Matthew Broderick and Sutton Foster to Headline Reading of Nice Work If You Can Get It

Tony winners Matthew Broderick and Sutton Foster have signed on for an October 8 developmental reading of the Gershwin songbook musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, according to Variety. The show, featuring a book by Tony-winning Memphis writer Joe DiPietro, centers on a Prohibition-era playboy and is reportedly a new incarnation of DiPietro's 2001 tuner They All Laughed, an adaptation of the 1926 Gershwin musical Oh, Kay!

Nice Work If You Can Get It had been announced for a 2009 Broadway mounting to star Harry Connick Jr. That production was cancelled when Connick’s Pajama Game director, Kathleen Marshall, departed the project. Marshall is back on board to direct the reading before collaborating with Foster on Roundabout Theatre Company’s forthcoming Broadway revival of Anything Goes.

Broderick, a Tony winner for Brighton Beach Memoirs and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, has not starred in a musical since his acclaimed performance as Leo Bloom opposite Nathan Lane in The Producers. His most recent theater credits include the Broadway revivals of The Philanthropist and The Odd Couple and the off-Broadway premiere of Kenneth Lonergan’s The Starry Messenger.

The busy Foster is currently starring in the off-Broadway production of Trust and is set for another high-profile reading, Bonnie and Clyde: A Folktale, opposite Will Swenson on September 10. She is a Tony winner for Thoroughly Modern Millie and received Tony nominations for Shrek the Musical, Little Women and The Drowsy Chaperone. Her other Broadway credits include Young Frankenstein, Annie, Les Miserables and Grease.

Scott Landis is producing the October reading of Nice Work If You Can Get It. No timeline for any full production of the show has been announced.