Florence Welch is writing songs for a 'Great Gatsby' musical.
Florence Welch
The Florence and the Machine hitmaker is teaming up with Pulitzer prize-winning writer Martyna Majok and Grammy nominee Thomas Bartlett to bring a new stage adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel to Broadway and she is "honoured" to have been asked to get involved with the project.
Martyna will helm the writing of the adaptation, as well as working with Florence on the lyrics for multiple original songs, while the 'Shake It Out' hitmaker will be collaborating with Thomas - who is also known as Doveman - on the music.
Florence said in a statement: "This book has haunted me for a large part of my life.
"It contains some of my favourite lines in literature. Musicals were my first love, and I feel a deep connection to Fitzgerald’s broken romanticism.
"It is an honour to have been offered the chance to recreate this book in song."
Meanwhile, Martyna is "thrilled, honoured, and inspired to work with this company of extraordinary artists, and to get to live in F. Scott Fitzgerald's transcendent, gorgeous words."
The Broadway show will be directed by Rebecca Frecknall, but the cast has yet to be revealed.
Further details of the production, including dates for a pre-Broadway run, will be announced soon.
Florence previously claimed she became more creative when she gave up drinking.
Shee said: "I'd gone through a lifestyle change -- as in, I'd had to stop drinking. I was a party monster and it was getting to the stage where I was just mashing myself to bits all the time.
"The scariest thing is, I used to think what made me creative was the fact I was a big hedonist. But towards the end, it was actually quite hard to make songs because I was in so much pain and all I was writing about was: 'How do I get out of this trap?'
"The theme of my writing was like: 'I'm stuck, I'm f*****, I don't know how to make this stop. Help, help, help!' "
By making a big lifestyle change, it meant a shift in Florence's songwriting and she was delighted that it has been accepted by her fans.
She explained: "I sort of stopped [the abuse] just before I made the track 'How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.' To show people this side of yourself, which is so frightening to you, and for people to accept it with love, and to sing it with people, was a really big catharsis.
"So I just found that my brain was more open. I just kind of wrote it down and let it all go."
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