Washington Ballet's "The Great Gatsby"
The first bit of action in Septime Webre's "The Great Gatsby" is the emergence of the jazz band, rising on a lift from the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater's orchestra pit, the tuba and string bass glowing under the lights like oil lamps. It's fitting that vocalist E. Faye Butler and the six musicians of Billy Novick's Blue Syncopators receive such a prominent introduction, because they are the starring attraction o…