Peach State Summer Theatre will kick off a nine-performance run of “Nice Work If You Can Get It” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 24, at Valdosta State University’s Sawyer Theatre. Tickets are on sale now.
 
Set in 1927’s Long Island, N.Y., “Nice Work If You Can Get It” tells the story of a Jazz Age playboy who gets involved with bootleggers, rumrunners, and gold diggers on the weekend of his marriage. The musical comedy features music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by two-time Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro. It opened at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway on April 24, 2012, and enjoyed 478 performances before closing on June 15, 2013.
 
“The show is a new take on a classic 1920s musical farce,” according to The Guide to Musical Theatre. “It’s the tale of Jimmy Winter, a wealthy and carefree playboy living the good life in the midst of Prohibition. Jimmy has an unfortunate habit of marrying chorus girls, until he’s forced to marry a woman of substance — Eileen Evergreen, the finest interpreter of modern dance in the world. On the weekend of their nuptials, Jimmy meets Billie Bendix, a tough-as-nails bootlegger who has inadvertently stashed 400 cases of gin in Jimmy’s basement. Knocked out by this one-of-a-kind woman, Jimmy must deal with his high strung fiancée and an assortment of bootleggers, prohibitionists, G-Men, and chorus girls, as well as one very moralistic senator.”
 
Individual admission is $31.28 for adults and $25.93 for students and senior citizens, including taxes and fees. A discount is available for groups of 10 or more.