Dr. T. J. Eckleburg's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

True Confession:

In my previous life as a high school English teacher, I inflicted Gatsby on my students. And like all high school English teachers, I forced my students to discuss the infamous billboard eyes ofDr. T. J. Eckleberg).

Did you click on the link to the appallingly crappy essay about Dr. T. J. Eckleberg?

True Confession:

In my second year at a largely Jewish (although officially non-sectarian) sleep away camp, I was forced to be in the chorus for my group's production of Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. But the year after that, the theater counselors at the camp apparently realized that even the chorus couldn't hide my complete inability to carry a tune, and I was demoted to spotlight operator for our production of Oliver.

AND NOW BEHOLD, fellow Judaicrappers, the Visual Love Child of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg & Andrew Lloyd Webber (with more than a smattering of Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies thrown in for good measure):

Unfortunately, I am not sure that this artist was intentionally mashing up a literary masterpiece with campy former-Broadway shlock a la Grahame-Smith.

Way, way back many decades ago

Not long after the Great War ended

Gatsby lived in the land of West Egg

A fine example of a new money man

(It could be worse... I could have recorded myself singing that and posted it.)

But I still can't explain the zombie hands! ZOMG ZOMBIES!!! But watch out, Zombie Hands... you cannot escape the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg!

-- Judaicrappette