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Both fell in love with the immersive format for its interactivity — Busenlener after seeing a production of “The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show” while studying abroad in London, and DiNardo after experiencing a handful of local, intimate shows that allowed for actors to converse with the guests.

Neither does Immersive Everywhere’s “The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show,” a jovial feast for the senses that never, in its lagging two-and-a-half-hour running time, truly rises above the status of a mere attraction.

“The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show,” which made its debut in London eight years ago, opened last week at the Park Central Hotel in New York.

This was the intended site of the Gatsby Mansion, the setting of the “The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show,” a theatrical performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel that opens on Sunday at the Park Central Hotel, the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of “Gatsby” adaptations.

Much like Fitzgerald’s Nick Carraway in “The Great Gatsby,” the narrator in “Tomb of Sand” has an insider’s access and stealthily weaves in and out of the story.