Observer Editor
“Gatz”: Elevator Repair Service (University Musical Society)
Mar. 27–29. This New York City–based theater company brings its extraordinary, award-winning, verbatim staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to Ann Arbor. When an employee finds a copy of Gatsby in the shabby office of a mysterious small business and begins to read it out loud, his coworkers slowly become drawn in as the great novel’s characters. Over a single 6.5-hour production (plus dinner and breaks), the entire text of the novel is brought to life in a production that’s been lauded around the world. The staging “beautifully captures the elegiac tone of the book with its sense of the dissolving, essentially agrarian American Dream,” according to the Guardian. Directed by John Collins. 2 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.) & 1 p.m. (Sun.), Power Center. Tickets $133–$183 (students, $40) in advance only at ums.org/season.
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