Live & Local: Nice Work If You Can Get It Opens at The Lone Tree Arts Center
Nice Work If You Can Get It opened at the Lone Tree Arts Center Thursday, October 9 and runs through Sunday, October 26. Initially hitting Broadway in 2012, this musical pokes fun at the Prohibition era in a clash of elegant socialites and boorish bootleggers, all while highlighting beloved numbers from the incredible songbook of George and Ira Gershwin. Now, jazz standards that have filled the KUVO airwaves like “Fascinating Rhythm,” “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off,” “Someone To Watch Over Me,” “Sweet and Low Down,” and the title track are brought to life through the magic of a large symphonic jazz sound in this production.
Alec Steinhorn is the Key 1 Conductor and music director of this production. Hailing from New Jersey, he shared that Colorado has been good to him in regards to the range he has been able to build up here. Recent credits include Little Miss Sunshine (Aurora Fox), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Arvada Center), Mary Poppins (Give 5 Productions), Sweeney Todd (Off Square Theater Company), School of Rock (Miners Alley Playhouse), and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Arvada Center)
Nice Work If You Can Get It marks Alec’s Lone Tree Arts Center debut and the first time working with a pit of this size. The show’s 14-person pit is equipped with reeds, brass, a full rhythm section including guitar, bass, and 2 percussion sets, 2 pianos, & strings. He shared that when rehearsals shifted from just him behind the piano to the inclusion of the big band that it was “like watching a black and white movie and then all of a sudden getting the color.”
Alec joined Carlos Lando and Abi Clark on The Morning Set to talk about George and Ira Gershwin’s musical legacy and his experience conducting a band of this size, the big sound behind The Lone Tree Arts Center’s production of Nice Work If You Can Get It.
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