Nice Work If You Can Get It
Shows · Nice Work If You Can Get It
During Prohibition, playboy Jimmy Winter retreats to his Long Island estate for his wedding, only to discover that bootleggers have stashed their illegal liquor there. When the tough and beautiful Billie Bendix shows up to retrieve the goods, Jimmy falls head over heels, jeopardizing his engagement in a madcap comedy of rum-runners, socialites, and romantic mix-ups.
- Opened
- 2012
- Performances
- 478
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2012 | Imperial Theatre Original. April 24, 2012 · Kathleen Marshall | 478 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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7 passages naming Nice Work If You Can Get It, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Other songs in the score included “’S Wonderful,” “High Hat,” “Funny Face,” “Strike Up the Band,” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It.” book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p277
Best Book of a Musical: Once by Enda Walsh Nominees: Lysistrata Jones by Douglas Carter Beane; Newsies by Harvey Fierstein; Nice Work If You Can Get It by Joe DiPietro book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p426
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical: Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It Nominees: Phillip Boykin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Michael Cerveris, Evita; David Alan Grier, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Josh Young, Jesus Christ Superstar book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p427
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Once Nominees: Newsies; Nice Work If You Can Get It Queen of the Mist Outstanding Scenic Design (Play or Musical): George Tsypin, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Nominees: Bob Crowley, Once, Christopher Oram, Evita, Derek McLane, Nice Work If You Can Get It Outstanding Costume Design (Play… book:theatre-world-2011-12-season-v-68-willis#p431
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Michael McGrath, Nice Work If You Can Get It book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2011-to-may-2012-viagas-robert-8th-annual-ed#p432
Godspell is the latest casualty of the new theatre season, which has already seen postponements and/or cancellations of the revival of Brigadoon , the Harry Connick Jr. vehicle Nice Work If You Can Get It , and the revival of Ntozake Shange's acclaimed play, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbo… book:untold-stories-of-broadway-volume-2-part-1-the-jennifer-tepper#p296
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