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Nice Work If You Can Get It (song) "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It began life in 1930 as a nine-bar phrase with the working title "There's No Stopping Me Now". Its title phrase "Nice work if you can get it" came from an English magazine. It was one of nine songs George Gershwin wrote for the movie "A Damsel in Distress" in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals by The Stafford Sisters. The song was published in
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Nice Work If You Can Get It (song) "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It began life in 1930 as a nine-bar phrase with the working title "There's No Stopping Me Now". Its title phrase "Nice work if you can get it" came from an English magazine. It was one of nine songs George Gershwin wrote for the movie "A Damsel in Distress" in which it was performed by Fred Astaire with backing vocals by The Stafford Sisters. The song was published in
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cast recording was recorded in May 2012 for the Shout! Factory label and distributed by Sony Records. The album was released in September 2012. Nice Work If You Can Get It (musical) Nice Work If You Can Get It is a musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin, with a book written by Joe DiPietro, and based on material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. "Nice Work" premiered on Broadway in April 2012. The musical was initially produced in 2001 at the Goodspeed Opera House titled "They All Laughed!", with the book by Joe DiPietro and direction by
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Nice Work If You Can Get It (musical) Nice Work If You Can Get It is a musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin, with a book written by Joe DiPietro, and based on material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. "Nice Work" premiered on Broadway in April 2012. The musical was initially produced in 2001 at the Goodspeed Opera House titled "They All Laughed!", with the book by Joe DiPietro and direction by Christopher Ashley. The musical received "mixed notices" according to Frank Rizzo, writing in the "Hartford Courant". New collaborators and producers then became involved. A
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few history lessons are this much fun". Feinstein's research is evident on this album, with debut recordings of the songs "Anything for You" and "Will You Remember Me?". All music composed by George Gershwin, and all lyrics written by Ira Gershwin. Nice Work If You Can Get It: Songs by the Gershwins Nice Work If You Can Get It: Songs by the Gershwins is a 1996 album by American vocalist Michael Feinstein of songs composed by George Gershwin. It was Feinstein's second album of Gershwin's music, following "Pure Gershwin" (1987) and preceding "" (1998). The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann
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Nice Work If You Can Get It: Songs by the Gershwins Nice Work If You Can Get It: Songs by the Gershwins is a 1996 album by American vocalist Michael Feinstein of songs composed by George Gershwin. It was Feinstein's second album of Gershwin's music, following "Pure Gershwin" (1987) and preceding "" (1998). The Allmusic review by William Ruhlmann awarded the album four ½ stars and compared the album to Feinstein's earlier all-Gershwin album "Pure Gershwin" (1987). Feinstein had previously been a secretary to Ira Gershwin, and Ruhlmann remarks that "the man has the heart of a research assistant, but
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if You Can Get It,” the pastiche of a 1920s musical featuring songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Most of this show, which opened on Tuesday night at the Imperial Theater, registers as a shiny, dutiful trickle of jokes and dance numbers performed by talented people who don’t entirely connect with the whimsy of a bygone genre. [...] But then, all at once, there’s a moment of delicate ridiculousness, of utterly credible improbability, that signals what Kathleen Marshall, the production’s director and choreographer, must have been aiming for." The "USA Today" reviewer wrote: "[...] director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall and a stellar
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"Let No Man Write My Epitaph"" (1960), and "Ella and Oscar" (1975). For these albums she was accompanied by the pianists Ellis Larkins, Paul Smith, and Oscar Peterson respectively. This album was also Fitzgerald's first all Gershwin album since 1959's "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook". The album cover is a caricature of Fitzgerald, Previn, and the Gershwin brothers by the American cartoonist Al Hirschfeld. The album notes were written by Benny Green. All songs composed by George Gershwin, with all lyrics written by Ira Gershwin. Nice Work If You Can Get It (album) Nice Work If
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I've Got a Crush on You "I've Got a Crush on You" is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It is unique among Gershwin compositions in that it was used for two different Broadway productions: "Treasure Girl" (1928), when it was introduced by Clifton Webb and Mary Hay, and "Strike Up the Band" (1930), when it was sung by Doris Carson and Gordon Smith. It was later included in the tribute musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (2012), in which it was sung by Jennifer Laura Thompson. It is considered a jazz standard,
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a Man," Bancroft appears in a comedy sketch with David Susskind where she plays a hapless singer in an audition who sings the song from sheet music, cluelessly ignoring the different pronunciation of "to-may-to" and "to-mah-to", etc. The tune was also featured in the 2012 Broadway Musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It". Let's Call the Whole Thing Off "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" is a song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film "Shall We Dance", where it was introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as part of a celebrated dance duet
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and give me song"). Performed by the Gershwins at private parties, Vincente Minnelli included it in his 1936 revue "The Show is On", where it was introduced by Gracie Barrie and Robert Shafter. It was then performed by Gene Kelly and Oscar Levant in Minnelli's 1951 film "An American in Paris". The song was also featured in the musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It", performed by the character Estonia Dulworth in a counterpoint with a reprise of "Sweet and Lowdown". By Strauss "By Strauss" is a 1936 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It
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"Nice Work If You Can Get It" (1983). For the 1950 Decca Records 10" LP; Decca DL 5300 Side one Side two All music composed by George Gershwin and all lyrics written by Ira Gershwin. Ella Sings Gershwin Ella Sings Gershwin is a 1950 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the pianist Ellis Larkins. Issued on DL5300 on the Decca label, this was Fitzgerald's first album. Originally on 10" vinyl, which preceded album releases on 12" vinyl, it featured eight tracks. The complete album was combined with Fitzgerald's 1954 album "Songs in a Mellow Mood" and re-issued on CD
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the musical revival of "On the Town", also producer of the US national tour of "Ghost", adapted for the stage by Bruce Joel Rubin, directed by Matthew Warchus, music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Glenn Ballard, and the Australian tour of "Driving Miss Daisy" starring Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines. He is co-producer of the Tony-winning George and Ira Gershwin musical, "Nice Work If You Can Get It", with a book by Joe DiPietro. The musical received 10 Tony nominations, 9 Drama Desk nominations and 9 Outer Critics Circle nominations. It stars two-time Tony Award winner
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Williams in 1992. In the 1951 film "An American in Paris", the song is performed by Georges Guétary. A version of this song was used during the opening credits of the 1995 to 1998 CBS sitcom "Cybill", starring Cybill Shepherd, who performed the song. The song was included in the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical "Crazy for You" and lent its name to the musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It". Nice Work If You Can Get It (song) "Nice Work If You Can Get It" is a popular song and jazz standard composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by
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Nice Work If You Can Get It (album) Nice Work If You Can Get It is a 1983 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and André Previn, with accompaniment from the double bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. This was Fitzgerald's only album recorded with Previn, and represented her first album of single composer material since her 1981 album "Ella Abraça Jobim". "Nice Work If You Can Get It" was the last in a long line of collaborations that Fitzgerald made with predominantly jazz piano accompaniment. Her earlier albums in a similar vein were "Ella Sings Gershwin" (1950), "Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from
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marrying someone he doesn't truly love. Billie isn't all that interested in his tale of woe, until he reveals that he has a huge Long Island beach house that he never uses, so she swipes his wallet to discover the address. Jimmy assumes Billie is falling for him, but Billie insists that love is for suckers. Jimmy vehemently disagrees ("Nice Work If You Can Get It"). Jimmy passes out, and Billie focuses on this interesting man unconscious on the ground before her ("Nice Work If You Can Get It - Reprise"). Cookie and Duke rush back on, and Billie tells
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Michael McGrath (actor) Michael McGrath (born September 25, 1957) is an American stage actor. He has appeared in many Broadway stage productions, and is especially noted for his roles in the musicals "Spamalot" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It". McGrath played the role of Patsy in the Broadway musical "Spamalot" (2005), for which he received a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He played the role of Cookie McGee in the Broadway musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (2012), for which he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor
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songs he's spent decades singing". Bobby Reed of "DownBeat" wrote "Bennett and Krall offer 10 delightful duets—including “I Got Rhythm,” “Do It Again” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It”—and each vocalist delivers one solo rendition; his is “Who Cares?” and hers is “But Not For Me.” Just as salt and pepper can work together in a recipe, Bennett’s authoritative vocals and Krall’s more delicate delivery complement each other, and several tunes conclude with a delicious bit of unison singing". Love Is Here to Stay (album) Love Is Here to Stay is a collaborative album by Tony Bennett and
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you get past the goofy idea and put some time in, the game opens up and really presents a nice experience. " TouchArcade said " If you've got the patience to stick it out, though, Dice Soccer will give you more content than you can handle. " AppSpy wrote " This addictive combination of soccer, strategy, and chance might grab you, but beware of the extra costs that might be involved if you get yourself hooked. " Level.nu wrote " A turn based soccer game based on dice and constantly collecting new, better players. There's smart tactics under the seemingly
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follows and reveals that she happens to be the biggest rum-runner on Long Island, and she'd like Billie to marry her son and take over her business. Billie happily accepts ("Someone to Watch Over Me - Reprise"). And on the ritzy terrace under a starry night, love has blossomed, the bootleg is opened and the company celebrates their new found joy ("They All Laughed!"). Reviews of the Broadway production were mixed to positive. Ben Brantley, in his "New York Times" review, wrote: "Every now and then, a bubble of pure, tickling charm rises from the artificial froth of “Nice Work
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cast ensure that the show is as charming in execution as it is disheartening in theory. [...] For every sharp line, there are a couple that will make you wince — or would, if they weren't delivered with such disarming spirit and skill. [...] Broderick fares predictably well in the kind of role he does best: a sweetly deadpan social doofus. O'Hara proves once again that there's pretty much nothing she can't do on stage. [...] [T]he excellent Judy Kaye, playing a smug Prohibition advocate, sips spiked lemonade and gets flamboyantly frisky." The "Newsday" reviewer wrote: "Kathleen Marshall [...] has
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saying, "If you don't like it now, you can get to like it. If you can't get to like it, who says you have to like it?" The point of it was to demystify art and free the artist from the limitations of his own taste. There was a great sense of liberation that stemmed from John Cage's championing of this philosophy, and Jimmy, among others, was establishing alternatives to the kind of teaching that had dominated modern-dance composition up until then. In her "Work 1961–73", Yvonne Rainer wrote about Waring: Jimmy had an amazing gift which – because I
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play here a couple years and maybe get a chance to coach up here", Williams said. "Because I really like Toronto, I really like this organization … you can live here, you know? You feel like you have a life. I come to work, I go home, play with my kid, walk to the store. It's really nice. I get to teach. It's wonderful here." In another interview, he expressed further desire to remain in the CFL, "If I came back here, you can put me anywhere", he says. "Up here, I can play offense, defense, special teams. I can
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and an irate Eileen storms off to get her father. That night in Jimmy's ritzy bedroom, Billie breaks in and tries to seduce him, badly ("Treat Me Rough"). Chief Berry, who has been pursuing Billie, barges in to arrest her. But Jimmy convinces him that Billie is actually his newest wife ("Let's Call the Whole Thing Off") and Billie and Jimmy are forced to spend the whole night together in his bedroom. The next morning, Jeannie, a happy-go-lucky chorus girl, comes upon Duke, a lug from New Jersey, and mistakes him for an actual English Duke. Duke, who is perpetually
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birthday, Mrs. Child gives him the Zangler theater (Zangler has used all his money on the show in Deadrock). While initially ecstatic, Bobby realizes that his love for Polly is worth more in "Nice Work if You Can Get It," and leaves for Deadrock with Mrs. Child to pursue her. Meanwhile, Polly has decided to leave for New York to look for Bobby, who enters Deadrock just after she leaves. After learning that Polly has left to find him, he leaves the stage to "wash up" before driving back to New York to catch her. Bobby's mother and Irene (who
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you all can see I have no control over this site yet, but will try to get it soon as possible. If not..keep your eyes open for a new one. And thanks everyone for all the nice words in here. As you can see I decided to join my friends of Susperia where my first performance will be early next year. More info to come. In the... meantime you can always use google translate. -Mustis" Mustis Mustis is the pseudonym of Øyvind Johan Mustaparta (born 10 September 1979), a Norwegian keyboardist best known for his work in the symphonic black
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of luncheon preparation. She insists on hiring a string quartet for entertainment, but Cookie has other ideas ("By Strauss" / "Sweet and Lowdown - Reprise"). As Billie sets the ritzy luncheon table, Jimmy makes one last attempt to appease her ("Do, Do, Do"). But Billie will have none of it. As the luncheon begins, Cookie and Duke frantically serve the luncheon guests, and the Duchess continues to annoy Cookie, who spikes her lemonade with Gin. Billie entertains them all with a cockney song ("Hangin' Around With You") which mainly serves as an excuse to keep pouring hot soup on Jimmy's
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lap. But Billie accidentally pours some steaming soup onto Eileen, who immediately fires her. The Duchess, now happily drunk, defends Billie and reveals a deep secret as she grabs onto Cookie, climbs on the luncheon table and swings from a chandelier ("Looking for a Boy"). After he drags off the Duchess, an angry Jimmy calls Billie a common criminal, and they realize that they can never be together. Jimmy goes to prepare for his wedding, as Jeannie enters looking for Duke, who Billie accidentally reveals isn't a real duke. Jeannie is furious, so Duke tries to win her over with
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1937. The first jazz recording of the work was by Tommy Dorsey three weeks after the release of the film. Early chart versions were by Shep Fields, Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday, Fred Astaire, Maxine Sullivan, and The Andrews Sisters. The song was recorded by many jazz singers and adopted by bebop instrumentalists; Jerry Newman recorded pianist Thelonious Monk performing the tune in 1941 at Minton's Playhouse, a nightclub closely connected with early bebop, and he subsequently recorded it several times. Other jazz pianists who have recorded the tune include Art Tatum in 1949, Erroll Garner in 1968, and Jessica
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cellar to get the wedding china, Jimmy and Cookie frantically distract the wedding party away from the basement ("Fascinating Rhythm") as the curtain falls. Act II<br> On the ritzy terrace, the Vice Squad and Chorus Girls revel ("Lady Be Good"). Billie enters and realizes she'll never be as happy as the dancing revelers around her ("But Not For Me"). Cookie and Duke enter and, since they're all now disguised as servants, they plot how they can get the impending wedding luncheon over and done with as quickly as possible. The Duchess barrels on to instruct Cookie in the finer points
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other when we wrote "My Day Will Come", so it was nice to work together again.". Alexa states "When I wrote "Somebody Out There", I had just started a new relationship. I was in LA writing, and my somebody out there was in Australia. One line sums it up for me "A thousand miles, a million smiles, how many more to go? I was thousands of miles away, meeting lots of people, but I couldn't wait to get home. Of course you can look at this song another way that there's somebody out there for everybody". It entered the ARIA
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nervous around women, tries to escape, but Jeannie does everything in her power to get him to notice her ("Do it Again"). In the ritzy living room, Jimmy and Billie realize that they are hopelessly in love ("'S Wonderful") But Eileen returns with her father – the ultra-conservative Senator Evergreen – and her aunt – the Duchess Estonia Dulworth – to demand that Jimmy and Eileen have a legal wedding. Jimmy has no choice but to marry Eileen, and Billie pretends to be a cockney maid so she can stick around and guard the bootleg. As Eileen beelines towards the
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name a few. In 1994, Terence Blanchard's recorded "In My Solitude: The Billie Holiday Songbook", for Columbia, with vocalist Jeanie Bryson. Bryson sings "Nice Work If You Can Get It", "What A Little Moonlight Can Do", "Fine And Mellow", and "Strange Fruit", a smooth, relaxed CD unhurried at its best. Jeanie Bryson 2001 CD "Deja Blue" gently cradles you with her velvet voice. Bryson is sweet, laid-back, and melodic. "Deja Blue" is a sultry ballad with an excellent solo by Steve Nelson on vibes. Lately, fans and critics alike eagerly await Jeanie's newest project, "The Dizzy Gillespie Songbook", a loving
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Elena/Damon relationship saying: "Can you say sexual tension? Elena and Damon get into it while standing thisclose (in the rain, no less) as they argue about if Elena can go to save Stefan. They really have a nice mix of heat and genuine concern for each other. I guess time will only tell when/if these two get together." Zeba of "Two Cents TV" also gave a good review to the episode saying that it was more thrilling than last week’s. "Things got a little crazy on last night’s episode of the Vampire Diaries, and if you guessed that most of
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"Wouldn't It Be Nice" subverts this convention in its very first lyric: "wouldn't it be nice if we were "older"". In the "Endless Harmony" documentary, Wilson described the song as "what children everywhere go through ... wouldn't it be nice if we were older, or could run away and get married". Wilson added in 1996, "'Wouldn't It Be Nice' was not a real long song, but it's a very 'up' song. It expresses the frustrations of youth, what you can't have, what you really want and you have to wait for it." The song expresses "the need to have the
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her BFA in acting from Boston University. In 2004, Donovan married broadway stagehand Peter Donovan, who most recently worked on the broadway company of "Billy Elliot" and is presently preparing "Nice Work If You Can Get It". Donovan's career started before she graduated from college. During her senior year, she received her Equity Card standing by for Carolee Carmello in the Boston Company of "Nite Club Confidential" starring Scott Bakula. Shortly after graduation, she auditioned for the National Tour of "Les Miserables" through an "open call" and was cast as Cosette. She went on to originate that role in the
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the adventure "Nice work if you can get it." Lich Lords Lich Lords is an adventure for fantasy role-playing games published by Mayfair Games in 1985. "Lich Lords" is a scenario for character levels 12-16 involving an expedition into the catacombs of the buried city of Ool, accompanying a horrid group of rebel liches who want to overthrow their king. It includes new rules for "wishes", high-level magic, and liches. "Lich Lords" was written by Lynn Sellers, with a cover by Frank Frazetta, and was published by Mayfair Games in 1985 as a 32-page book with a removable cardstock map
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starred in a new one woman show "Show People" written by the makers of "Britney Spears: The Cabaret" and it played at the 2015 Adelaide Cabaret Festival. She played Eileen Evergreen in The Production Company's "Nice Work If You Can Get It". She featured in "The Wrong Girl" for Network 10 and feature film "Spin Out". Whelan-Browne appeared in Melbourne Theatre Company's production of "The Odd Couple". from November 2016, and as Billie Dawn in its 2017 production of "Born Yesterday" Christie Whelan Browne Christie Whelan Browne (born 6 August 1982) is an Australian actress who has worked extensively in
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one of the Gershwins' best" according to theatre writer Ken Bloom. In 1992 the show appeared on Broadway in heavily revised version. It was given a new title "Crazy for You", a completely new plot, and interpolated with material from other Gershwin stage shows and films, specifically songs written for the Fred Astaire movies of the 1930s such as "Nice Work If You Can Get It" from A Damsel in Distress and "They Can't Take That Away From Me" from Shall We Dance. "Musicals Tonight!", New York City, presented a staged concert in September 2001. An abridged version of "Girl
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192 home runs and 844 runs scored as a team. After firing the White Sox's manager and former Doby teammate Bob Lemon, Veeck replaced him with Doby on June 30, 1978. At age 53, Doby became the second black manager in the majors after Robinson. "It's so nice to work for a man like Bill Veeck. You just work as hard as you can, and if the opportunity arises, you will certainly get the opportunity to fulfill your dreams", Doby said after being named White Sox manager. To that point in the season, the White Sox had a 34–40 record.
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a poem ("Blah Blah Blah"), but Jeannie rushes away. In the ritzy bedroom, Cookie is dressing Jimmy for his wedding as Billie enters to return his wallet. Jimmy and Billie both realize that this is the last time they'll ever see each other ("Will You Remember Me?"). The Chorus Girls and Vice Squad set up the wedding ("I've Got To Be There - Reprise"). As Senator Evergreen presides, Eileen makes her very grand entrance ("I've Got a Crush on You"). But just before vows are exchanged, Cookie and Duke rush in, pretending to be Prohibition Agents, though Chief Berry quickly
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cast or crew. For the past 5 years, the program has been run under the supervision of Edward Santillanes, who recently retired at the end of the 2018 school year. Under Mr. Santiallnes' direction the El Camino Drama department has put on multiple successful shows and musicals, recently including, Fiddler on the Roof (2016), Blythe Spirit (2016), The Sound of Music (2017), Plaza Suite (2017), Nice Work If You Can Get It (2018), and Suite Surrender (2018). In recent years the program has received multiple awards from the San Juan Theatre Festival, including Gold and Bronze in an Original Scene,
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to Watch Over Me"). Four and a half hours later, Eileen is still bathing ("Delishious"). In the ritzy living room, Cookie and Billie devise a plan for Billie to distract Jimmy from the 400 cases of gin in his cellar. Billie runs off as Jimmy enters, followed by a gaggle of chorus girls who invite him for a group swim, which Jimmy almost accepts ("I've Got to be There"). Eileen enters with a flourish, and just as she is about to let Jimmy touch her, he receives a telegram revealing that his last wife has refused to sign the annulment,
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them that she found a place to store their bootleg – a Long Island beach house. A police whistle pierces the air, and the bootleggers scatter. Senator Max Evergreen and Chief Berry enter, along with Duchess Estonia Dulworth, who has brought along her Vice Squad and vows to rid society of its greatest evil ("Demon Rum"). The next morning, Billie, Cookie and Duke have stored their 400 cases of gin in the cellar of Jimmy's ritzy beach house. Eileen Evergreen, the finest interpreter of modern dance in the world, enters with Jimmy. They were married that morning, and they are
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easy to understand why the palm trees that now adorn the famous "Promenade des Anglais" in Nice, and other walks of the French coast, are from Bordighera. During his stay in Bordighera, the painter Claude Monet asked his friend Durand-Ruel to intercede for him, to get him permission to visit the Moreno gardens. Monet wrote: "Here lives a certain Mr. Moreno, who owns a wonderful property, but one cannot visit it without a recommendation. I would be very obliged if you could get me a permission to visit.” Monet got the permission and painted numerous paintings which now belong to
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Sisters made their first recording,"Let's Get Together and Swing" with Louis Prima, in 1936. In 1937, Jo worked behind the scenes with Fred Astaire on the soundtrack of "A Damsel in Distress", creating the arrangements for the film, and with her sisters she arranged the backing vocals for "Nice Work If You Can Get It". Stafford said that her arrangement had to be adapted because Astaire had difficulty with some of the syncopation. In her words: "The man with the syncopated shoes couldn't do the syncopated notes". By 1938, the Staffords were involved with Twentieth Century Fox's production of "Alexander's
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like an artist; Don't wait until you know who you are to start making things; Write the book you want to read; Use your hands; Side projects are important; Do good work and put it where people can see it; Geography is no longer our master; Be nice (the world is a small town.); Be boring (it's the only way to get work done.); and, Creativity is subtraction. After giving the speech, he posted the text and slides of the talk to his popular blog. The talk went viral, and Kleon dug deeper and expanded to create the book, for
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updated version of the 1964 Sinatra/Crosby film called "Robin and the 7 Hoods". She asked Elliott to orchestrate it and, through contacts he made doing that show, he was led to other theater work. Elliott began writing for Broadway shows beginning about 2008. One of his original songs, called "Bill's Bounce", was featured in the Broadway musical dance revue "Swing!". He contributed additional orchestrations to the 2011 revival of Broadway's "Anything Goes". In 2012 he was nominated for both Tony and Grammy awards for "Nice Work if You Can Get It" — the Tony nomination was for best orchestration, the
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in "Carefree" (1938). He first presented Jerome Kern's "The Way You Look Tonight" in "Swing Time" (1936); the Gershwins' "They Can't Take That Away from Me" in "Shall We Dance" (1937), "A Foggy Day" and "Nice Work if You Can Get it" in "A Damsel in Distress" (1937); Johnny Mercer's "One for My Baby" from "The Sky's the Limit" (1943) and "Something's Gotta Give" from "Daddy Long Legs" (1955); and Harry Warren and Arthur Freed's "This Heart of Mine" from "Ziegfeld Follies" (1946). Astaire also co-introduced a number of song classics via song duets with his partners. For example, with
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credited to James Moody: Stop, Go, Wailing Wall NYC, September 20, 1949 The Fats Navarro tracks were also issued by Prestige on the following 78rpm singles: Thinking of You, Nice Work If You Can Get It NYC, September 16, 1950 The Dizzy Gillespie tracks were also issued by Prestige on the following 78rpm singles: Morpheus, Whispering, Down Apex Studios, New York City, January 17, 1951 Two takes of the tune "Blue Room" were also recorded at this session. This was Miles Davis' first recording session for Prestige Records, for whom he would record many albums over the next five years,
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1950, Gray played a live concert at the San Francisco Veteran's Memorial Hall as a guest with Gerald Wilson's band. Remarkably captured in high fidelity stereo (the only such example in his discography), this recording was released for the first time in 2006 (17). Gray can be heard in fine form during featured solo spots with small combo backup on "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "Indiana" and also with Wilson's big band on the blues "Hollywood Freeway" where Gray trades exciting choruses with Zoot Sims and Stan Getz. At around this time his recording sessions started becoming
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Buley Rockhole Buley Rockhole is a rock-hole located in Litchfield National Park in the Northern Territory. The rockhole is named after Norman Buley who was an engineer in charge of a government prospecting party sent to "examine areas drained by the Katherine, Fitzmaurice and Daly Rivers in 1920." It is down a short street off the road going towards Florence Falls. It is only a couple of kilometers from Litchfield and about an hour from Darwin. Buley rockhole is a relaxing set of rockholes with a nice swimming area. It can get quite busy if you don't get there early.
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to get to know his estranged grandfather, he learns that the man was a Nazi who killed Jews at Auschwitz. The premise for the book, stated Kerr, was, "I wanted to provoke the idea of what if you meet a nice guy, a really nice man, and what if you find out that in his past he wasn't such a nice man? How would you feel?" In 1994's "Deliver Us From Evie", 16-year-old Parr tells the story of his 18-year-old sister Evie's relationship with another girl and also of his own interest in a girl whose family rejects homosexuality as
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has more than 50 Broadway plays and musicals to his credit including , No Man's Land/Waiting for Godot in rep, Love Letters, The Country House, The Assembled Parties,"Nice Work If You Can Get It", "Venus in Fur","Wit", "Anything Goes", "A View From the Bridge", "The Pajama Game", "Seascape", "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", "Wonderful Town", "Anna in the Tropics", and revivals of "The Music Man" and "Kiss Me, Kate". His recent off-Broadway work includes Dada Woof Papa Hot (Lincoln Center Theater), Ripcord Manhattan Theater Club), "How I Learned to Drive" for 2nd Stage, "Twelfth Night", "All's Well", "Measure for Measure"
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Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade", about skilled Chinese employees of foreign firms in Shanghai and other Yangtze Delta cities. The latter book, written on the ground in China, is a frank alternative to Thomas Friedman's pro-outsourcing views on corporate globalisation. In 2009, Ross published "Nice Work if You Can Get it: Life and Labor in Precarious Times", an analysis of changing patterns in the nature of creative work and contingent employment. In several of his books, Ross has pioneered a method he calls Scholarly Reporting, which is a blend of ethnography and investigative journalism.
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Laughed" and "Nice Work If You can Get It" into the score. The pit orchestra included "Red" Nichols, Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and Jack Teagarden. Roger Edens was the onstage pianist for Ethel Merman. It was conducted on opening night by George Gershwin himself. The 1953 biopic “The Glenn Miller Story” recreated the “I’m Biding My Time” scene, with Miller (Stewart) playing trombone in the orchestra. It was said by one critic to be "fresh, ingenious...a rich delight". The 1932 RKO Radio Pictures production was very unlike the stage play except for its score. The film
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Engel. The musical opened in the UK at the Chichester Festival Theatre and then opened in the West End at the Piccadilly Theatre in February 2002, starring Janie Dee as Edythe Herbert and Tim Flavin as Captain Billy Buck Chandler, with direction by Loveday Ingram and choreography by Craig Revel Horwood. Cabaret singer and Gershwin historian Michael Feinstein served as the musical consultant for the project. An extensive review of the show's creation can be found in his book "Nice Work If You Can Get It" in a chapter entitled "My One and Only Tommy Tune Fling." He noted in
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her insecurities get the best of her" on the track. "Billboard" writer Leslie Richin wrote that it "served as a cautionary tale for admirers who might one day have a chance with the budding starlet. Bottom line: liars and cheaters need not apply." In the song's opening lines, Lopez states: "Now if I gave you me, this is how it's got to be / First of all I won't take you cheatin' on me / Tell me who can I trust if I can't trust in you / And I refuse to let you play me for a fool." In
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28, 2009. He returned to the Broadway stage in Spring 2012, to star in the musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It", directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. Broderick met actress Sarah Jessica Parker through her brother. The couple married on May 19, 1997, in a civil ceremony in a historic deconsecrated synagogue on the Lower East Side. Although Broderick considers himself culturally Jewish, the ceremony was performed by his sister, Janet Broderick Kraft, an Episcopal priest. Parker and Broderick have a son, James Wilkie Broderick, born October, 2002. In April 2009, it was confirmed that Broderick and Parker
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Award for Best Musical. It ran at the Shubert Theatre for three years (1,165 performances) and continues in touring production all over the country. DiPietro won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score, and the show also received the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical. "Nice Work If You Can Get It", a re-imagining of a Gershwin musical, starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara, opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre in 2012. The show, and DiPietro's book, were nominated for Tony Awards in 2012, and DiPietro won the Drama Desk Award for Best Book of
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any idea as valid simply because I'd thought of it. I thought of it and I kept it, and what came next was what I thought of next. I don't believe Jimmy meant to absolve me of all responsibility for my work, but I got the impression that wild intuitive guessing was all I had to do to make art. I never threw anything away. I remember distinctly Jimmy's saying, "If you don't like it now, you can get to like it. If you can't get to like it, who says you have to like it?" The point of it
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a nice day". The phrase can have passive–aggressive connotations, and can be caustically used to end transactions with abusive customers. The speaker may also use the phrase ironically, in either a purposeful or unintentional manner. Roly Sussex of "The Courier-Mail" wrote that "have a nice day" can sound "a touch brusque" in comparison with "you have a nice day". Deeming the word "you" as moderating the imperative, Sussex stated that the word "you" causes the phrase to seem like a mixture of a command and a hope. He wrote that using "you" in imperatives is more common with people under
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Elliott said it was "not a good day, nope, not a good day" and that he "can’t do dumb stuff and expect to win this thing. When you do dumb stuff, you don’t win. I did dumb stuff today.” “It was a solid run for us,” Larson said. “We’ve been consistent as we’ve been in the last year and a half anyways, so it’s nice to be running up front and getting closer to a win. Still got some work to do, but it is nice when we can get a package like this thrown at us just a few
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replacing O'Hara. The production closed on June 15, 2013, after 27 previews and 478 regular performances. A US national tour of the musical started September 2, 2014 at the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, and ran, with an extended break for the winter holidays, until March 22, 2015. It finished at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California. The Australian premiere, a non-replica production directed by Roger Hodgman for The Production Company, played at the State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne from August 15 to 23, 2015. It featured Rohan Browne, Esther Hannaford, Christie Whelan-Browne,
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listed. The featuring of an actual waterboarding scene drew criticism from "Guardian" columnist Zoe Williams, who wrote "it's really unpleasant, [Armitage] concurred. 'I only lasted five to 10 seconds, and the sound of my voice crying out to stop isn't me acting.' Pal, that's nice that you're not showing off but this is all wrong and despicable: it's like locking yourself and 10 friends into a loo on a commuter train, to see what it would be like on the train to Auschwitz. If you can make it stop whenever you like, you're learning nothing and kicking people in the
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and he made it so nice for the actors. It's so nice to have an actor or an ex-actor directing you, because they get it, you know?" Famed stuntman Dar Robinson played the albino hit-man, Moke. His character's death scene, falling from the side of a building while firing a gun, uses Robinson's invention, a decelerator, so cameras could film from above without a visible airbag below (a scattering crowd of people below can also be seen in this shot). This was Robinson's first and last acting break (as opposed to pure stunt work). In 1986 he died in an
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the previous evening at Kennedy Center in honor of Barbara Cook. She starred on Broadway as Billie Bendix in "Nice Work If You Can Get It" from April 2012 to March 2013 and received her fourth Tony Award nomination. In 2012, at the New Year's Eve concert, "Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch", at Lincoln Center, she sang "At the Ballet", from "A Chorus Line", along with Audra McDonald and Megan Hilty. In 2013, she played the lead character of Julie in the staged concert of "Carousel" presented by the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall. From January to May 2014, she
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Varèse Sarabande studio recording of the 1965 musical "Drat! The Cat!". Kaye reads the audiobooks of Sue Grafton's "Kinsey Millhone" series. Kaye lives in New Jersey with her husband, David Green, in an apartment overlooking Manhattan. Judy Kaye Judy Kaye (born October 11, 1948) is an American singer and actress. She has appeared in stage musicals, plays, and operas. Kaye has been in long runs on Broadway in the musicals "The Phantom of the Opera", "Ragtime", "Mamma Mia!", and "Nice Work If You Can Get It". Kaye was born in Phoenix, Arizona, the daughter of Shirley Edith (née Silverman) and
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"Tales of the City" at the American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, California, from May through July 2011, as Anna Madrigal. She starred in the musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It", which opened on Broadway in April 2012. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for this role. In September 2014, she joined the Broadway production of "Cinderella" as the Fairy Godmother and remained with the show till its final performance on January 3, 2015. From February to October 2016, Kaye performed the role of Madame Morrible in the Broadway production of "Wicked".
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Judy Kaye Judy Kaye (born October 11, 1948) is an American singer and actress. She has appeared in stage musicals, plays, and operas. Kaye has been in long runs on Broadway in the musicals "The Phantom of the Opera", "Ragtime", "Mamma Mia!", and "Nice Work If You Can Get It". Kaye was born in Phoenix, Arizona, the daughter of Shirley Edith (née Silverman) and Jerome Joseph Kaye, a physician. She attended UCLA, studying drama and voice. "Her voice spans three octaves. She started out as a mezzo and now sings all the way up to an E natural...but basically she
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Direction of a Musical and Best Choreography, and won for Best Choreography. She was the director and choreographer of the Broadway revival of "Pajama Game" which opened in February 2006 and which was the Broadway acting debut of Harry Connick Jr.. Marshall directed and choreographed a Broadway revival of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" beginning in April 2011, with Sutton Foster starring as Reno Sweeney. Marshall was nominated for the Tony Award for both directing and choreography and won for choreography. She was the director and choreographer of the musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It" which opened on Broadway
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respectively, "Ella Loves Cole" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It". A later collection devoted to a single composer was released during her time with Pablo Records, "Ella Abraça Jobim", featuring the songs of Antônio Carlos Jobim. While recording the Song Books and the occasional studio album, Fitzgerald toured 40 to 45 weeks per year in the United States and internationally, under the tutelage of Norman Granz. Granz helped solidify her position as one of the leading live jazz performers. In 1961 Fitzgerald bought a house in the Klampenborg district of Copenhagen, Denmark, after she began a relationship with
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in several episodes of "" as the NYPD Chief of Detectives Muldrew. Under his full name of "Conrad John Schuck," he opened in the role of Daddy Warbucks in the Broadway revival of "Annie" in December 2006, and toured nationally in the role. He later appeared in the films "Holy Matrimony" and "String of the Kite". In 2013, he appeared as Senator Max Evergreen in "Nice Work If You Can Get It". Most recently, Schuck joined the cast of writer/director Chris Blake's (a.k.a. Christopher Blake Johnson) indie horror film, "All Light Will End". Schuck married actress Susan Bay, with whom
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in 1992. She produced the 2013 film "", which garnered Academy Award nominations for its stars, Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Doumanian has been producer on many Broadway productions, including "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune", "Amour", "Jumpers", "Democracy", the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning "", "Mary Stuart", "Superior Donuts", Tony Award-winning "Book of Mormon", "The Motherfucker with the Hat", "The House of Blue Leaves", "The Mountaintop", the Tony Award-winning 2012 revival of "Death of a Salesman", "Nice Work If You Can Get It", and "The Testament of Mary". Off Broadway, Doumanian produced David Cromer's acclaimed production of
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and Frankie". She was honored with a Woman of Achievement Award from the Women's Project Theater in 2009. In 2010, she appeared in London, playing psychic Helga ten Dorp in "Deathtrap" at the Noël Coward Theatre in the West End. She was recently seen on Broadway in "Good People" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It". In April 2018, Parsons returned to television reprising her role as Beverly Harris, mother of Roseanne Barr's title character, in season 10, episode 5 of "Roseanne". Parsons married author Richard Gehman in 1953. They had twin daughters, reporter Abbie and actress Martha Gehman
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Bill Elliott (musician) Bill Elliott (born William F. Elliott; October 2, 1951) is an American pianist, bandleader, Hollywood composer and Broadway orchestrator. In 2015 he won a Tony Award for best orchestration for the Broadway musical, "An American in Paris". In 2012 he was nominated for both Tony and Grammy awards for Broadway's "Nice Work if You Can Get It". Elliott won Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations in 2017 for the Broadway Musical "Bandstand". Elliott began as a Los Angeles studio musician, recording with artists such as Stevie Nicks, Smokey Robinson, Donna Summer, Bette Midler and others. In his
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original Australian production of "Hairspray" in 2011. She then originated the role of Ann Darrow in Global Creatures' big-budget musical "King Kong" at the Regent Theatre, Melbourne in 2013. In 2014 and 2015, she performed in a revival of Nick Enright and Max Lambert's musical "Miracle City" at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney, "The 3 Mikados" with Colin Lane and David Collins for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Billie Bendix in "Nice Work If You Can Get It" for The Production Company, and Skurry in "Last Man Standing" for the Melbourne Theatre Company. In 2016, Hannaford played the leading role
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seasons and has three personal Tony Awards. He received a Tony as producer when Porgy and Bess won for Best Musical Revival in 2012. In 2013 Brunish received a second Tony Award as a producer of the revival of Pippin. He also was the recipient of the 2013 Drama Desk Award, Drama League Award and the Outer Critic's Circle Award for the same show and those same awards for Come From Away in 2017. In 2018 Brunish received his third Tony for Once on This Island. Corey helped to produce the soundtrack for Nice Work If you Can Get It.
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Buddy Freitag Edgar "Buddy" Freitag (1932 – May 30, 2012) was an American Broadway theatre producer, especially from 2007 to 2012. Freitag produced numerous Broadway musicals and shows in partnership with his wife, producer Barbara Freitag. His most recent credits included the 2011 Broadway revival of "Porgy and Bess", "Nice Work If You Can Get It" in 2012, "End of the Rainbow" in 2012, and Memphis in 2009. Freitag earned a bachelor's degree from Baruch College in 1953. He served in the United States Army for two years following his graduation from Baruch. Freitag then launched a long career in
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for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical and the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Mueller portrayed Cinderella in a 2012 Public Theater production of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" at the Delacorte Theater. Mueller next was cast in the role of Helena Landless / Miss Janet Conover in Roundabout Theatre Company's 2012 revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She then took over the role of Billie Bendix in "Nice Work If You Can Get It", from March 29, 2013 until the show closed on June
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taxpayer-funded trade union officials have become known as "Pilgrims", with an Early Day Motion being introduced to the House of Commons condemning such practices. David Morris MP has raised the issue with the Health Secretary, while Alok Sharma MP asked a question of the Prime Minister. David Cameron responded that "It's nice work if you can get it!" Sharma has also sent Freedom of Information requests to all local councils to uncover how many "Pilgrims" are employed in local government, with the replies indicating at least £35m a year being spent, Calling herself a 'peace and love' activist, the "Daily
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and Jimmy Winter in "Nice Work If You Can Get It". He appeared as a Protean in the 2012 production of "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum" at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne. He was "The Leading Player" in "Pippin" for "Magnormos". In the 2013 national tour, he played the role of "Gregory Gardner" in "A Chorus Line" and stepped up to play the role of "Zach" in Singapore. In 2014, he was cast by Baz Luhrmann in "Strictly Ballroom" in the role of "Ken Railings" and he also understudied and performed the lead role of
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Recently her play "Beds" was produced in Los Angeles by the 'Secret Rose Theatre' starring Paige Howard, and subsequently at Miami, Florida's nationally recognized summer play festival. Most recently Cinoman's play, "Love and Class in Connecticut" has been directed by Karen Lynn Carpenter, Interim Artistic Director of the William Inge Theatre Festival and director of Drama Desk winning play, "Love, Loss and What I Wore" by Nora Ephron. The play is being developed for a Broadway production currently led by Douglas Denoff (Nice Work if you Can Get It, Handle With Care.) Additionally, Cinoman's play "All Me, All the Time"
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Pack is Back Phantom Patchogue Theatre Irving Berlin's White Christmas The Rat Pack is Back: New Year's Eve 2015 Gateway Playhouse Rock of Ages Nice Work If You Can Get It Sister Act Saturday Night Fever Legends In Concert Patchogue Theatre Billy Elliot Cinderella 2016 Gateway Playhouse Anything Goes Million Dollar Quartet Ain't Misbehavin' The Rocky Horror Show Legends In Concert Patchogue Theatre Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Holiday Show on Ice 2017 Gateway Playhouse Rent Swing! On the Town Little Shop of Horrors Legends In Concert Patchogue Theatre Mamma Mia! The Rat Pack is Back Gateway Playhouse Gateway Playhouse
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of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller, playing the role of Stanley. He starred on Broadway in the musical comedy "Nice Work if You Can Get It" costarring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara. He starred in "The Book of Mormon" on Broadway as Mafala Hatimbi succeeding Michael Potts. Stanley Wayne Mathis Stanley Wayne Mathis (born December 1, 1955) is an African American actor, singer, and dancer. He played the character Schroeder in the 1999 revival of Clark Gesner's "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown". Mathis played Paul in the revival of "Kiss Me, Kate". Additional Broadway credits include the revival of
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of the Temptations [Original, Musical] Anastasia [Original, Musical] An American in Paris [Original, Musical] Hedwig and the Angry Inch [Original, Musical] Of Mice and Men [Revival, Play] Beautiful: The Carole King Musical [Original, Musical] Ann [Original, Play] Nice Work If You Can Get It [Original, Musical] Dead Accounts [Original, Play] One Man, Two Guvnors [Original, Play] The Mountaintop [Original, Play] War Horse [Original, Play] La Cage Aux Folles [Revival, Musical] A Little Night Music [Revival, Musical] Superior Donuts [Original, Play] Burn the Floor [Dance] The Norman Conquests [Revival, Play, Comedy] The 39 Steps [Original, Play, Comedy] Coram Boy [Original, Play,
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death, he was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. Pakledinaz received a BFA from Wayne State University and an MFA (1975) from the University of Michigan. Martin Pakledinaz Martin Pakledinaz (September 1, 1953 – July 8, 2012) was an American costume designer for stage and film. He won his Tony Awards for designing the costumes for "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and the 2000 revival of "Kiss Me, Kate", which also earned him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design. His most recent costume designs were for the Broadway shows "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (2012);
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Martin Pakledinaz Martin Pakledinaz (September 1, 1953 – July 8, 2012) was an American costume designer for stage and film. He won his Tony Awards for designing the costumes for "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and the 2000 revival of "Kiss Me, Kate", which also earned him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design. His most recent costume designs were for the Broadway shows "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (2012); "Man and Boy" (revival, 2011); "Master Class" (revival 2011) and "The Normal Heart". He worked on the 1995 production of "Holiday" at the Circle in the Square Theatre. He
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workshop was held in November 2007, featuring Harry Connick, Jr. and Erin Dilly. At that time, the show was titled "Heaven on Earth". The musical was first scheduled to debut at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, running from December 2008 through January 2009. The production was expected to open on Broadway in Spring 2009, with Harry Connick, Jr. However, in 2008 it was announced that the musical was "officially postponed", due to a change in the producing team; Connick ultimately left the project. Preview performances began on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on March 29, 2012 with the opening on
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Good Times (Hoodoo Gurus song) "Good Times" was a single by iconic Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was released on EMI on 13 July, 1987; and was written by Dave Faulkner. Backing vocals were supplied by touring mates The Bangles. Its B-side was: "Hell for Leather (live)" and was also written by Faulkner. "Brad was off gallivanting in L.A. to supervise the recording of the Bangles harmonies on "Good Times" (nice work if you can get it!). We had toured with them the previous year promoting "Mars Needs Guitars!" and we watched then go to No. 1 with "Manic
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force's website; Brunstrom was tasered for 1.5 seconds, and swore as he lost control of his body. Afterwards he described the event as "Not pleasant" and warned "I very strongly advise you, if faced by an officer and a Taser, that you follow the instructions of the nice police officer, because you will not enjoy the consequences of disobedience.". Wanting to get in to North Wales Police headquarters to work at a weekend, and finding that his key fob did not work, Brunstrom broke in to his headquarters, scaling scaffolding attached to the building and climbing through a window. It
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Women (FEDSAW). Baard was actively involved in 1955 in the drafting on the Freedom Charter and was one of the leaders of the Women's march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 9 August 1956 in protest against the pass laws. “A pass is this little book you must get when you are 16 and it says where you can work, and where you can be, and if you have got work. You can't get a job without this book. And you can only get a job where they stamp your pass to say 'Johannesburg' or 'Pretoria' and so on.
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want to be a doctor and don’t want to work for it, you can get a skill download from Titan with a brain augmentation and have it instantly, the only cost is that you are now a part of Titan until your time-debt has been paid. You want to be a marathon runner, get new legs, etc. The catch is that these upgrades need servicing and the only people who can service them are the Titan technicians, the only currencies accepted are time-contracts. The older you are, the less time you have to spend. If you have a debt when
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shoot, Victoria Beckham commented: "It took such a long time to film the 'Mama' video, but it was nice that our mums were there and could see what we're doing. It's good, because they were actually knackered at the end of the day and I said to my mum: 'Ha! Now you know how I feel every day!" Geri Halliwell commented: "I found it a bit bizarre bringing my mum to work with me on the 'Mama' video. You know: 'This is what I do—come and do it, too.' If you worked in Sainsbury's, you wouldn't get your mum to
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blinded World War I veterans were being trained to work with guide dogs. Frank was one of many people who wrote to her asking where he could get such a dog. Frank wrote: "Is what you say really true? If so, I want one of those dogs! And I am not alone. Thousands of blind like me abhor being dependent on others. Help me and I will help them. Train me and I will bring back my dog and show people here how a blind man can be absolutely on his own. We can then set up an instruction center
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something of a rehash of the first game, I still cannot help enjoying it. The concept is brilliant and that's timeless. I think if you played the first game extensively, you may get less out of Crazy Penguin Catapult 2 than a newcomer. However, it's still fun as all get-out." AppCrave wrote "Those of you who adored Crazy Penguin Catapult will surely appreciate Crazy Penguin Catapult 2 and those who have never played can check out a lite version of either for free. In some cases, familiarity breeds contempt, but its hard to hate either version of Crazy Penguins. You
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"The Times Of India" gave it 2.5/5 and stated that "If you can enjoy the ridiculous, you will enjoy this. As far as performances are concerned, Naresh delivers quite well and Karthika's fights and dance are impressive. If you ignore some scenes that create confusion, it's an entertaining movie". Great Andhra wrote: "Not So Funny, Allari Naresh who has been struggling to get a hit for a very long time will have to wait longer". 123Telugu wrote: "On the whole, Brother of Bommali has the right mix of interesting story and some funny comedy. Complete first half, Naresh and Karthika’s
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Asher Lev" by Aaron Posner received the John Gassner Award. The Special Achievement Award was presented to the Irish Repertory Theatre. The nominees included nine nominations for the new musical "Nice Work If You Can Get It", the most of any production, with the musicals "Newsies" and "Once" each receiving seven nominations and the revival of "Follies" receiving five. The Public Theater received an honorary award "on its 50th anniversary presenting free theatre at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park." Winners include "One Man, Two Guvnors" as Outstanding New Broadway Play, "Once" as Outstanding New Broadway Musical, "Sons of the
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for "Johnny Bravo"'s mother Bunny Bravo in the animated cartoon series. She was the first voice of Jay's (Jon Lovitz)'s ex-wife Ardeth on "The Critic". She made an appearance on "The Smurfs" as Scruple, an apprentice of Gargamel, opposite Paul Winchell. After ill health forced Valerie Harper to bow out of the production of "Nice Work if You Can Get It" at the Ogunquit Playhouse (Maine), Vaccaro took over the role of Millicent Winter for the remaining performances of the limited run from August 4–15, 2015. Brenda Vaccaro Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is an American stage, television,
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Playhouse in La Jolla, California. The musical ran at La Jolla from February 15 through March 27, 2011, with Thompson in the role of Sheryl Hoover. She did not play in the Off-Broadway production (which ran in November to December 2013). Thompson starred as Eileen Evergreen in the musical "Nice Work if You Can Get It", which opened on Broadway in spring 2012 at the Imperial Theatre. Thompson currently stars in the role as Cynthia Murphy in the Broadway production of "Dear Evan Hansen" at the Music Box Theatre. Thompson has a husband, John, and a son, Thomas. She graduated
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York. Tracks 1-8." "September 1953, New York. Tracks 9-16." The 1947 session was originally recorded for De Luxe Records but not released. Two years later Roost released the session in a series of four 78s: "Somebody Loves Me c/w Bud's Bubble" (Roost 509), "I'll Remember April c/w Off Minor" (Roost 513), "Indiana c/w Everything Happens to Me" (Roost 518), and "I Should Care c/w Nice Work If You Can Get It" (Roost 521), and released all 8 tracks as a 10" LP in 1951. The 1953 session was released directly as a 10" LP. Bud Powell Trio Bud Powell Trio
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