NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT

Name: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Start: 2022-11-18T00:00:00
End: 2022-12-20T23:59:00
Location: Hayes Theatre Co.

Hayes Theatre Co

Run Dates

2022.11.18 ~ 2022.12.20

Hayes Theatre Co.

About the show

A feel-good musical set in the 1920s following Jimmy Winter, a wealthy playboy living through Prohibition. After a habit of marrying chorus girls, he must marry Eileen Evergreen, but falls for Billie Bendix, a bootlegger who has stashed 400 cases of gin in his basement. Featuring Gershwin songs including 'Nice Work If You Can Get It', 'Let's Call The Whole Thing Off', 'Someone To Watch Over Me', and more. Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, Book by Joe DiPietro, inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse.

Creatives

Joe DiPietro

Playwright/Author

Cameron Mitchell

Director, Choreographer

Lisa Callingham

Assistant Director, Cast

George Gershwin

Lyricist, Music

Ira Gershwin

Lyricist, Music

Damon Wade

Music Director

Simon Greer

Set Designer

Christine Mutton

Costume Designer

James Wallis

Lighting Designer

Michelle Guthrie

Producer

Rob Mallett

Cast

Ashleigh Rubenach

Cast

Grace Driscoll

Cast

Andrew Waldin

Cast

Anthony Garcia

Cast

Adorah Oloapu

Cast

Details

Following on from the success of the 2021 Neglected Musicals presentation Cameron Mitchell will direct and choreograph Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new take on classic 1920s musical farce. The tale of Jimmy Winter, a wealthy and carefree playboy living the good life in the midst of Prohibition. Jimmy has an unfortunate habit of marrying chorus girls, until he’s forced to marry a woman of substance – Eileen Evergreen, the finest interpreter of modern dance in the world. On the weekend of their nuptials, Jimmy meets Billie Bendix, a tough-as-nails bootlegger who has inadvertently stashed 400 cases of gin in Jimmy’s basement. Knocked out by this one-of-a-kind woman, Jimmy must deal with his high-strung fiancée and an assortment of bootleggers, prohibitionists, G-Men and chorus girls, as well as one very moralistic senator. Featuring the songs Nice Work If You Can Get It, Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off, Someone To Watch Over Me, Fascinating Rhythm, S’ Wonderful, But Not for Me, Lady Be Good, I’ve Got a Crush on You and more.

Where it's been performed

Hayes Theatre Co.

Sydney

Australia

Sydney

Australia

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