Broadway Thursdays Films: The Great Gatsby (2013)

Join us for the return of our Broadway Thursdays: Segerstrom Center at The Frida series, showcasing films that inspired upcoming stage adaptations at OC’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts.  We’re getting real glam with the third film in our Broadway Thursdays: Segerstrom Center at The Frida series as we screen Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gasby.

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby (Leonardo Dicaprio). Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby’s nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

Overflowing with lavish production design and a bold modern soundtrack the way only Baz can do, The Great Gatsby embraces spectacle in a way few literary adaptations ever attempt.