The feel-good musical to start 2025 in style… CLOC Musical Theatre is thrilled to present NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT in May 2025.
A hilarious new screwball comedy, Nice Work If You Can Get It pokes fun at the Prohibition era in a clash of elegant socialites and boorish bootleggers, all set to the glorious songs of George and Ira Gershwin.
The tale of Jimmy Winter, a wealthy and carefree playboy living the good life in the midst of Prohibition. Jimmy has an unfortunate habit of marrying chorus girls, until he’s forced to marry a woman of substance – Eileen Evergreen, the finest interpreter of modern dance in the world. On the weekend of their nuptials, Jimmy meets Billie Bendix, a tough-as-nails bootlegger who has inadvertently stashed 400 cases of gin in Jimmy’s basement. Knocked out by this one-of-a-kind woman, Jimmy must deal with his high-strung fiancée and an assortment of bootleggers, prohibitionists, G-Men and chorus girls, as well as one very moralistic senator.
Featuring the songs: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off, Someone To Watch Over Me, Fascinating Rhythm, ’S Wonderful, But Not for Me, Lady Be Good, I’ve Got a Crush on You and more.
Making his CLOC directorial debut, Green Room Award Nominee Mark Taylor, joins a powerhouse team including the award-winning Susan Lewis as Choreographer (42nd Street, The Boy From Oz, Steel Pier and more) assisted by CLOC stalwart James Rooney (Legally Blonde, Sunset Boulevard, 42nd Street and more) as Assistant Choreographer. David Clausen-Wisken joins us again as Musical Director coming off his MD debut with CLOC in the highly successful and loved season of Billy Elliot.
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT will be staged at The National Theatre, St Kilda in May 2025.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
A hilarious new screwball comedy, Nice Work If You Can Get It pokes fun at the Prohibition era in a clash of elegant socialites and boorish bootleggers, all set to the glorious songs of George and Ira Gershwin.
The tale of Jimmy Winter, a wealthy and carefree playboy living the good life in the midst of Prohibition. Jimmy has an unfortunate habit of marrying chorus girls, until he’s forced to marry a woman of substance – Eileen Evergreen, the finest interpreter of modern dance in the world. On the weekend of their nuptials, Jimmy meets Billie Bendix, a tough-as-nails bootlegger who has inadvertently stashed 400 cases of gin in Jimmy’s basement. Knocked out by this one-of-a-kind woman, Jimmy must deal with his high-strung fiancée and an assortment of bootleggers, prohibitionists, G-Men and chorus girls, as well as one very moralistic senator.
Featuring the songs: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off, Someone To Watch Over Me, Fascinating Rhythm, ’S Wonderful, But Not for Me, Lady Be Good, I’ve Got a Crush on You and more.
Making his CLOC directorial debut, Green Room Award Nominee Mark Taylor, joins a powerhouse team including the award-winning Susan Lewis as Choreographer (42nd Street, The Boy From Oz, Steel Pier and more) assisted by CLOC stalwart James Rooney (Legally Blonde, Sunset Boulevard, 42nd Street and more) as Assistant Choreographer. David Clausen-Wisken joins us again as Musical Director coming off his MD debut with CLOC in the highly successful and loved season of Billy Elliot.
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT will be staged at The National Theatre, St Kilda in May 2025.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director....................................................... Mark Taylor Choreographer....................................... Susan Lewis Musical Director................................... David Clausen-Wisken Assistant Choreographer............... James Rooney Set Designer............................................ Sally Martin & Justin Karakai Costume Designer............................... Victoria Horne Wig/Make Up Designer................... David Clausen-Wisken Lighting Designer................................. Brad Alcock Sound Designer...................................... Marcello Lo Ricco Assistant to the Director.................. Emily Kay Production Manager............................ Ric Birkett Assistant Production Manager..... Sujanthan Satkunarajah Stage Manager......................................... Bek McLaughlin Deputy Stage Manager...................... Gemma Hedger |
CAST
PRINCIPAL Jimmy Winter…........................................... Will Hanley (he/him) Billie Bendix…............................................... Lauren Holcombe (she/her) Cookie McGee............................................. Josh Saunders (he/they) Eileen Evergreen........................................ Lisa Nightingale (she/her) SUPPORTING Duke Mahoney............................................ Thomas Myszka (he/him) Senator Max Evergreen......................... Chris Anderson (he/him) Duchess Estonia Dulworth................. Liz O'Hanlon (she/her) Jeannie Muldoon / Ensemble.......... Melanie Ott (she/her) Chief Berry..................................................... Mike Gardiner Millicent Winter / Ensemble.............. Lee Threadgold ENSEMBLE - CHORUS GIRLS Simone Lay (she/her) Madeleine Magetti (she/her) India Morris (she/her) Claire Robinson (she/her) Tyler-Rose Shattock Ashley Tynan (she/they) Tailem Tynan Hayley Wootten ENSEMBLE - VICE SQUAD Tim Allison Bryce Dunn Rob Mulholland Thomas O'Reilly Sujanthan Satkunarajah (he/him) Caleb Waterworth (he/him/his) |
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PERFORMANCE DATES
Friday 16 May ........................8pm Saturday 17 May ..................8pm Sunday 18 May ....................2pm (Matinee) Wednesday 21 May ............8pm Thursday 22 May ...............8pm Friday 23 May ........................8pm Saturday 24 May .................8pm Sunday 25 May .....................2pm (Matinee) Wednesday 28 May ….…....8pm Thursday 29 May ….............8pm Friday 30 May ........................8pm Saturday 31 May ..................2pm (Matinee) |
TICKET INFORMATION
Adults................................................ $70 Concessions & Groups**..... $64 Child (16 and under) ...............$44 ** Group: 15 tickets or more (excluding children) ** Concession: Govt Age Pensions, Seniors Cards, Students 16+ A mail out fee of $2 per order delivered via Australia Post. No other fees apply. |
CLOC Musical Theatre
presents
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by Material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse
“Nice Work If You Can Get It” is presented by permission of ORiGiN™ Theatrical
On behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC, A Concord Theatricals Company
16 May - 31 May, 2025
The National Theatre Melbourne
20 Carlisle Street, St Kilda
presents
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
Music and Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by Material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse
“Nice Work If You Can Get It” is presented by permission of ORiGiN™ Theatrical
On behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC, A Concord Theatricals Company
16 May - 31 May, 2025
The National Theatre Melbourne
20 Carlisle Street, St Kilda
