Nice Work If You Can Get It: The Gershwin Brothers' Toe-Tapping Journey Back to Broadway
Nice Work If You Can Get It may be a brand new Broadway musical, but its origins date back to the early 1900s. When young Israel Gershowitz’s parents bought him a piano, they had hoped he would excel at his lessons. He didn’t. To Israel’s relief, his little brother Jacob took a liking to the instrument instead. Thanks to that piano, the Gershowitz brothers—better known as Ira and George Gershw…