Nice Work is the second Gershwin show on Broadway at the moment; Porgy and Bess, by the brothers and Dubose and Dorothy Heyward, and Suzan-Lori Parks and Diedre L. Murray, is playing the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
The Joe DiPietro-penned Nice Work plot was inspired by the Gershwin brothers' tuneful 1926 musical Oh, Kay!, which premiered at the same theatre where Nice Work has set up shop — the Imperial. The songs "Do, Do, Do" and "Someone to Watch Over Me" are hold-overs from that score. DiPietrio (Memphis) told Playbill.com that in creating the show at the invitation of the Gershwin estate, he and director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall were told he could use any song they wished from the songwriters' catalog — except numbers from Porgy and Bess.
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