This Side of Paradise: The Musical!

Bummed about the Street shutting down? Looking to escape the prefrosh? Really, really bored? Then the new musical version of This Side of Paradise might be just the thing for you!The show goes up this Wednesday a quick train ride away, at the (Off-Broadway) Theatre at St. Clements.Will it be any good? Who knows, adaptations of Fitzgerald's work have met with decidedly mixed results. The Robert Redford movie was widely panned, but it did win two Oscars (for film score and costume design).According the the website, the play seems to be less a direct adaptation of the novel and more a depiction of his rocky marriage with the sublimely named Zelda. And whomever put up a poster for the show at the Nassau-Witherspoon kiosk clearly understands the intended audience (Princetonians who will watch anything, so long as it features Princeton somehow).There's always hope for greatness, so we'll leave you with perhaps the triumph of modern Fitzgerald adaptation: The Great Gatsby, the OPERA! (If you do go see the play, tell us how it is in the comments section.)