Gershwins Get Another Opening Night on Broadway
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Producers announced that April 24 will be the official opening night of a “brand new” Gershwin musical on Broadway, Nice Work If You Can Get It. Following on the heals of the upcoming much-debated revised version of their opera with DuBose Heyward Porgy and Bess, it’s a striking output of fresh material from two gentlemen who are…well…less than fresh themselves. (George passed in 1937 and Ira in 1983.)
How do they do it? Clearly, they don’t. Using songs both famous and unsung from the Gershwin catalog, a talented set of collaborators has gathered on Nice Work to create a new show including Joe DiPietro (Memphis) with a bootlegger and bridegroom themed script, Kathleen Marshall (Anything Goes) on direction & choreography duty and Matthew Broderick & Kelli O’Hara starring.
And it’s not an unprecedented move. Can you name the other two hit Broadway musicals cobbled together from the Gershwin catalog? Watch some grin-inducing dancing from the answers in the video clips below…
