Harry Connick Jr. Returns in 'Nice Work If You Can Get It'

Harry Connick Jr. and the Gershwins, George and Ira — Broadway's newest trio.

The jazz pianist-singer will return to Broadway in spring 2009 in ''Nice Work If You Can Get It,'' a new musical comedy using Gershwin standards, producer Scott Landis announced Monday.

Connick will play a Long Island playboy in the show, which will feature a book by Joe DiPietro, one of the authors of ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change''; music by George Gershwin, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

''Nice Work If You Can Get It'' will play a pre-Broadway engagement at Boston's Colonial Theatre. The show will begin preview performances on Broadway in February at a theater to be announced and open in March. Other casting will be announced later.

Kathleen Marshall will direct and choreograph. Marshall and Connick last worked together in the Tony-winning revival of ''The Pajama Game'' in 2006.