As Gatsby, Jeremy Jordan is an excellent singer and a lot of Jason Howland’s music is lovely, but we never really understand what this new musical is trying to say.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel “The Great Gatsby,” which captured the roaring twenties with shocking clarity, is a staple of high school curricula and has been immortalized in two famous film adaptations (in 1974 by Richard Clayton and in 2013 by Baz Lurhman).

The musical "The Great Gatsby" opened Thursday night on Broadway.Forget East Egg and West Egg. The creators of the new musical “The Great Gatsby,” which opened Thursday night on

While it’s a massive show, Marc Bruni’s production doesn’t really convey the sense of flapper-age decadence that created the adjective “Gatsbyesque.”