Nice Work If You Can Get It - Broadway Creative Team

Joe DiPietro won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score for Memphis, which was also awarded the 2010 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. His other shows include All Shook Up; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (the longest running musical revue in off-Broadway history); The Toxic Avenger and The Thing About Men (both winners of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway musical). His plays include the much-produced comedy Over the River and Through the Woods, The Art of Murder (Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Play), Creating Claire ... read more George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn on September 26, 1898, and began his musical training when he was 13. At 16 he quit high school to work as a "song plugger" for a music publisher, and soon he was writing songs himself. "Swanee," as introduced by Al Jolson, brought George his first real fame and led to his writing a succession of 22 musical comedies, most with his older brother, Ira. The Gershwins' shows include Lady Be Good, Oh, Kay!, Strike Up the Band, Girl Crazy, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Of Thee I Sing. From his early career George ... read more Mr. Azenberg's producing credits on Broadway include Ragtime, The Lion in Winter, Mark Twain Tonight, Ain't Misbehavin', Children of a Lesser God, Master Harold...and the boys, Stoppard's The Real Thing, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Sunday in the Park With George, Whoopi Goldberg, Long Day's Journey into Night, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Side Show, The Iceman Cometh, Stones in His Pockets, Private Lives and Movin' Out. He has produced Neil Simon's work since 1972, including The Odd Couple,The Sunshine Boys, Chapter Two, They're Playing Our Song, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers. Film: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are ... read more Berlind was a New York City theatrical producer and board member of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc. He was one of the founders of Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill in 1960, a company that would later through Sandy Weill become Shearson Loeb Rhoades, which was eventually sold to American Express in 1981 for approximately $930 million in stock. Recent productions include The Book of Mormon, Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Proof; Medea; Anna in the Tropics; Caroline, or Change; Wonderful Town; Doubt; The History Boys; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Faith Healer; Deuce; The Year of Magical Thinking; Curtains; ... read more David has been Music Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger for thirty-five Broadway productions. Most recently, David acted as dance arranger on Roundabout Theatre Company’s Kiss Me, Kate and Tootsie, currently on Broadway. Other theatre credits include: many arrangements for the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, The Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City Music Hall (where he spent many years as music director), EssentialVoicesUSA (including the upcoming Washington Women), and TV’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Music director for several productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (including The King and I with choreographer Peggy Hickey), and for NBC’s live performances of The Sound of Music ... read more BILL ELLIOTT is an arranger, orchestrator, composer, conductor, and bandleader who has made a specialty of composing, arranging, and producing vintage styles of music. He was co-orchestrator for the 2015 production of Bandstand at the Paper Mill Playhouse. In 2015 he won a Tony award for Best Orchestrations for An American in Paris on Broadway. In 2015 he orchestrated two additional Gershwin musicals: the Chichester (England) Festival Theater debut production of Damsel in Distress and the Encores! revival of the 1924 Gershwin musical Lady Be Good. In 2012 he received Tony and Grammy nominations for his work on the Broadway musical Nice ... read more Received Tony Awards for August: Osage County and Glengarry Glen Ross. Other Broadway shows include: Blithe Spirit, Race, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, China Doll, The Last Ship, Matilda and Something Rotten. Upcoming production: Come From Away. ... read more Sonia Friedman Productions is a West End and Broadway theatre production company responsible for some of theatre's most successful productions of recent years. Sonia Friedman OBE and her company have initiated and produced more than 160 new productions. The company has won numerous Olivier and Tony Awards including a record-breaking nine Olivier Awards for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Recent SFP productions include The Book of Mormon; Farinelli and the King (Mark Rylance); Dreamgirls; The Ferryman; The Birthday Party; Ink; Hamlet (Andrew Scott); 1984; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; King Charles III; Funny Girl; Hamlet (Benedict Cumberbatch); Sunny Afternoon; ... read more Credits include Evita, The Book of Mormon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Seminar. Recent productions: House of Blue Leaves, West Side Story, La Bete, Come Fly Away, Ragtime, Gypsy, The Color Purple, Spamalot. Co-founded the investment firm Furman Selz, currently vice chairman Jeffries & Company. Vice chairman of Lincoln Center, Chairman emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, vice president NY City Opera. ... read more The Heidi Chronicles [ Broadway, 2015 ] Producer On the Town [ Broadway, 2015 ] Producer The Realistic Jones [ Broadway, 2014 ] Producer A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder [ Broadway, 2014 Nice Work If You Can Get It [Broadway, 2012] Producer Godspell [Broadway, 2011] Producer My Trip Down the Pink Carpet [Off-Broadway, 2010] Producer Fanny Hill [Off-Broadway, 2006] Producer Grace & Glorie [ Off Broadway, 1996 Producer Party [Off-Broadway, 1995] Producer Sally Marr...and her escorts [Broadway, 1994] Producer The Rise and Fall of Little Voice [Broadway, 1994] Producer Angels in America: Perestroika [Broadway, 1993] Associate Producer Any Given Day [Broadway, 1993] Producer Annie Warbucks [Off-Broadway, 1993] Producer Show Me Where the Good Times Are [Off-Broadway, 1993] Choreographer Angels in America: Millennium Approaches [Broadway, 1993] Associate Producer The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club [Broadway, 1992] Producer Artist Descending a Staircase [Broadway, 1989] Producer Other People's Money [Off-Broadway, 1989] Producer Sweet Sue [Broadway, 1988] Associate Producer Marry Me a Little [London, ... read more More than 35 plays and musicals including Anything Goes; Venus in Fur; Nice Work if You Can Get It; Young Frankenstein; Curtains; Grey Gardens; The Pajama Game; The Producers; Contact; Kiss Me, Kate. Many productions Off-Broadway and for resident and regional theatres in the U.S. Opera: The Met, NYCO, LAMCO, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, La Fenice, Maggio Festival Florence, L'Arena di Verona, Teatrolirico di Cagliari, Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon. He is the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama-Logue and Hewes design awards. ... read more Recent credits: Venus in Fur, Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour (West End) starring Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss, Ellen Burstyn and Carol Kane, La Bete (West End, Broadway) starring Mark Rylance, David Hyde Pierce and Joanna Lumley. Other credits: The House of Blue Leaves starring Ben Stiller and Edie Falco, It Shoulda Been You starring Tyne Daly, The Pajama Game starring Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara (Tony Award). Upcoming: Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick & Kelli O'Hara. ... read more Kathleen Marshall received 2011 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for choreography and Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations for direction for Anything Goes. Also on Broadway, Kathleen directed and choreographed The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town and Grease and choreographed Boeing-Boeing, Little Shop of Horrors, Seussical, Follies, Kiss Me, Kate, 1776 and Swinging on a Star. Off-Broadway credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York Shakespeare Festival), Saturday Night (Second Stage), Violet (Playwrights Horizons) and As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept). For City Center Encores!, she directed and choreographed Bells Are Ringing, Applause, Carnival, Hair and Babes in Arms, ... read more Derek McLane received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He has designed over 350 productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally and for TV. His over 40 credits include Burn This, The Parisian Woman, Anything Goes, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Ragtime, I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Tony Award). He has designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC, including “Hairspray” (Emmy Award). ... read more The Shubert Organization is America's oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on the Broadway. Since the dawn of the 20th Century, Shubert has operated hundreds of theatres and produced hundreds of plays and musicals both in New York City and throughout the United States. Shubert currently owns and operates seventeen Broadway theatres and six off-Broadway venues. ... read more NY Theater includes: The Normal Heart, Anything Goes (Tony® nomination), Glass Menagerie (Lortel nomination), Lend Me a Tenor (Hewes Award, Tony® & Outer Critics nominations), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Blithe Spirit (Tony® nomination), Kiss Me, Kate (Tony Award® winner), Pajama Game (Tony® nomination), Wild Party, Golden Child, Kimberly Akimbo, The Life. Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride (Metropolitan Opera), The Bartered Bride (Juilliard), Tristan & Isolde, Adriana Mater (Paris Opera/Bastille), L'amour de Loin (Salzburg, Paris/Chatelet, Santa Fe, Helsinki), Iolanta, Perséphone (Teatro Madrid); works throughout U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. Dance: Mark Morris Dance Group, SF Ballet, Boston Ballet, Arizona Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet. ... read more Tony Awards: The Book of Mormon, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer) and Perestroika, Copenhagen, God of Carnage, Clybourne Park, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun. Nominations: Wicked; Peter Pan; The Diary of Anne Frank; Hello, Dolly!; You're Welcome America, Man of La Mancha A View From the Bridge, Venus in Fur, The Motherfu**er With the Hat, Nice Work if You Can Get It. Current: Wicked, The Book of Mormon. This is Our Youth. Upcoming: A Delicate Balance, Fun Home ... read more Over 40 Broadway designs including The Prom, Tootsie, Mean Girls, Margaritaville, Springsteen on Broadway, War Paint, The Last Ship, Beautiful, If/Then, Anything Goes, American Idiot, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens. On the West End: Spring Awakening, Book of Mormon and Beautiful. Off Broadway designs include Bowie’s Lazarus, Giant, Rent, Everyday Rapture, Saved, 10 Million Miles, and Bug. He is the recipient of Obie, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Olivier and Tony awards. ... read more Philip J. Smith is the Chairman and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more Candy Spelling is an American author, philanthropist, and socialite. Born as Carole Gene Marer on September 20, 1945, in Beverly Hills, California, she is the daughter of Augusta Gene and Merritt Marer. She attended Beverly Hills High School and later graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. Spelling is best known for being the widow of television producer Aaron Spelling, who was responsible for hit shows such as "Charlie's Angels," "Dynasty," and "Beverly Hills, 90210." The couple married in 1968 and remained together until Aaron's death in 2006. They had two children together, Randy and Tori Spelling, both of whom ... read more Robert E. Wankel is the President and Co-CEO of the Shubert Organization. ... read more