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Nice Work If You Can Get It: Teen Edition

Specially designed for high school performers and family audiences, this full-length screwball comedy is a surefire crowd-pleaser featuring classic Gershwin tunes.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1920s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary
A hilarious new screwball comedy, Nice Work If You Can Get It pokes fun at the Prohibition era in a clash of elegant socialites and boorish bootleggers, all set to the glorious songs of George and Ira Gershwin.

Highlights from the score include “Fascinating Rhythm,” “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off,” “Someone To Watch Over Me,” “Sweet and Low Down,” “Delishious” and the title song.
REVIEWS:

"A bubbly crowdpleaser... a good new old-fashioned musical!"

 Variety

"Delishious... a farcical romantic comedy that has more twists than a pretzel and keeps the laughs building to the final curtain."

 The Huffington Post

"[A] frothy Jazz Age cocktail, brewed around a string of evergreen Gershwin tunes."

 The Hollywood Reporter

"Nonstop giddy fun thanks to its dynamic cast, Joe DiPietro's wickedly funny dialogue, and a treasure trove of timeless Gershwin favorites and rarities."

 amNY

"A lovely, witty diversion...an old-fashioned romp."

 Vulture

"Effervescent...screwball musical comedy meets the sublime songs of George and Ira Gershwin."

 The Sun-Sentinel

"Nice Work provides a welcome break from the troubles of the world, allowing you to get lost in some glorious songs performed by actors who clearly love what they’re doing."

 Herald-Tribune

Premiere Production: Nice Work If You Can Get It premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on April 24, 2012. Directed by Kathleen Marshall, the production starred Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara.

Characters

  • Casting: 5M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle)
  • Chorus Size: Medium

Available Material

Name Price
Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

1 x Libretto-Vocal Books

$24.00
Rehearsal Set Shipped upon receipt of a signed License Agreement and full payment of all invoices. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

1 Production Guide: Tips and tools for casting, rehearsals, directing, choreography, sets, props, lighting and more. The included script includes minimal direction tips and room for notation.

30 Libretto-Vocal Books: Includes all the basics for acting and understanding direction, including a background on the story and a easily-digestible breakdown of the story.

1 Piano-Conductor Score: A complete, useful score for the music director and rehearsal pianist. Includes all script cues in an easy-to-read layout.

1 Digital resource download, consisting of:
CHOREOGRAPHY VIDEOS: Simple, effective dance steps and staging ideas for selected songs, with optional choreographer voice-over.
SING-ALONG TRACKS: Recording of professional vocalists singing the full score, to help your cast learn the songs.
PERFORMANCE TRACKS: Recorded professionally.

$895.00

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