Nice Work If You Can Get It: new musical expected Spring 2012

Three time Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall ('Anything Goes,' 'Pajama Game,' 'Wonderful Town') will direct and choreograph the new musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It starring two-time Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick ('The Producers,' 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,' 'Brighton Beach Memoirs').

The musical is expected to arrive on Broadway in the Spring of 2012 and will be produced by Roger Berlind, Sonia Friedman, Roy Furman and Scott Land.

With a book by two-time Tony Award-winner Joe DiPietro (last season's Tony Award-winning 'Memphis,' for which he won Tony awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score), Nice Work If You Can Get It will feature songs from the Gershwin catalog, and specifically borrows from their 1926 musical "Oh Kay."

The press notes decribes the musical as a "Screwball romantic comedy takes place in the 1920s and centers around a wealthy playboy who gets mixed up with a hilarious trio of bootleggers."

Kathleen Marshall, whose helming of the Roundabout's 'Anything Goes' won the Tony for Best Musical Revival, and which earned her a Tony for Best Choreography, said, "I am beyond thrilled to get to work with Matthew Broderick again and to bring Matthew back to Broadway in his first musical since The Producers. The chance to do a new musical comedy with timeless songs by the Gershwin brothers is just heavenly."

A Broadway outing for the musical Nice Work If You Can Get It has been rumored for sometime. A workshop took place in Nov 2007 featuring Henry Connick jr and Erin Dilly, at that time the show was titled 'Heaven on Earth.'

Following the workshop the musical was expected to arrive on Broadway in the Spring of 2009, following a pre-Broadway try out at the Colonial Theatre in Boston from 16 Dec 2008 - 11 Jan 2009, starring Henry Connick jr. However, according to Broadway Across America - the then leading producer - the production team disbanded due to "irreconcilable differences," and in June 2008 it was announced the musical was officially postponed.

In Jun 2010 Harry Connick Jr said he was no longer involved in any future planed production of the show after a personal feud with director Kathleen Marshall. Connick, Jr., and Marshall had previously worked together on the 2006 Broadway revival of "The Pajama Game."