Nice Work If You Can Get It
Nice Work If You Can Get It
The musical that we chose was Nice Work If You Can Get It, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara. Originally it was expected to open on Broadway in the spring of 2009, with Harry Connick Jr and Erin Dilly as the leading roles. There were disagreements between members of the production team causing the show to be postponed and later reestablished with a new cast and some new production team members as well. Nice Work If You Can Get It is a new musical with old songs taken from George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin such as, “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off,” and much more. This is a show set during the prohibition era in the 1920s’ where alcohol was made illegal under any circumstances. Jimmy Winter, a wealthy playboy, meets a rough female bootlegger, Billie Bendix, on the night of his nuptials. Jimmy is marrying his fourth wife Eileen, a self-obsessed dancer. Billie thought Jimmy would be out of town for a few days so she and her gang had planned to bring cases of alcohol to hide in the basement of Jimmy’s mansion on long island. Unexpectedly, Jimmy, Eileen, and Eileen’s family of prohibitionists show up at the mansion for the wedding. Billie and her gang must pose as servants until, Billie and Jimmy become very fond of each other and Jimmy is forced to make a decision between a self-obsessed dancer or a rugged bootlegger. Nice Work If You Can Get It is set in the Imperial Theatre in New York City. The Imperial Theatre was built in 1923 with 1,650 seats, but later was sized down to seat 1,421 people. It was constructed to replace their outdated Lyric Theatre. It was the fiftieth playhouse that the Shubert brothers, from Syracuse, had built in the New York area. The design of the theatre was done by Herbert J. Krapp, with the idea to have it as a musical comedy house.Like many other Shubert theaters, the Imperial was done with Herbert Krapp’s trademark
The musical that we chose was Nice Work If You Can Get It, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara. Originally it was expected to open on Broadway in the spring of 2009, with Harry Connick Jr and Erin Dilly as the leading roles. There were disagreements between members of the production team causing the show to be postponed and later reestablished with a new cast and some new production team members as well. Nice Work If You Can Get It is a new musical with old songs taken from George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin such as, “I’ve Got a Crush on You,” “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off,” and much more. This is a show set during the prohibition era in the 1920s’ where alcohol was made illegal under any circumstances. Jimmy Winter, a wealthy playboy, meets a rough female bootlegger, Billie Bendix, on the night of his nuptials. Jimmy is marrying his fourth wife Eileen, a self-obsessed dancer. Billie thought Jimmy would be out of town for a few days so she and her gang had planned to bring cases of alcohol to hide in the basement of Jimmy’s mansion on long island. Unexpectedly, Jimmy, Eileen, and Eileen’s family of prohibitionists show up at the mansion for the wedding. Billie and her gang must pose as servants until, Billie and Jimmy become very fond of each other and Jimmy is forced to make a decision between a self-obsessed dancer or a rugged bootlegger. Nice Work If You Can Get It is set in the Imperial Theatre in New York City. The Imperial Theatre was built in 1923 with 1,650 seats, but later was sized down to seat 1,421 people. It was constructed to replace their outdated Lyric Theatre. It was the fiftieth playhouse that the Shubert brothers, from Syracuse, had built in the New York area. The design of the theatre was done by Herbert J. Krapp, with the idea to have it as a musical comedy house.Like many other Shubert theaters, the Imperial was done with Herbert Krapp’s trademark