Show Plot Nice Work If You Can Get It

Authors: Music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, a book by Joe DiPietro

Time Period: 1927, during the height of the Prohibition Era

Setting: The Winter family's lavish, ritzy summer mansion and beach house in Long Island, New York (along with a brief opening scene at a New York City speakeasy)

Summary: Nice Work If You Can Get It is a 1920s Prohibition-era, screwball musical comedy. The story follows wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter and rough bootlegger Billie Bendix as they hide illegal alcohol in a ritzy Long Island beach house during Jimmy's wedding weekend.