Nice Work, Indeed! Matthew Broderick to Star in New Kathleen Marshall-Helmed Musical Nice Work If You Can Get It

Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick will star in the new musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, which will open on Broadway in spring of 2012. Kathleen Marshall, who recently won her third Tony Award for her work on Anything Goes, will direct and choreograph. Additional casting, venue and creative team will be announced shortly.

Nice Work If You Can Get It is a screwball romantic comedy that centers on a Prohibition-era playboy. The show, featuring a book by Tony-winning Memphis writer Joe DiPietro, and is reportedly a new incarnation of DiPietro's 2001 tuner They All Laughed, an adaptation of the 1926 Gershwin musical Oh, Kay! The score will feature some of the George and Ira Gershwin's most beloved songs, including “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” “Fascinating Rhythm,” “I’ve Got a Crush on You” and the title tune.

As previously reported, Broderick co-starred with Tony-winning Anything Goes star Sutton Foster in a reading of the piece in fall 2010. A scheduled 2009 Broadway mounting of Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Harry Connick Jr. was cancelled when Marshall departed the project as director.

Broderick is a Tony winner for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Brighton Beach Memoirs and was nominated for a Tony for The Producers. He most recently appeared on the New York stage in The Starry Messenger and has appeared on Broadway in The Philanthropist, The Odd Couple, Taller Than a Dwarf, Night Must Fall and Biloxi Blues.

Nice Work If You Can Get It will be produced on Broadway by Roger Berlind, Sonia Friedman, Roy Furman and Scott Landis.