<P> A US national tour of the musical started September 2, 2014 at the Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas, and ran, with an extended break for the winter holidays, until March 22, 2015 . It finished at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California . </P> <P> The Australian premiere, a non-replica production directed by Roger Hodgman for The Production Company, played at the State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne from August 15 to 23, 2015 . It featured Rohan Browne, Esther Hannaford, Christie Whelan - Browne, John Wood, Gina Riley, George Kapiniaris, and Nicki Wendt . </P> <P> Act I It's 1927, in the midst of a riotous bachelor party for the oft - married Jimmy Winter ("Sweet and Lowdown"). Outside, a trio of bootleggers--Cookie, Billie and Duke--are trying to figure out where to hide the 400 cases of gin they have stashed on their boat . As a stranger approaches, Duke and Cookie rush off . A drunken Jimmy staggers and comes across the pants - wearing Billie and is immediately smitten . He explains his plight--he must marry someone respectable or his mother will disinherit him, so he's marrying someone he doesn't truly love . Billie isn't all that interested in his tale of woe, until he reveals that he has a huge Long Island beach house that he never uses, so she swipes his wallet to discover the address . Jimmy assumes Billie is falling for him, but Billie insists that love is for suckers . Jimmy vehemently disagrees ("Nice Work If You Can Get It"). Jimmy passes out, and Billie focuses on this interesting man unconscious on the ground before her ("Nice Work If You Can Get It - Reprise"). Cookie and Duke rush back on, and Billie tells them that she found a place to store their bootleg--a Long Island beach house . A police whistle pierces the air, and the bootleggers scatter . Senator Max Evergreen and Chief Berry enter, along with Duchess Estonia Dulworth, who has brought along her Vice Squad and vows to rid society of its greatest evil ("Demon Rum"). </P> <P> The next morning, Billie, Cookie and Duke have stored their 400 cases of gin in the cellar of Jimmy's ritzy beach house . Eileen Evergreen, the finest interpreter of modern dance in the world, enters with Jimmy . They were married that morning, and they are on their honeymoon, though Eileen has yet to allow Jimmy to touch her . Cookie, disguised as a butler, enters and they naturally assume he's their servant . They send him off, and Eileen tells Jimmy that she's ready for the honeymoon shenanigans to begin--as soon as she takes a bath . She exits into the house as Billie enters, stunned to see Jimmy . Jimmy has no memory of meeting her last night, and as Jimmy flirts with her, Billie confesses that she's never been kissed . Strictly for educational purposes, Jimmy kisses Billie, and she realizes what she's been missing ("Someone to Watch Over Me"). </P>

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