The Great Gatsby party is still raging on the West End

Even for a novel as consistently alive as The Great Gatsby, it’s been a big year for Fitzgerald’s classic. 2025 marks its 100th year, and there’s been a rush of new biographies and reissues and articles, and of course a London stage musical has been a triumph on the West End, a dazzling spectacle at the Coliseum which captures the Jazz Age-set story as a timeless tale of romance, money and the human yearning for something just out of reach.

The show is approaching the wee small hours of its run, but there’s still life in the party yet, with two of the leads – musical hot property Jamie Muscato who plays Gatsby and Corbin Bleu who plays Nick Carraway here after huge acclaim doing the same on Broadway – were in fine fettle when the Standard caught up with them. You can really only catch actors briefly when they’re deep – way deep – into a relentless run like this, Bleu on the go across the theatre in between rehearsals and Jamie nipping out to a coffee shop to get in his iced latte.