Following our announcement a few months ago that Florence Welch is working on a musical score, it was announced today that it would be The Great Gatsby.

The music score, co-written and composed with Martyna Majok and Thomas Bartlett (AKA Doveman who has worked on other songs with Florence including ‘Hunger’, ‘The End of Love’, ‘Big God’ and ‘Jenny of Oldstones’) will premiere on Broadway.

Speaking in a statement, Florence says:

This book has haunted me for a large part of my life. It contains some of my favourite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism. It is an honour to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song.

More details to follow.