NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews

[LimelightMike]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#1

Posted: 4/24/12 at 1:33am

Today is Tuesday, April 24, marking the official opening night of Nice Work If You Can Get It on Broadway, which borrows the Gershwin brothers' show tunes from the '20s and '30s. Kelli O'Hara plays a bootlegger who falls for a tipsy playboy played by Matthew Broderick in the new plot created by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro. The musical recently picked up nine Outer Critics Circle nominations, the most of any production of the season.

[CockeyedOptimist2]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#2

Posted: 4/24/12 at 1:38am

Saw it again tonight and loved it once again. I hope it gets the great reviews I think it deserves! Best to the cast and crew!

[bwayphreak234]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#2

Posted: 4/24/12 at 1:44am

I have a feeling this will turn out to be the surprise hit of the season! Wishing them all the best.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[mc1227]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#3

Posted: 4/24/12 at 6:02am

Best wishes for a fun and successful opening and for great reviews!!

The only review of a show that matters is your own.

[DottieD'Luscia]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#4

Posted: 4/24/12 at 7:25am

I have a ticket for May 18th (thanks to WAT for running to the box office for me). I'm really looking forward to this.

Hey Dottie! Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany

[ChildrenwillListen]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#5

Posted: 4/24/12 at 7:59am

Happy Opening Cast! Break a leg!

[EponineAmneris]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#6

Posted: 4/24/12 at 8:00am

I wish Matthew and Kelli all the best! Break-A-Legcast and crew!

"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES--- "THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS

[henrikegerman]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#7

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:24am

I predict mixed to very positive reviews - which for a musical this season is almost a singular accomplishment.

[WithoutATrace]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#8

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:44am

I loved every single thing about this production. At the very least, I'm hoping for rave reviews for Kathleen Marshall's work. Congrats to all involved, and here's hoping this turns into a hot ticket.

[Unknown User]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#9

Posted: 4/24/12 at 10:36am

Such a fun and charming show! Definitely wishing it well!

[iluvtheatertrash]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#10

Posted: 4/24/12 at 10:51am

I was completely surprised by how much I loved it. I hope it's a big, fat hit.

"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

[themysteriousgrowl]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#11

Posted: 4/24/12 at 11:08am

lupone76 is mixed with a rave for Judy Kaye.

I expected a Gershwin musical to be chock full of many high energy dance numbers. As it turns out there are only a few in the show. None of which are remarkable.

It was great to see Estelle Parsons do her thing as 'Mother'. Eventhough she was only on stage toward the end of the show. I can not say a bad thing about any of the performers.


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[phantom39]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#12

Posted: 4/24/12 at 11:30am

Unlike the LED theme park over at the Lunt, this one deserves great reviews. Wonderful production.

"Movies will make you famous; television will make you rich; but theatre will make you good." - Terrence Mann.

[SondheimFan5]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#13

Posted: 4/24/12 at 11:47am

It was so much fun 2 weeks ago and I'm sure it's only got even tighter since. It's a big throwback to all the big flashy tuners from the 20s and 30s. With a very strong cast and a witty book to boot. *Knock on wood* this WILL be the surprise hit of the season.

[North2009]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#14

Posted: 4/24/12 at 4:36pm

Has anyone posted a list of the musical numbers?

[Unknown User]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#15

Posted: 4/24/12 at 7:41pm

So far, all good stuff!!

AP: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/review-matthew-brodericks-show-nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-is-a-very-enjoyable-romp/2012/04/24/gIQAPfTSfT_story.html

amNY: http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/theater-review-nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-3-5-stars-1.3680078

Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120424/us-theater-review-nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/

[TheatreKid3]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#16

Posted: 4/24/12 at 7:48pm

^ AP and Huffington Post are the same review, just posted on both sites.

[egghumor]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#17

Posted: 4/24/12 at 7:52pm

North2009, here's the list of musical numbers:

http://ibdb.com/production-songs.php?ShowNo=491373&ProdNo=491374

[North2009]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#18

Posted: 4/24/12 at 7:54pm

Thank you. Much appreciated.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#19

Posted: 4/24/12 at 8:28pm

EW is mixed to positive, with a B.

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364394_20589877,00.html

[beautywickedlover]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#20

Posted: 4/24/12 at 8:57pm

Variety is mixed to positive, it seems. Correct me if I am wrong:

"The newly manufactured 1920s-set musical "Nice Work if You Can Get It" crams vintage Gershwin songs into a bubbly crowdpleaser, enchantingly rendered by thesps Kelli O'Hara, Michael McGrath and Judy Kaye. Mix in staging and choreography by Kathleen Marshall ("Anything Goes") and a cheerfully screwball if somewhat creaky new book by Joe DiPietro, and you've got what might be termed a good new old-fashioned musical. If only its likable, hard-working leading man -- a miscast Matthew Broderick -- didn't seem to be painfully concentrating on his next step, all night long."

http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947441?refCatId=33

Updated On: 4/24/12 at 08:57 PM

[Auggie27]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#21

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:06pm

I agree with the posts that suggest a surprise hit. The show had far less discernible buzz, good or bad, than any other -- which in this season helps it from this point on.

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

[broadwaydevil]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#22

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:13pm

Philadelphia Inquirer is positive!

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/148675025.html

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

Updated On: 4/24/12 at 09:13 PM

[broadwaydevil]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#23

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:16pm

The Hollywood Reporter is positive! (though I noticed it lists the theatre as the Lunt-Fontanne, someone should change that quickly lest someone accidentally stumble upon GHOST)

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/nice-work-you-can-get-it-review-matthew-broderick-315617

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

Updated On: 4/24/12 at 09:16 PM

[broadwaydevil]

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Reviews#24

Posted: 4/24/12 at 9:18pm

The Chicago Tribune is mixed :

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/theaterloop/sc-ent-0424-nice-work-broadway-review-20120424,0,2028515.column

"But for all DiPietro's stylish jokes and other amusements, and despite O'Hara's lovely voice and Marshall's fresh choreographic stylings, the show somehow doesn't hang together in a fully satisfying way. You struggle to fully buy the story, which gets fractured between too many locales and takes turns that leave you scratching your head. Overall, the book feels as if it was designed to accommodate the musical numbers. That might well have been the way the sausage was made, but we need to feel more as if it was the reverse. And everyone involved often gets caught between wanting to do something totally different with these famous songs — O'Hara, who doesn't always feel well-used, sings "Someone to Watch Over Me" while holding and cocking a gun, and "I've Got a Crush on You' is camped up mercilessly — and letting them work their natural charms.

Overall, the show is too afraid of emotional engagement, which is silly when you have these songs and O'Hara's voice and Broderick's likable self to deliver them. More truth and honesty would make the work considerably nicer — and, for the audience, easier to get."

Scratch and claw for every day you're worth! Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming You'll live forever here on earth.

Updated On: 4/24/12 at 09:18 PM