Most shows feature a tried-and-true pattern of opening with a traditional “I Want” song, which details the leading character’s hopes and wishes for the rest of the story. Sweet Charity, currently playing on the main stage at Cockpit In Court at CCBC Essex, Directed by Cockpit veteran Eric Potter, is an entire show full of hopes and dreams and wants and desires, most of which are quickly dashed for the taxi dancers at the Fandango Ballroom,
“When music
is playing and couples are swaying Say! I’ve got to be there! I’ve got to be
there!”
Indeed you do.
Attendance is quite simply mandatory for Cockpit in Court Summer Theater’s production of Nice Work If You Can Get It still open for two full weekends at the F. Scott Black Theatre.
Amanda N. Gunther | TheatreBloom The Company of Nice Work If You Can Get It at Cockpit in Court
Fans of
Golden Age music (and musicals) will be overjoyed to see this production,
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