Performance Now Theatre Company presents Nice Work If You Can Get It at Lakewood Cultural Center

Performance Now Theatre CompanyNice Work If You Can Get ItMusic and Lyrics by George and Ira GershwinBook by Joe DiPietroInspired by Material by Guy Bolton and P. G WodehouseDirected by Bernie CardellMusic Direction by Heather Holt HallChoreographed by Christopher Page-SandersJune 10 - 26, 2022 Performance Now Theatre Company presentsNice Work If You Can Get It June 10 26 at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway in Lakewood. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20 - $36 and are available or online www.performancenow.org or by calling 303-987-7845.Set in the 1920s, Nice Work If You Can Get It is the story of charming and wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter, who meets rough female bootlegger Billie Bendix the weekend of his wedding. Jimmy, who has been married three (or is it four?) times before, is preparing to marry Eileen Evergreen, a self-obsessed modern dancer. Thinking Jimmy and Eileen will be out of town, Billie and her gang hides cases of alcohol in the basement of Jimmys Long Island mansion. But when Jimmy, his wife-to-be and her prohibitionist family show up at the mansion for the wedding, Billie and her cohorts pose as servants, causing hi-jinks galore. The cast includes Andy Sievers as Jimmy Winter, Dallas Slankard as Billie Bendix, Brian Trampler as Cookie McGee, Tim Campbell as Duke Mahoney, Sophia Montoya-Suson as Jeannie Muldoon, Liz Brooks as Estonia Dulworth, and Aynsley Upton as Eileen Evergreen. About Performance NowBesides onstage training there are many opportunities for new artists, young and old, to acquire different skills associated with the theatre, including set design and construction, stage management, costumes, and make-up. Our training programs help to give the apprentice a better understanding of theatre in general, while providing them experience in the different areas associated with the production. Performance Now dedicates at least one show each year to this purpose, Bringing professional quality entertainment at affordable prices. Performance NowNice Work If You Can Get It This screwball comedy pokes fun at the Prohibition era in a clash of elegant socialites and boorish bootleggers. June 10 - 26, Fri. /Sat. at 7:30 p.m.; Sat./Sun. at 2 p.m. $20 - $36 - 303-987-7845 or online at www.performancenow.org - Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway. ###