness-Dyce (Starlight Express), Rose Ouellette (The Wizard of Oz), Sophie Pourret (Guys and Dolls), William Richardson (Les Misérables) and Lily Wang (Burlesque).

The champagne is chilling, the jazz is swinging, and the invitations have been sent out—The Great Gatsby is making its grand entrance into the West End, old sport! The highly anticipated transfer of the award-winning Broadway musical is set to dazzle London audiences, and with a lead cast like this, it’s already the talk of the town.

It has today been confirmed that Jamie Muscato will lead the charge as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby, alongside Frances Mayli McCann as Daisy Buchanan. And with further star casting to be announced shortly, dust off your finest 1920s attire and prepare for a night of opulence and intrigue!

Proving that a good story never goes out of style, one hundred years after the great American novel was published, the musical adaptation of Jay Gatsby’s exploits will be opening in London’s West End. This centennial celebration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is a testament to the enduring influence of a story that has captivated readers and audiences across generations.

Whether you're a fan of the novel, the visually-stunning films, or want the lowdown on the Broadway transfer, the story of extravagant dreams and doomed love has left its mark on everything from literature to the West End stage. So, grab your flapper dress, pour yourself a glass of champagne (or two), and get ready for 10 great facts about The Great Gatsby, old sport.

The first Great Gatsby stage adaptation premiered 98 years ago (Theatre Fact)

Written by Pulitzer prize winner Owen Davis and directed by George Cukor (who later won the Oscar for My Fair Lady), the one act play opened on Broadway in 1926. Produced less than a year after the book was published, the show ran for 112 performances at the Ambassador Theatre. The play was well-received by critics, and helped F. Scott Fitzgerald (the author of the book) recroup some money from his story. The dramatisation of his novel was far better received than the book, and brought Fritzgerald substantial royalties and fame which catapulted his tale to international audiences. 

The critics didn’t think the book was that Great (Book Fact)

It’s hard to believe, but the book was a critical and commercial flop when it was first published. Ruth Snyder of New York Evening World claimed that The Great Gatsby was proof that ‘Mr. Fitzgerald is not one of the great American writers of today", other newspapers were equally dismissive, with Ralph Coghlan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch branding the work as an ‘inconsequential performance,’ The World simply called it ‘a dud’ and John McClure of The Times-Picayune declaring that the novel was ‘painfully forced and implausible’ 

By October 1925, the book had sold fewer than 20,000 copies making Fitzgerald $2,000 (the equivalent of $36,075 today). To put that into context, Richard Osman signed a £1.1 million book deal for his debut book, The Thursday Murder Club! Compared to his previous works, This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned, It was his worst received book, and resulted in him signing off a letter to his editor with ‘Yours in great depression". 

Like the 2013 Baz Luhrmann film? You have an ipod to thank (Film Fact)

Luhrmann first decided to adapt Fitzgerald's novel after listening to an audiobook version during an extended train trip to Mongolia in 2004. "I had two bottles of red wine and the new iPod with two recorded books. When it [The Great Gatsby] ended, I had inconsolable melancholia. I was like, 'Can we do all that again?'" 

And he did. As soon as Luhrmann left the train he was on the phone to the producers at Sony to get the film adaptation greenlit. A mere nine years later the film was out in cinemas, and picked up two Oscars at the Academy awards. 

The Great Gatsby’s newest home is the shows oldest venue (Theatre Fact)

The first adaptation of the show opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in 1927, 6 years after the theatre had its grand opening. The London Coliseum, the home of next year's West End transfer, opened in 1904 - 17 years before the original broadway home. The London Coliseum may be old, but it is full of firsts. 

It was the first theatre in England to have a triple revolving stage made up of three concentric rings. The revolve cost £70,000 to build at the time, equivalent to roughly £10 million today (Jay Gatsby would be proud)! It was also the first theatre in Europe to have lifts, and it still has the widest proscenium arch in London!

It wasn’t going to be set in the roaring 20s (Book Fact)

The Great Gatsby is synonymous with jazz, flapper dresses, cocktail glasses and excess, but F. Scott Fitzgerald hadn’t originally intended to set The Great Gatsby in the roaring 20s. 

The author’s first drafts of the book had the action set between the Midwest and New York in 1885. There was also a strong ‘catholic element’ in the early versions of the book, which made way for more salacious themes. 

The West End’s longest running immersive theatrical production The Great Gatsby has just announced its new cast! The unique experience led by Olivier Award-winning producers Louis Hartshorn and Brian Hook is now playing at Gatsby’s Mansion within Immersive|LDN in Mayfair. Tickets for The Great Gatsby are currently booking until 30 October 2022.