With a score from legends
George
and
Ira Gershwin
and a book by Tony Award-winning author and playwright
Joe DiPietro
, the slapstick prohibition musical
Nice Work If You Can Get It
follows in the footsteps of
Anything Goes
, deftly weaving classic Broadway gems (in this case, "Sweet and Lowdown," "Someone to Watch Over Me," and "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off") into an appropriately frisky and fun-loving narrative concerning a bootlegger dame (
Kelli O'Hara
) and a wealthy, weary, clueless cad (
Matthew Broderick
), the latter of whom rolls into town on the eve of his wedding day. Needless to say, hijinks ensue, most of which just serve as window dressing for what is essentially a straight-up musical revue of the Roaring Twenties with some peppy, genre-specific dialogue. ~ James Christopher Monger