Nice Work If You Can Get It - A Musical - Featuring the beloved music of the Gershwins
Book by Joe DiPietro, Inspired by Material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Directed by Aaron Washington
Set in the 1920s, Nice Work If You Can Get It is the story of charming and wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter, who meets rough female bootlegger Billie Bendix the weekend of his wedding. Jimmy, who has been married three (or is it four?) times before, is preparing to marry Eileen Evergreen, a self-obsessed modern dancer. Thinking Jimmy and Eileen will be out of town, Billie and her gang hide cases of alcohol the basement of Jimmy’s Long Island mansion. But when Jimmy, his wife-to-be and her prohibitionist family show up at the mansion for the wedding, Billie and her cohorts pose as servants, causing hijinks galore.