Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

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Producers 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

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 6/2/08 at 6:13pm

Ah! What?!? So do we think this won't happen at all?

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re: 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.

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re: 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.

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 6/2/08 at 6:22pm

Kathleen Marshall is out? This is GREAT news!

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 6/2/08 at 6:25pm

Ouch. We'll see what happens. I'll have a full review of it's try-out in Boston.

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 6/2/08 at 7:41pm

Couldn't agree more with WannaBe.

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Posted: 6/2/08 at 7:43pm

I too am glad to see Marshall off the project.

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 6/2/08 at 7:59pm

I'm directing it now.

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re: 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...

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:16pm

I wonder if this could be Tommy Tune's next directorial project.

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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-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)

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:17pm

The producers attended a performance of Grease. That was reason enough to get rid of Marshall.

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:22pm

did not see this..don't u wish you have the chance to delete threads u made....

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:27pm

Wow, 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.

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re: 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

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re: 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".

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re: Producers of new Connick/Gershwin show split - only Connick remains

Posted: 7/8/08 at 6:50pm

Any more news on this thrilling show?

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