Connick Jr & Marshall to Team for 'They All Laughed'?
Michael Riedel of the New York Post reports crooner Harry Connick Jr. - last seen on Broadway starring in the Tony Award-winning revival of The Pajama Game, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall - is eyeing to star and restage the obscure 1926 George and Ira Gershwin musical They All Laughed for Broadway audiences.
The article describes They All Laughed, last staged at Goodspeed Opera House in 2001, as a "convoluted plot involving Prohibition, a Temperance Society, bootlegging, speakeasies, a playboy, an heiress and some lovable gangsters…But it was the songs, pulled from the golden Gershwin trunk and inserted into the story line, that carried the evening: 'I've Got a Crush on You,' 'He Loves and She Loves,' 'Blah Blah Blah,' 'Do Do Do' and 'S'Wonderful,' among them…"
Riedel further reports Connick Jr. and Marshall have their sites on the Palace Theatre, though investors are skeptical of the musical's old-timey feel and potential to draw in audiences.
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