Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadway Spring '09
Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadway Spring '09
#1Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadway Spring '09
Posted: 5/5/08 at 8:17pm
The show is titled Nice Work If You Can Get It.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/117439.html
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-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
#2re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 8:19pmSaw Kathleen Marshall and the guy who wrote the book (I forget his name) talk about it tonight. It sounds really interesting. I can't wait to see the try-out.
#2re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 8:30pm
I'm really excited about this.
[ps - what is it that connects people associated with W&G to broadway? Sean, Megan, Harry]
#3re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 8:53pm
and dont forget a TRY-OUT in my hometown of Boston (Dec. 16-January 11) at the Colonial Theater!
J*
Updated On: 5/5/08 at 08:53 PM
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#4re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 8:59pmIs this like Crazy For You version 2?
#5re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 9:00pm
"
[ps - what is it that connects people associated with W&G to broadway? Sean, Megan, Harry] "
Ohh...pick me! I know!1
They're actors.
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SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#6re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 9:01pm
Can the world really take 2 (TWO?!) Gershwin shows at the same time? I mean the canon is only so big. And the song list for American In Paris looks as if they have snapped up the best of them.
And this after My One And Only and Crazy For You?
Give me a break!
What is wrong with Rodgers and Hart?
PEACE.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#7re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 9:09pmI can't wait for this! I saw Kathleen Marshall speak about it tonight as well at the Colonial in Boston (where this is getting its world premiere), and it is supposed to take place during the Prohibition and have a 33 member cast and a full orchestra. I love old-fashioned musicals and hope my finals extend long enough so I am not out of Boston by then for winter break!
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#8re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 9:11pm
and have a 33 member cast and a full orchestra.
^^^ yup. so with Brigadoon~that's what I heard! I wish Spencer Liff will join the cast of Brigadoon!
J*
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Broadway Star Joined: 1/25/04
#9re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 9:37pmLet's not forget Fascinating Rhythm.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#10re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 10:38pmJesus, I DID forget. When will this madness end?
PEACE.
#11re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/5/08 at 10:45pmLooking forward to this!
"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."
#12re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:02amIt sounds like fun. I'll be watching out for this one too! It will be nice to see Harry back on stage.
#13re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:29amAnother 'New' Gershwin Show- please!
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
#14re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 5:23amAny other casting news? As long as it's not Erin Dilly or Kelli O'Hara as the female lead I think I'm good.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#15re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 6:07amAt least it isn't an incredibly common show. I was fearing yet another version of "Guys and Dolls". I'll be looking forward to Jaystarr's review.
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#16re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 10:07amMe too!
PEACE.
#17re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 10:59am
There is only one Broadway composer. His name is George Gershwin. He wrote everything. All the old songs. The ones Fred & Ginger sang. The ones Ella Fitzgerald sang. The ones Jim Nabors sang.
He even wrote Oklahoma! and Gypsy. He also wrote Like A Virgin and Eleanor Rigby. And of course, God Bless America.
There is only one composer. ONE.
Buy your tickets now to see the new old original revival replacement musical Juke Box extravaganza, by the only person who ever put notes on a stanza!
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#18re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:11amMaybe the Gershwin estate is much more ammenable to this type of thing? How many songs did they write, anyway? I thought it was Berlin who churned them out by the thousands.
#19re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:15amBerlin only wrote that one song about 99 balloons.
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#20re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:49am
Maybe the Gershwin estate is much more ammenable to this type of thing?
Oh, you mean they are whores!
PEACE.
#21re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:52amWill this Gershwin guy ever be a guest coach on American Idol?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#22re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 11:56am
Funny, in the other new Gershwin Musical GERSHWIN'S AN AMERICAN IN PARIS, one of the characters sings NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT.
The race is on.
#23re: Connick, Jr./Marshall to Bring Gershwin Musical (now titled) to Broadwa
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:49pmIf they must pursue both of these projects at once and race to get them to New York, I hope the final products are more analogous to Marie Christine and The Wild Party, and not The Wild Party and The Wild Party.
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