Nice Work If You Can Get It Musical Album Lyrics
Nice Work If You Can Get It Musical Lyrics
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Sweet and Lowdown
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Nice Work If You Can Get It (Reprise)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Demon Rum
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Someone to Watch Over Me
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Delishious
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Ive Got to Be There
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Treat Me Rough
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Lets Call the Whole Thing Off
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Do It Again
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - S Wonderful
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Fascinating Rhythm
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Lady Be Good
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - But Not for Me
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - By Strauss
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Sweet and Lowdown (Reprise)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Do Do Do
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Hangin Around With You
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Looking for a Boy
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Blah Blah Blah
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (Reprise)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Will You Remember Me?
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - I've Got to Be There (Reprise)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Ive Got a Crush on You
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Blah, Blah, Blah (Reprise)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Looking for a Boy (Reprise)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Delishious (Reprise)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - Someone to Watch Over Me (Reprise)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical - They All Laughed
Sweet and Lowdown
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
[Cookie] (simultaneously)
My advice is,
Grab a cab and go
Where the band is playing;
Milk and honey flow
Everyone is saying:
"Blow, that sweet and low-down"!
Low-down!
Four quarter!
Four-quarter!
Four-quarter!
Four-quarter!
Four-quarter time!
By jo, by jing!
Zing!
Ha-cha-cha-cha-cha!
Ha-cha-cha-cha!
Go on and blow,
That sweet and lowdown
Lowdown, lowdown, lowdown, lowdown, lowdown
Grab a cab and go
Where the band is playing;
Milk and honey flow
Everyone is saying!
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Nice Work If You Can Get It
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy) and Kelli O'Hara (Billie)
The man who only lives for making money
Lives a life that isn't necessarily sunny
Likewise the man who works for fame
There's no guarantee that time won't erase his name
The fact is, the only work that really brings enjoyment
Is the kind that is for girl and boy meant
Fall in love and you won't regret it
That's the best work of all, if you can get it.
Holding hands at midnight
'neath a starry sky
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try.
Strolling with the one girl
Sighing sigh after sigh
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
It's nice work if you can get it
And if you get it, won't you tell me how?
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try.
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
It's nice work if you can get it
And if you get it, won't you tell me how?
The man who only lives for making money
Lives a life that isn't necessarily sunny
Likewise the man who works for fame
There's no guarantee that time won't erase his name
The fact is, the only work that really brings enjoyment
Is the kind that is for girl and boy meant
Fall in love and you won't regret it
That's the best work of all, if you can get it.
Holding hands at midnight
'neath a starry sky
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try.
Strolling with the one girl
Sighing sigh after sigh
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more?
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
It's nice work if you can get it
And if you get it, won't you tell me how?
Nice work if you can get it
And you can get it if you try.
Loving one who loves you
And then taking that vow
It's nice work if you can get it
And if you get it, won't you tell me how?
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Nice Work If You Can Get It (Reprise)
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
BILLIE:
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become
Who could ask for anything more
Nice work if you can get it
And if you get it won't you tell me how?
Just imagine someone
Waiting at the cottage door
Where two hearts become
Who could ask for anything more
Nice work if you can get it
And if you get it won't you tell me how?
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Demon Rum
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Judy Kaye and Company)
Demon rum,
We'll efface you!
Demon rum,
You disgrace, you!
You're an evil too many men crave!
Devil's brew!
Satan's nectar!
Soon shall you
Be a specter!
For we're digging your liquory grave!
Down with sin
Alcohol we'll throttle!
When we win
The battle of the bottle!
Demon rum,
We'll efface you!
Demon rum,
You disgrace, you!
You're an evil too many men crave!
Devil's brew!
Satan's nectar!
Soon shall you
Be a specter!
For we're digging your liquory grave!
Down with sin
Alcohol we'll throttle!
When we win
The battle of the bottle!
Demon rum
You're a goner!
Demon rum,
On my honor --
Lips that taste of wine
Shall never touch mine!
Down with demon rum!
Demon rum,
We'll efface you!
Demon rum,
You disgrace, you!
You're an evil too many men crave!
Devil's brew!
Satan's nectar!
Soon shall you
Be a specter!
For we're digging your liquory grave!
Down with sin
Alcohol we'll throttle!
When we win
The battle of the bottle!
Demon rum,
We'll efface you!
Demon rum,
You disgrace, you!
You're an evil too many men crave!
Devil's brew!
Satan's nectar!
Soon shall you
Be a specter!
For we're digging your liquory grave!
Down with sin
Alcohol we'll throttle!
When we win
The battle of the bottle!
Demon rum
You're a goner!
Demon rum,
On my honor --
Lips that taste of wine
Shall never touch mine!
Down with demon rum!
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Someone to Watch Over Me
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy) and Kelli O'Hara (Billie)
[Jimmy]
And this world would be like heaven if she'd,
followed my lead.
[Billie]
Oh how I need,
[Simultaneously]
Someone to watch over me,
Someone to watch over me.
Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical Someone to Watch Over Me (Reprise) lyrics
[Jimmy]
And this world would be like heaven if she'd,
followed my lead.
[Billie]
Oh how I need,
[Simultaneously]
Someone to watch over me,
Someone to watch over me.
Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical Someone to Watch Over Me (Reprise) lyrics
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Delishious
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Jennifer Laura Thompson)
What can I say
To sing my praise of you?
I must reveal the things I feel.
What can I say
Each lovely phase of you
Just seems to baffle my descriptive powers
Four-and-twenty hours of ev'ry day
What can I say?
What is the thing I'd love to sing?
They've said you're marvelous
They've said you're wonderful;
And yet that's not it.
Now let me see; I think I've got it!
I'm so delishious
And so caprishious;
I grow ambishious
To have you care for me.
In that connecshion,
You're my selecshion
For true affecshion
For all the time to be.
Oh, he's had one, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten girls before;
But now there's one, and I'm the one
The one he does adore
'Cause I'm so delishious
And so caprishious;
If I'm repetishious,
It's cause I'm so delishious.
[Chorus]
You're so delishious
And so caprishious;
I grow ambishious
To have you care for me.
In that connecshion,
You're my selecshion
For true affecshion
For all the time to be.
Oh, he's had one, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten girls before;
But now there's one, and I'm the one
The one he does adore
'Cause you're delishious
And so caprishious;
If I'm repetishious,
It's cause I'm so delishious!
What can I say
To sing my praise of you?
I must reveal the things I feel.
What can I say
Each lovely phase of you
Just seems to baffle my descriptive powers
Four-and-twenty hours of ev'ry day
What can I say?
What is the thing I'd love to sing?
They've said you're marvelous
They've said you're wonderful;
And yet that's not it.
Now let me see; I think I've got it!
I'm so delishious
And so caprishious;
I grow ambishious
To have you care for me.
In that connecshion,
You're my selecshion
For true affecshion
For all the time to be.
Oh, he's had one, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten girls before;
But now there's one, and I'm the one
The one he does adore
'Cause I'm so delishious
And so caprishious;
If I'm repetishious,
It's cause I'm so delishious.
[Chorus]
You're so delishious
And so caprishious;
I grow ambishious
To have you care for me.
In that connecshion,
You're my selecshion
For true affecshion
For all the time to be.
Oh, he's had one, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten girls before;
But now there's one, and I'm the one
The one he does adore
'Cause you're delishious
And so caprishious;
If I'm repetishious,
It's cause I'm so delishious!
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Ive Got to Be There
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Company)
When music is playing
And couples are swaying --
Say! I've got to be there!
I've got to be there!
When joy's in the making
And ceilings are shaking
And there's never a care --
I've got to be there!
Check my hat
And throw the stub away!
I'm a lamb
Who's gone astray!
When bottles are popping
And dignity's dropping
And the women are fair --
We've got to be there!
We've got to be there!
You've got to be there!
You've got to be there!
When music is playing
And couples are swaying --
Say! I've got to be there!
I've got to be there!
When joy's in the making
And ceilings are shaking
And there's never a care --
I've got to be there!
Check my hat
And throw the stub away!
I'm a lamb
Who's gone astray!
When bottles are popping
And dignity's dropping
And the women are fair --
We've got to be there!
We've got to be there!
You've got to be there!
You've got to be there!
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Treat Me Rough
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Kelli O'Hara (Billie)
Treat me rough,
Muss my hair,
Don't you dare to handle me with care.
I'm no innocent child, baby,
Keep on treating me wild.
Treat me rough,
Pinch my cheek,
Kiss and hug and squeeze me,
`Till I'm weak.
I've been pampered enough, baby
Keep on treatin' me rough
Treat me rough,
Pinch my cheek,
Kiss and hug and squeeze me,
`Till I'm weak.
I've been pampered enough, baby
Keep on treatin' me rough,
rough, rough, rough,
Keep on treatin' me-
Keep on treatin' me rough.
Treat me rough,
Muss my hair,
Don't you dare to handle me with care.
I'm no innocent child, baby,
Keep on treating me wild.
Treat me rough,
Pinch my cheek,
Kiss and hug and squeeze me,
`Till I'm weak.
I've been pampered enough, baby
Keep on treatin' me rough
Treat me rough,
Pinch my cheek,
Kiss and hug and squeeze me,
`Till I'm weak.
I've been pampered enough, baby
Keep on treatin' me rough,
rough, rough, rough,
Keep on treatin' me-
Keep on treatin' me rough.
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Lets Call the Whole Thing Off
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy), Kelli O'Hara (Billie), and Stanley Wayne Mathis)
You say either and I say either,
You say neither and I say neither
Either, either
Neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off.
You like potato and I like... potahto?
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto,
Tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off
But oh, if we call the whole thing off
Then we must part;
And oh, if we ever part, then that might break my heart.
So if you like pajamas and I like pajahmas,
I'll wear pajamas and give up pajahmas;
For we know we need each other so we
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.
She says laughter and you say laughter
You say after and he says aufter
Laughter, laughter
After aufter
Let's call the whole thing off.
I like vanilla and you like vanella
You sarsaparilla, and I sarsaparella
Vanilla, vanella
Chocolate strawberry
Let's call the whole thing off.
But oh if you call the whole thing off then you must part
And oh, if you ever part, then that might break my heart
So if you go for oysters and I go for ersters
I'll order oysters and cancel the ersters
For you know you need each other so you
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.
You say either and I say either,
You say neither and I say neither
Either, either
Neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off.
You like potato and I like... potahto?
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto,
Tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off
But oh, if we call the whole thing off
Then we must part;
And oh, if we ever part, then that might break my heart.
So if you like pajamas and I like pajahmas,
I'll wear pajamas and give up pajahmas;
For we know we need each other so we
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.
She says laughter and you say laughter
You say after and he says aufter
Laughter, laughter
After aufter
Let's call the whole thing off.
I like vanilla and you like vanella
You sarsaparilla, and I sarsaparella
Vanilla, vanella
Chocolate strawberry
Let's call the whole thing off.
But oh if you call the whole thing off then you must part
And oh, if you ever part, then that might break my heart
So if you go for oysters and I go for ersters
I'll order oysters and cancel the ersters
For you know you need each other so you
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.
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Do It Again
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
JEANNIE:
Tell me tell me,
what did ya do to me.
DUKE:
Nothin'!
JEANNIE:
I just got a thrill,
that was new to me.
When your two lips,
were pressed to mine.
DUKE:
No! But, you... YOU!
JEANNIE:
When you held me,
I wasn't snugglin'.
You should know,
I really was strugglin'.
DUKE: (whisper)
No you weren't!
JEANNIE:
I've only met you,
and I shouldn't let you.
But oooooh,
do it again.
DUKE:
Do what again?
JEANNIE:
I may say no, no, no, no, no,
but, do it again.
DUKE:
Someone help me?
JEANNIE:
My lips just ache,
to have you take,
the kiss that waiting for you.
You know if you do,
You...
Won't regret it,
come and get it.
Oooooh,
no one is near.
I may cry oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
but no one will hear.
Mama may scold me,
'cuz she told me it is naughty, but then.
Oh do it again,
please do it again.
Boo boo be do do,
Ba boo ba boo ba boo,
Boo boo boo ooooooh,
Woo! Oh! Mmmmm!
Mmm mmm mmm mmm!
You know if you do,
You won't regret it,
Come and get it!
DUKE:
Oh...Okay...
Oh...
Oooooh! Do it again!
JEANNIE:
Sing it Dukey!
DUKE:
I may say no, no, no, no, no,
but, do it again.
JEANNIE:
Mama may scold me,
'cuz she told me it is naughty, but then.
BOTH:
Oh do it again,
Please do it again!
JEANNIE:
How big's your kingdom?
DUKE:
Its huge!
Nice Work If You Can Get It musical Do It Again Lyrics
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S Wonderful
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy) and Kelli O'Hara (Billie)
Life has just begun;
Jack has found his Jill;
Don't know what you've done,
But I'm all a-thrill.
How can words express
Your divine appeal?
You can never guess
All the love I feel.
From now on, lady, I insist,
For me no other girls exist.
'S wonderful! 'S marvelous --
You should care for me!
'S awful nice! 'S paradise --
'S what I love to see!
You've made my life so glamorous,
You can't blame me for feeling amorous.
Oh, 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous --
That you should care for me!
Don't mind telling you
In my humble fash
That you thrill me through
With a tender pash.
When you said you care
'Magine my emosh;
I swore, then and there,
Permanent devosh.
You made all other boys seem blah;
Just you alone filled me with ahh!
Oh, 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous --
You should care for me!
'S awful nice! 'S paradise!
'S what I love to see!
My dear, it's four-leaf clover time
From now on my heart's working overtime
Oh! 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!
You've made my life so glamorous,
You can't blame me for feeling amorous.
'S wonderful! 'S marvelous --
That you should care for--
Life has just begun;
Jack has found his Jill;
Don't know what you've done,
But I'm all a-thrill.
How can words express
Your divine appeal?
You can never guess
All the love I feel.
From now on, lady, I insist,
For me no other girls exist.
'S wonderful! 'S marvelous --
You should care for me!
'S awful nice! 'S paradise --
'S what I love to see!
You've made my life so glamorous,
You can't blame me for feeling amorous.
Oh, 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous --
That you should care for me!
Don't mind telling you
In my humble fash
That you thrill me through
With a tender pash.
When you said you care
'Magine my emosh;
I swore, then and there,
Permanent devosh.
You made all other boys seem blah;
Just you alone filled me with ahh!
Oh, 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous --
You should care for me!
'S awful nice! 'S paradise!
'S what I love to see!
My dear, it's four-leaf clover time
From now on my heart's working overtime
Oh! 'S wonderful! 'S marvelous!
That you should care for me!
You've made my life so glamorous,
You can't blame me for feeling amorous.
'S wonderful! 'S marvelous --
That you should care for--
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Fascinating Rhythm
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy), Michael McGrath (Cookie)
Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm
That pit-a-pats through my brain;
So darn persistent
The day isn't distant
When it'll drive me insane.
Comes in the morning
Without any warning,
And hangs around me all day.
Someday I'll sneak up to it
And then I'll speak up to it
I hope it listens when I say;
Fascinating rhythm
You've got me on the go!
Fascinating rhythm,
I'm all a-quiver.
What a mess you're making
The neighbors want to know
Why I'm always shaking
Just like a flivver.
Each morning I get up with the sun --
Start a-hopping
Never stopping --
To find at night no work has been done.
I know that
Once it didn't matter --
But now you're doing wrong;
When you start to patter
I'm so unhappy.
Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
Somewhere far away off --
And make it snappy!
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be!
Fascinating rhythm
Oh won't you stop picking on me?
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be!
Fascinating rhythm
Oh won't you stop picking on me?
Rhythm!
It's got that rhythm!
It's got that rhythm!
It's got that rhythm!
Got a little rhythm, a rhythm, a rhythm
That pit-a-pats through my brain;
So darn persistent
The day isn't distant
When it'll drive me insane.
Comes in the morning
Without any warning,
And hangs around me all day.
Someday I'll sneak up to it
And then I'll speak up to it
I hope it listens when I say;
Fascinating rhythm
You've got me on the go!
Fascinating rhythm,
I'm all a-quiver.
What a mess you're making
The neighbors want to know
Why I'm always shaking
Just like a flivver.
Each morning I get up with the sun --
Start a-hopping
Never stopping --
To find at night no work has been done.
I know that
Once it didn't matter --
But now you're doing wrong;
When you start to patter
I'm so unhappy.
Won't you take a day off?
Decide to run along
Somewhere far away off --
And make it snappy!
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be!
Fascinating rhythm
Oh won't you stop picking on me?
Oh, how I long to be the man I used to be!
Fascinating rhythm
Oh won't you stop picking on me?
Rhythm!
It's got that rhythm!
It's got that rhythm!
It's got that rhythm!
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Lady Be Good
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Music by George and Ira Gershwin)
Listen to my tale of woe,
it's terribly sad but true,
All dressed up, no place to go
Each ev'ning I'm awf'ly blue.
I must win some handsome guy
Can't go on like this,
I could blossom out I know,
With somebody just like you. So...
Oh, sweet and lovely lady, be good
Oh, lady, be good to me
I am so awf'ly misunderstood
So lady, be good to me
Oh, please have some pity
I'm all alone in this big city
I tell you I'm just a lonesome babe in the wood,
So lady be good to me.
Oh, please have some pity
I'm all alone in this big city
I tell you I'm just a lonesome babe in the wood,
So lady be good to me.
Oh lady be good to me.
Nice Work If You Can Get It musical Lady Be Good Lyrics
Listen to my tale of woe,
it's terribly sad but true,
All dressed up, no place to go
Each ev'ning I'm awf'ly blue.
I must win some handsome guy
Can't go on like this,
I could blossom out I know,
With somebody just like you. So...
Oh, sweet and lovely lady, be good
Oh, lady, be good to me
I am so awf'ly misunderstood
So lady, be good to me
Oh, please have some pity
I'm all alone in this big city
I tell you I'm just a lonesome babe in the wood,
So lady be good to me.
Oh, please have some pity
I'm all alone in this big city
I tell you I'm just a lonesome babe in the wood,
So lady be good to me.
Oh lady be good to me.
Nice Work If You Can Get It musical Lady Be Good Lyrics
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But Not for Me
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Kelli O'Hara (Billie)
Old Man Sunshine, listen, you,
Never tell me dreams come true,
Just try it, and I'll start a riot,
Beatrice Fairfax don't you dare,
Ever tell me he will care,
I'm certain, It's the final curtain.
Don't want to hear from and cheerful Pollyannas,
Who'll tell you fate supplies a mate, it's all bananas.
They're writing songs of love, but not for me,
A lucky star's above, but not for me,
With love to lead the way,
I found more clouds of grey,
Than any Russian play could guarantee.
I was a fool to fall, and get that way,
Hi ho! Alas! And also Lack-a-day!
Although I can't dismiss,
The memory of his kiss,
I guess he's not for me.
I know that love's a game,
I'm puzzled just the same,
Was I the moth or flame?
I'm all at sea.
It started off so swell,
This "let's pretend",
It all began so well,
But what an end.
The climax of the plot,
Should be the marriage knot,
But there's no knot for me.
Old Man Sunshine, listen, you,
Never tell me dreams come true,
Just try it, and I'll start a riot,
Beatrice Fairfax don't you dare,
Ever tell me he will care,
I'm certain, It's the final curtain.
Don't want to hear from and cheerful Pollyannas,
Who'll tell you fate supplies a mate, it's all bananas.
They're writing songs of love, but not for me,
A lucky star's above, but not for me,
With love to lead the way,
I found more clouds of grey,
Than any Russian play could guarantee.
I was a fool to fall, and get that way,
Hi ho! Alas! And also Lack-a-day!
Although I can't dismiss,
The memory of his kiss,
I guess he's not for me.
I know that love's a game,
I'm puzzled just the same,
Was I the moth or flame?
I'm all at sea.
It started off so swell,
This "let's pretend",
It all began so well,
But what an end.
The climax of the plot,
Should be the marriage knot,
But there's no knot for me.
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By Strauss
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Judy Kaye and Michael McGrath)
[Estonia]
Away with the music of Broadway!
Be off with your Irving Berlin!
Oh, I'd give no quarter
To Kern or Cole Porter,
And Gershwin keeps pounding on tin.
How can I be civil
When hearing this drivel?
It's only for nightclubbing souses.
Oh, give me the free'n'easy
Waltz that is Viennesey --
And, go tell the band
If they want a hand,
The waltz must be Strauss's.
Ya, ya, ya -- give me oom-pah-pah!
When I want a melody
Lilting through the house,
Then I want a melody
By Strauss.
It laughs! It sings! The world is in rhyme,
Swinging to three-quarter time.
Let the Danube flow along,
And the Fledermaus!
Keep the wine and give me song
By Strauss!
By jo, by jing!
By Strauss is the thing!
So I say to ha-cha-cha
Heruas!
Just give me an oom-pah-pah
By Strauss!
[Cookie]
Grab a cab and go down
To where the band is playing;
Where milk and honey flow down
Where ev'ry one is saying:
"Blow that sweet and low-down!"
Come along, get in it --
You'll love the syncopation!
The minute they begin it,
You're shouting to the nation:
"Blow --"
[Estonia]
How can I be civil
When hearing this drivel?
It's only for nightclubbing souses.
Oh, give me the free'n'easy
Waltz that is Viennesey --
[Estonia] (simultaneously)
When I want a melody
Lifting through the house,
Then I want a melody
By Strauss.
It laughs! It sings! The world is in rhyme,
Swinging to three-quarter t--
Swinging to three-quarter t--
Three-quarter!
Three-quarter!
Swinging to three-quarter time!
By jo, by jing!
By Strauss is the thing!
So I say to ha-cha-cha
Heruas!
Just give me an oom-pah-pah
By Strauss!
By Strauss!
By Strauss!
By Strauss!
[Estonia]
Away with the music of Broadway!
Be off with your Irving Berlin!
Oh, I'd give no quarter
To Kern or Cole Porter,
And Gershwin keeps pounding on tin.
How can I be civil
When hearing this drivel?
It's only for nightclubbing souses.
Oh, give me the free'n'easy
Waltz that is Viennesey --
And, go tell the band
If they want a hand,
The waltz must be Strauss's.
Ya, ya, ya -- give me oom-pah-pah!
When I want a melody
Lilting through the house,
Then I want a melody
By Strauss.
It laughs! It sings! The world is in rhyme,
Swinging to three-quarter time.
Let the Danube flow along,
And the Fledermaus!
Keep the wine and give me song
By Strauss!
By jo, by jing!
By Strauss is the thing!
So I say to ha-cha-cha
Heruas!
Just give me an oom-pah-pah
By Strauss!
[Cookie]
Grab a cab and go down
To where the band is playing;
Where milk and honey flow down
Where ev'ry one is saying:
"Blow that sweet and low-down!"
Come along, get in it --
You'll love the syncopation!
The minute they begin it,
You're shouting to the nation:
"Blow --"
[Estonia]
How can I be civil
When hearing this drivel?
It's only for nightclubbing souses.
Oh, give me the free'n'easy
Waltz that is Viennesey --
[Estonia] (simultaneously)
When I want a melody
Lifting through the house,
Then I want a melody
By Strauss.
It laughs! It sings! The world is in rhyme,
Swinging to three-quarter t--
Swinging to three-quarter t--
Three-quarter!
Three-quarter!
Swinging to three-quarter time!
By jo, by jing!
By Strauss is the thing!
So I say to ha-cha-cha
Heruas!
Just give me an oom-pah-pah
By Strauss!
By Strauss!
By Strauss!
By Strauss!
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Sweet and Lowdown (Reprise)
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
[Cookie] (simultaneously)
My advice is,
Grab a cab and go
Where the band is playing;
Milk and honey flow
Everyone is saying:
"Blow, that sweet and low-down"!
Low-down!
Four quarter!
Four-quarter!
Four-quarter!
Four-quarter!
Four-quarter time!
By jo, by jing!
Zing!
Ha-cha-cha-cha-cha!
Ha-cha-cha-cha!
Go on and blow,
That sweet and lowdown
Lowdown, lowdown, lowdown, lowdown, lowdown
Grab a cab and go
Where the band is playing;
Milk and honey flow
Everyone is saying!
My advice is,
Grab a cab and go
Where the band is playing;
Milk and honey flow
Everyone is saying:
"Blow, that sweet and low-down"!
Low-down!
Four quarter!
Four-quarter!
Four-quarter!
Four-quarter!
Four-quarter time!
By jo, by jing!
Zing!
Ha-cha-cha-cha-cha!
Ha-cha-cha-cha!
Go on and blow,
That sweet and lowdown
Lowdown, lowdown, lowdown, lowdown, lowdown
Grab a cab and go
Where the band is playing;
Milk and honey flow
Everyone is saying!
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Do Do Do
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy)
I remember the bliss
Of that wonderful kiss
I knew that a boy
Could never have more joy
From any little miss.
I remember it quite
'twas a wonderful night.
Oh, how I'd adore it
If you would encore it.
Do, do, do
What you've done, done, done
Before, baby.
Do, do, do
What I do, do, do
Adore, baby.
Let's try again,
Sigh again
Fly again to heaven.
Baby, see,
It's a b c --
I love you and you love me.
I know, know, know
What a beau, beau, beau
Should do, baby;
So don't, don't, don't
Say it won't, won't, won't
Come true, baby.
My heart begins to hum --
Dum de dum de dum-dum-dum,
So do, do, do
What you've done, done, done
Before.
You dear, dear, dear
Little dear, dear, dear
Come here --
Snappy!
And see, see, see
Little me, me, me make you
Happy!
My heart begins to sigh --
Di de di de di-di-di
So do, do, do
What you've done, done, done
Before.
I remember the bliss
Of that wonderful kiss
I knew that a boy
Could never have more joy
From any little miss.
I remember it quite
'twas a wonderful night.
Oh, how I'd adore it
If you would encore it.
Do, do, do
What you've done, done, done
Before, baby.
Do, do, do
What I do, do, do
Adore, baby.
Let's try again,
Sigh again
Fly again to heaven.
Baby, see,
It's a b c --
I love you and you love me.
I know, know, know
What a beau, beau, beau
Should do, baby;
So don't, don't, don't
Say it won't, won't, won't
Come true, baby.
My heart begins to hum --
Dum de dum de dum-dum-dum,
So do, do, do
What you've done, done, done
Before.
You dear, dear, dear
Little dear, dear, dear
Come here --
Snappy!
And see, see, see
Little me, me, me make you
Happy!
My heart begins to sigh --
Di de di de di-di-di
So do, do, do
What you've done, done, done
Before.
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Hangin Around With You
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Kelli O'Hara (Billie)
What's the use of hangin' around with you,
Hangin' around with you,
Hangin' around with you, dearie.
I never know,
I never know just where I stand!
What's the use of bangin' around with you,
Bangin' around with you,
Bangin' around with you, dearie.
You got to give,
This little girl a bigger hand.
You're not acting the beau,
That I once used to know.
I'm beginning to see,
That I'm likely to be,
On the shelf
If you want me hangin' around with you,
Hangin' around with you,
Hangin' around with you, dearie
You got to learn,
You got to learn to be yourself!
What's the use of hangin' around with you,
Hangin' around with you,
Hangin' around with you, dearie.
I never know,
I never know just where I stand!
What's the use of bangin' around with you,
Bangin' around with you,
Bangin' around with you, dearie.
You got to give,
This little girl a bigger hand.
You're not acting the beau,
That I once used to know.
I'm beginning to see,
That I'm likely to be,
On the shelf
If you want me hangin' around with you,
Hangin' around with you,
Hangin' around with you, dearie
You got to learn,
You got to learn to be yourself!
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Looking for a Boy
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Judy Kaye and Michael McGrath)
[Estonia]
I am just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love.
Tell me, please, where can he be,
The loving he who'll bring to me
The harmony I'm dreaming of?
It'll be goodbye, I know, to my tale of woe
When he says, "hello!"
Oh, I am just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love.
[Cookie]
You are just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love.
[Estonia]
Tell me, please, where can he be,
The loving he who'll bring to me
The harmony I'm dreaming of?
It'll be goodbye, I know, to my tale of woe
When he says, "hello!"
I am just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love!
[Estonia]
I am just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love.
Tell me, please, where can he be,
The loving he who'll bring to me
The harmony I'm dreaming of?
It'll be goodbye, I know, to my tale of woe
When he says, "hello!"
Oh, I am just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love.
[Cookie]
You are just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love.
[Estonia]
Tell me, please, where can he be,
The loving he who'll bring to me
The harmony I'm dreaming of?
It'll be goodbye, I know, to my tale of woe
When he says, "hello!"
I am just a little girl
Who's looking for a little boy
Who's looking for a girl to love!
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Blah Blah Blah
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Chris Sullivan)
I've written you a song
A beautiful routine.
I hope you like it.
My technique can't be wrong;
I learned it from the screen.
I hope you like it.
I studied all the rhymes that all the lovers sing.
Then just for you I wrote this little thing:
Blah, blah, blah, blah, moon,
Blah, blah, blah, above
Blah, blah, blah, blah, croon
Blah, blah, blah, blah, love.
Tra la la la, tra la la la la,
merry month of may;
Tra la la la, tra la la la la,
'neath the clouds of gray.
Blah, blah, blah, your hair,
Blah, blah, blah, your eyes;
Blah, blah, blah, blah, care,
Blah, blah, blah, blah, skies.
Tra la la la, tra la la la la,
cottage for two—
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
darling with you.
Blah, blah, blah, your hair,
Blah, blah, blah, your eyes;
Blah, blah, blah, blah, care,
Blah, blah, blah, blah, skies.
Tra la la la, tra la la la la,
cottage for two—
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, darling with you.
I've written you a song
A beautiful routine.
I hope you like it.
My technique can't be wrong;
I learned it from the screen.
I hope you like it.
I studied all the rhymes that all the lovers sing.
Then just for you I wrote this little thing:
Blah, blah, blah, blah, moon,
Blah, blah, blah, above
Blah, blah, blah, blah, croon
Blah, blah, blah, blah, love.
Tra la la la, tra la la la la,
merry month of may;
Tra la la la, tra la la la la,
'neath the clouds of gray.
Blah, blah, blah, your hair,
Blah, blah, blah, your eyes;
Blah, blah, blah, blah, care,
Blah, blah, blah, blah, skies.
Tra la la la, tra la la la la,
cottage for two—
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
darling with you.
Blah, blah, blah, your hair,
Blah, blah, blah, your eyes;
Blah, blah, blah, blah, care,
Blah, blah, blah, blah, skies.
Tra la la la, tra la la la la,
cottage for two—
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, darling with you.
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Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (Reprise)
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy), Kelli O'Hara (Billie), and Stanley Wayne Mathis)
You say either and I say either,
You say neither and I say neither
Either, either
Neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off.
You like potato and I like... potahto?
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto,
Tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off
But oh, if we call the whole thing off
Then we must part;
And oh, if we ever part, then that might break my heart.
So if you like pajamas and I like pajahmas,
I'll wear pajamas and give up pajahmas;
For we know we need each other so we
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.
She says laughter and you say laughter
You say after and he says aufter
Laughter, laughter
After aufter
Let's call the whole thing off.
I like vanilla and you like vanella
You sarsaparilla, and I sarsaparella
Vanilla, vanella
Chocolate strawberry
Let's call the whole thing off.
But oh if you call the whole thing off then you must part
And oh, if you ever part, then that might break my heart
So if you go for oysters and I go for ersters
I'll order oysters and cancel the ersters
For you know you need each other so you
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.
You say either and I say either,
You say neither and I say neither
Either, either
Neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off.
You like potato and I like... potahto?
You like tomato and I like tomahto
Potato, potahto,
Tomato, tomahto.
Let's call the whole thing off
But oh, if we call the whole thing off
Then we must part;
And oh, if we ever part, then that might break my heart.
So if you like pajamas and I like pajahmas,
I'll wear pajamas and give up pajahmas;
For we know we need each other so we
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.
She says laughter and you say laughter
You say after and he says aufter
Laughter, laughter
After aufter
Let's call the whole thing off.
I like vanilla and you like vanella
You sarsaparilla, and I sarsaparella
Vanilla, vanella
Chocolate strawberry
Let's call the whole thing off.
But oh if you call the whole thing off then you must part
And oh, if you ever part, then that might break my heart
So if you go for oysters and I go for ersters
I'll order oysters and cancel the ersters
For you know you need each other so you
Better call the calling off off,
Let's call the whole thing off.
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Will You Remember Me?
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy) and Kelli O'Hara (Billie)
[Billie]
When I go my way,
Along some highway,
Will you remember me?
When you are lonesome,
I'd like to own some
Place in your memory.
I know that you'll play a part
In my heart when I start;
That's something I can guarantee.
But when I stray off,
Somewhere away off --
Will you remember me?
[Jimmy]
Now that I am starting,
I cannot deny,
I'd prefer a 'see you later'
To a mere goodbye.
But before departing
Do I hope in vain?
Something makes me wonder whether
You'll forget me altogether
If we never meet again.
[Jimmy] (simultaneously)
When you go your way
Out through my doorway
Will you remember me?
When you are lonesome,
I'd like to own some
Place in your memory.
But when you stray off,
Somewhere away off --
Will you remember me?
[Billie] (simultaneously)
Will you remember me?
When you're alone,
I'd like to own some
Place in your memory.
I know that you'll play a part
In my heart when I start;
That's something I can guarantee.
But when I stray off,
Somewhere away off --
Will you remember me?
Will you remember me?
[Billie]
When I go my way,
Along some highway,
Will you remember me?
When you are lonesome,
I'd like to own some
Place in your memory.
I know that you'll play a part
In my heart when I start;
That's something I can guarantee.
But when I stray off,
Somewhere away off --
Will you remember me?
[Jimmy]
Now that I am starting,
I cannot deny,
I'd prefer a 'see you later'
To a mere goodbye.
But before departing
Do I hope in vain?
Something makes me wonder whether
You'll forget me altogether
If we never meet again.
[Jimmy] (simultaneously)
When you go your way
Out through my doorway
Will you remember me?
When you are lonesome,
I'd like to own some
Place in your memory.
But when you stray off,
Somewhere away off --
Will you remember me?
[Billie] (simultaneously)
Will you remember me?
When you're alone,
I'd like to own some
Place in your memory.
I know that you'll play a part
In my heart when I start;
That's something I can guarantee.
But when I stray off,
Somewhere away off --
Will you remember me?
Will you remember me?
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I've Got to Be There (Reprise)
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
When music is playing
And couples are swaying --
Say! I've got to be there!
I've got to be there!
When joy's in the making
And ceilings are shaking
And there's never a care --
I've got to be there!
Check my hat
And throw the stub away!
I'm a lamb
Who's gone astray!
When bottles are popping
And dignity's dropping
And the women are fair --
We've got to be there!
We've got to be there!
You've got to be there!
You've got to be there!
And couples are swaying --
Say! I've got to be there!
I've got to be there!
When joy's in the making
And ceilings are shaking
And there's never a care --
I've got to be there!
Check my hat
And throw the stub away!
I'm a lamb
Who's gone astray!
When bottles are popping
And dignity's dropping
And the women are fair --
We've got to be there!
We've got to be there!
You've got to be there!
You've got to be there!
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Ive Got a Crush on You
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Jennifer Laura Thompson and Company)
How glad a million laddies
From millionaires to caddies,
Would be,
To capture me.
But you had such persistence
You wore down my resistance;
I fell --
And it was swell.
You're my big and brave and handsome romeo.
How you won me I shall never, never know.
It's not that you're attractive --
But oh, my heart grew active
When you
Came into view ...
You've got a crush on me, sweetie pie.
All the day and nighttime, hear you sigh.
I never had the least notion
That you could fall with so much emotion.
Could you coo, could you care
For a cunning cottage we could share?
The world will pardon your mush
'cause you've got a crush,
My baby, on me!
How glad a million laddies
From millionaires to caddies,
Would be,
To capture me.
But you had such persistence
You wore down my resistance;
I fell --
And it was swell.
You're my big and brave and handsome romeo.
How you won me I shall never, never know.
It's not that you're attractive --
But oh, my heart grew active
When you
Came into view ...
You've got a crush on me, sweetie pie.
All the day and nighttime, hear you sigh.
I never had the least notion
That you could fall with so much emotion.
Could you coo, could you care
For a cunning cottage we could share?
The world will pardon your mush
'cause you've got a crush,
My baby, on me!
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Blah, Blah, Blah (Reprise)
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
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Looking for a Boy (Reprise)
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
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Delishious (Reprise)
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Jennifer Laura Thompson)
What can I say
To sing my praise of you?
I must reveal the things I feel.
What can I say
Each lovely phase of you
Just seems to baffle my descriptive powers
Four-and-twenty hours of ev'ry day
What can I say?
What is the thing I'd love to sing?
They've said you're marvelous
They've said you're wonderful;
And yet that's not it.
Now let me see; I think I've got it!
I'm so delishious
And so caprishious;
I grow ambishious
To have you care for me.
In that connecshion,
You're my selecshion
For true affecshion
For all the time to be.
Oh, he's had one, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten girls before;
But now there's one, and I'm the one
The one he does adore
'Cause I'm so delishious
And so caprishious;
If I'm repetishious,
It's cause I'm so delishious.
[Chorus]
You're so delishious
And so caprishious;
I grow ambishious
To have you care for me.
In that connecshion,
You're my selecshion
For true affecshion
For all the time to be.
Oh, he's had one, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten girls before;
But now there's one, and I'm the one
The one he does adore
'Cause you're delishious
And so caprishious;
If I'm repetishious,
It's cause I'm so delishious!
What can I say
To sing my praise of you?
I must reveal the things I feel.
What can I say
Each lovely phase of you
Just seems to baffle my descriptive powers
Four-and-twenty hours of ev'ry day
What can I say?
What is the thing I'd love to sing?
They've said you're marvelous
They've said you're wonderful;
And yet that's not it.
Now let me see; I think I've got it!
I'm so delishious
And so caprishious;
I grow ambishious
To have you care for me.
In that connecshion,
You're my selecshion
For true affecshion
For all the time to be.
Oh, he's had one, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten girls before;
But now there's one, and I'm the one
The one he does adore
'Cause I'm so delishious
And so caprishious;
If I'm repetishious,
It's cause I'm so delishious.
[Chorus]
You're so delishious
And so caprishious;
I grow ambishious
To have you care for me.
In that connecshion,
You're my selecshion
For true affecshion
For all the time to be.
Oh, he's had one, two, three, four, five
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten girls before;
But now there's one, and I'm the one
The one he does adore
'Cause you're delishious
And so caprishious;
If I'm repetishious,
It's cause I'm so delishious!
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Someone to Watch Over Me (Reprise)
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy) and Kelli O'Hara (Billie)
[Jimmy]
And this world would be like heaven if she'd,
Followed my lead.
[Billie]
Oh how I need,
[Simultaneously]
Someone to watch over me,
Someone to watch over me.
[Jimmy]
And this world would be like heaven if she'd,
Followed my lead.
[Billie]
Oh how I need,
[Simultaneously]
Someone to watch over me,
Someone to watch over me.
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They All Laughed
by Nice Work If You Can Get It the Musical
(Performed by Matthew Broderick (Jimmy) and Kelli O'Hara (Billie) and Company)
)
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round;
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly;
They told Marconi
Wireless was phony --
It's the same old cry!
They laughed at me wanting you,
Said I was reaching for the moon;
But oh, you came through
Now they'll have to change their tune.
They all said we never could be happy,
They laughed at us -- and how!
But ho, ho, ho --
Who's got the last laugh now.
They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat
Hershey and his choc'late bar.
Ford and his Lizze
Kept the laughers busy --
That's how people are!
They laughed at me wanting you --
Said it would be hello! Goodbye!
But oh, you came through --
Now they're eating humble pie.
They all said we'd never get together --
Darling, let's take a bow,
For ho, ho, ho
Who's got the last laugh now
Just imagine someone,
Waiting at the cottage door.
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more.
Loving one who loves you
and then taking that bow
It's nice work if you can get it
And if you get it,
Won't you tell me how!
Who's got the last laugh now!
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They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round;
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly;
They told Marconi
Wireless was phony --
It's the same old cry!
They laughed at me wanting you,
Said I was reaching for the moon;
But oh, you came through
Now they'll have to change their tune.
They all said we never could be happy,
They laughed at us -- and how!
But ho, ho, ho --
Who's got the last laugh now.
They all laughed at Fulton and his steamboat
Hershey and his choc'late bar.
Ford and his Lizze
Kept the laughers busy --
That's how people are!
They laughed at me wanting you --
Said it would be hello! Goodbye!
But oh, you came through --
Now they're eating humble pie.
They all said we'd never get together --
Darling, let's take a bow,
For ho, ho, ho
Who's got the last laugh now
Just imagine someone,
Waiting at the cottage door.
Where two hearts become one
Who could ask for anything more.
Loving one who loves you
and then taking that bow
It's nice work if you can get it
And if you get it,
Won't you tell me how!
Who's got the last laugh now!
Copyright: Lyrics © Original Writer and Publisher
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.
Genre(s):
Soundtrack, Musical Year: 2012