Saturday, June 16, 2012

NICE WORK if YOU CAN GET IT - Rhapsody in Rapture

I like a Gershwin tune, how about you?  The Broadway Musical NICE WORK if YOU CAN GET IT at the Imperial Theatre has the music/lyrics by America's most beloved Broadway brothers, George & Ira Gershwin. Together they have won Pulitzer Prizes & Academy Awards for their work.  George is the musical genius and Ira, is a world reknown lyricist. Porgy & Bess which is currently playing on Broadway was from their collaborative work before George's untimely death at age 39.  There are so many wonderful songs in this musical:  "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," S'Wonderful, and "Blah, Blah, Blah" to name a few.  The choreography by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall is wonderful.  All the leads, are the best of Broadway, Tony winners Kelli O'Hara (South Pacific,) Judy Kaye (The Phantom of the Opera) and Academy Award winner, Estelle Parsons are all too marvelous for words.  The Great White Way, home to the best of the best & the trifecta of musical theatre, great acting, dancing & singing; so why cast Matthew Broderick? Broderick who won the Tony for his comedic roles in Neil Simon's plays is captivatingingly funny and displays some talent as a hoofer, but as a singer; bad, bad, bad. I'd say he's better than Pierce Bronson in MAMA MIA & Richard Gere in CHICAGO but that's the trifecta of big mistakes.

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