Nice Work If You Can Get It Westend transfer?

[Bob30]

For those of you that have seen it how likely do you think a Westend transfer or perhaps UK Tour of this production is?

[Nickhutson]

limited - as we just had Crazy For You... which is a very similar show!

[Bob30]

I adored Crazy For You! Slightly biased as i was playing Lank in my school production at the time i saw the revival, so was already in love with the show.

Seeing as Crazy For You struggled to find an audience Nice Work could struggle?

[Nickhutson]

Crazy For You is great.

I think it's sad they're not doing original Gershwin musicals much - just these "new" Gershwin musicals. Quite impressive they're still writing considering they're both dead. Are Crazy For You and Nice Work (and another earlier London production: My one and only) jukebox musicals, then?

[Bob30]

Is Crazy For You technically an adaption of Girl Crazy?

But i would say they are Jukebox musicals, although i wouldnt want to compare the Gerhsiwns music with that of Abbas or the Spice Girls!

[abitoftap]

Is Crazy For You technically an adaption of Girl Crazy?

Yes..with extra songs from other shows. Not uncommon, the Anything Goes which is now done (the NT/Broadway)has extra Porter songs stuck in (pretty effectively).

I wouldn't call it a jukebox musical though..it's still (sort of) the original show/story/songs.

Nice Work isn't based on an existing Gershwin show (I don't think...)

[mallardo]

Nice Work is lightly based on Oh, Kay!, book by Bolton and Wodehouse. The same plot line is more or less followed.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Is Clap Yo' Hands in Nice Work...?

[abitoftap]

Thanks Mallardo.
I've got copies of the Girl Crazy and Oh Kay! Roxbury recordings which are great.