Nice Work if You Can Get It, a pastiche of old Gershwin songs that got 10 Tony nominations, took home two awards, for Best Featured Actor and Actress. And both went to solid old pros: Michael McGrath, the pudgy Broadway vet who played a very funny Prohibition-era gangster, and onetime Broadway ingenue Judy Kaye, as a pro-temperance battle-ax who winds up swinging from a chandelier. Both gave spirited, hardworking performances that made the featherweight musical more enjoyable that it had any right to be.
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