[ATTENDED: May 3, 2025] Nice Work If You Can Get It
This was our second musical performance at Rider University. Their theater program is fantastic and this entire performance was great.
The singers have great voices. The actors have excellent timing. And the spotlight on a tap performance was really fantastic.
Many of these performers have gone onto Broadway in varying roles. And it really shows.
We have said of both of these shows that I’m sure there would be a difference between seeing this show on Broadway as opposed to a college. Bigger budget, bigger stars, for instance. But it would be hard to improve on the quality of the performances.
Comedy, Farce – A new take on the 1920s musical farce, Nice Work If You Can Get It features the iconic music of George and Ira Gershwin. Billie Bendix, a tough-as-nails bootlegger, and wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter, meet on the weekend of his impending wedding. Jimmy has a habit of marrying chorus girls, but needs to settle down with a respectable woman before his mother will hand over the family business. He has gotten engaged to Eileen Evergreen, the self-proclaimed finest interpreter of modern dance, hoping that this will be a better choice than his usual chorus dancer. Needing somewhere to stash 400 bottles of gin, Billie swipes Jimmy’s wallet and hides her stash in his empty Long Island beach house. However, when the wedding party arrives at the beach house, the bootleggers must juggle the guests and their business.
I wanted to include the cast here in case we wind up seeing anyone on Broadway some day (more…)
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