Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 6:11pm
The producers of the new Gershwin musical "Nice Work if You Can Get It" have parted ways, leaving only Harry Connick Jr. attached to the project, which was to have been directed by Kathleen Marshall.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/118303.html
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#2re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 6:13pmAh! What?!? So do we think this won't happen at all?
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#2re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 6:15pm
Did you read the article?
It's happening. Broadway Across America is still producing it.
lovesclassics
Broadway Star Joined: 10/7/05
#3re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 6:20pm
I was just about to post this. I'm glad it's still happening and will still try out in Boston, but yikes!
I can't wait to see who they cast opposite HCJ and who the new director is. I'd love to see Michael Blakemore. He's great at farce.
#4re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 6:22pmKathleen Marshall is out? This is GREAT news!
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#5re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 6:25pmOuch. We'll see what happens. I'll have a full review of it's try-out in Boston.
#6re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 7:41pmCouldn't agree more with WannaBe.
#7re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 7:43pmI too am glad to see Marshall off the project.
#8re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 7:59pmI'm directing it now.
#9re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 8:06pm
So how long before Connick drops out...and this becomes a national tour...
All I'm saying is, this doesn't bode well for the future...
#10re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:16pmI wonder if this could be Tommy Tune's next directorial project.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#11re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:17pmThe producers attended a performance of Grease. That was reason enough to get rid of Marshall.
DrTheatre
Broadway Star Joined: 9/23/05
#12re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:22pmdid not see this..don't u wish you have the chance to delete threads u made....
#13re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:27pmWow, WannaBe, I don't know if you were serious, but Tommy Tune made wonders out of MY ONE AND ONLY. I can only imagine what he would do with a show along the same style now.
lovesclassics
Broadway Star Joined: 10/7/05
#14re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:38am
Tommy Tune is actually directing a new Brickman-Elice musical called Turn of the Century at the Goodman this fall. There's talk of a B'way transfer early 2009, so it would be competing with Nice Work.
Turn of the Century
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#15re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 6/20/08 at 10:13pm
"This is a fantastically funny and romantic show with two of the most thrilling things you could ask for in a new Broadway musical — a Gershwin score and Harry Connick, Jr."
WTF? THRILLING? I would hardly call an old Gershwin score OR Harry Connick "thrilling". At the most, they might be "NICE"...if they can get it...ON STAGE.
Now if he said it was "An UNDISCOVERED Gershwin score and Cuba Gooding, Jr., well, THAT might be "THRILLING".
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#16re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains
Posted: 7/8/08 at 6:50pmAny more news on this thrilling show?
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