The Great Gatsby on stage...three times!

Elevator Repair Service's Gatz

Woah. It has been reported that a total of 3 stage adaptations of F. Scott. Fitzgerald's 1925 classic The Great Gatsby will make it to London in 2012... that's a lot of Gatsby. Even more Gatsby if you stop to hear that one of these adaptations is set to be a staggering eight hours long!

The first to hit the stage is Peter Joucla's adaptation, The Great Gatsby at Wilton's Music Hall in East London. It has been described as an 'immersive' adaptation. The audience are asked to dress up for the occasion in 1920s attire and should 'expect late night foxtrots, moonshine in teapots, pearls and flappers, bootleggers and millionaires.' It sounds like great fun and I'm definitely going to get myself a ticket.It will run Thursday 26th April until Saturday 19th May. Buy your tickets here.

Then the 8-hour play, Gatz, created by the New York based Elevator Repair Service, will be performed in New York's The Public Theater in May and London's Noel Coward Theatre in June. The reason it is so long is that the cast will read every single line from the original novel!

Buy your tickets here.

And then perhaps the most obscure format for what is a famously tragic story, is "The Great Gatsby" musical. Joe Evans has put together music and lyrics for the production, which will open at the King's Head Theatre in August. Oddly, this is not the first attempt at a musical either! Ben West's musical adaptation showed last year as a part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival and John Harbison wrote an opera in 1999.

It will run 7th August to 1st September. Tickets are available here.

That's all for the stage productions, but let's not forget Baz Luhrmann's long awaited film adaptation that will star Leonardo Di Caprio in the title role, Carey Mulligan as Daisy and Toby Maguire as Tom. Being an iconic novel, it's not the first film adaptation either. A total of 6 precede it!

I suspect that's enough for you to be getting on with, though...