Nice Work If You Can Get It

Now at the Imperial Theatre until 15th June 2013

Don’t Miss it last Weeks

Nice Work If You Can Get It, starring two-time Tony winner Matthew Broderick and Tony nominee Jessie Mueller, will play its final performance on June 15 at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. The wonderful Gershwin tunes, when the sho closes on June 15, 2013 it would have played 478 performances and 27 previews. It was only on April 10 2012 that the show celebrated its first birthday Kathleen Marshall and the cast had a great cake from Carlo’s Bakery.A national tour will be launched in the 2014-2015 season.

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The musical was initially produced in 2001 at the Goodspeed Opera House titled They All Laughed!, with the book by Joe DiPietro and direction by Christopher Ashley.The musical received “mixed notices” according to Frank Rizzo, writing in the Hartford Courant. Since then, new collaborators and producers became involved.

A workshop was held in November 2007, featuring Harry Connick, Jr. and Erin Dilly. At that time, the show was titled Heaven on Earth. The musical was first scheduled to debut at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, running from December 2008 through January 2009. The production was expected to open on Broadway in Spring 2009, with Harry Connick, Jr. However, in 2008 it was announced that the musical was “officially postponed”, due to a change in the producing team; Connick ultimately left the project.

Preview performances began on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on March 29, 2012 with the opening on April 24, 2012. Directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, the cast stars Matthew Broderick (Jimmy Winter) and Kelli O’Hara (Billie Bendix). Additional cast includes Judy Kaye as Estonia Dulworth, The Duchess of Woodford; Michael McGrath as Cookie McGee; Jennifer Laura Thompson as Eileen Evergreen; Terry Beaver as Senator Max Evergreen; Robyn Hurder as Jeannie Muldoon; Stanley Wayne Mathis as Chief Berry; Chris Sullivan as Duke Mahoney and Estelle Parsons as Millicent Winter, the mother of Jimmy. In December of 2012, Blythe Danner took over for Parsons as Millicent Winter, and On April 2nd, 2013, Jessie Mueller assumed the role of Billie, replacing O’Hara.