Some Like It Hot
Opening Night: December 11, 2022
Theater: Shubert Theatre
Website: somelikeithotmusical.com
Who says they don’t make musical comedies like they used to? Some Like It Hot, the funniest film in Hollywood history, has been reimagined and reborn as Broadway’s great big musical comedy. They’ve set the stage for a non-stop musical adventure, as a sax, a bass, and a singer catch a cross-country train for the life-chasing, life-changing trip of a lifetime.
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December 11, 2022
In a world where drag queen story hours come under attack and gender-neutral bathrooms are weaponized, it is heartening to watch Some Like It Hot with its “actually, drag makes us all better people” message.
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December 11, 2022
That’s a pretty high standard, after all, and in its staging (by Casey Nicholaw), its revamped plot (by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin) and especially its songs (by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman), “Some Like It Hot” clears the bar handily.
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December 11, 2022
“Some Like It Hot,” which opened at the Shubert Theatre tonight, manages to speak to the moment with sizzle, polish and expert understanding of how to please a crowd. It is a grand, old-fashioned love letter to the form with a slick and engaging contemporary gloss, both wholly recognizable as a template for Broadway success and smartly attentive to the times.
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December 11, 2022
But somewhere amid all the careful noting and updating of the original, Some Like It Hot’s fire has been dimmed. It’s easier to note all the ways the show doesn’t do anything wrong than the ways it executes new ideas of its own. There’s only so much you can get from something so on the defensive about its own existence. Everything goes so smoothly that there’s hardly any friction at all—and you need friction to generate heat.
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December 11, 2022
Here, the Jazz Age sound- and stage-filling movement are on a grand scale; Casey Nicholaw both directs and spectacularly choreographs the show. And yet, despite the bravura set pieces Some Like it Hot serves up—and, to be clear, they are among the most wow on Broadway right now—something is missing in the story amid the colorful chaos, some kind of heart or through-line to link its glittering thrills together.
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December 11, 2022
The musical version reheats this story with abundant production values and canny attention to modern sensibilities. If it wobbles a little in its borrowed heels at first, it finishes in the confident stride of a hit.
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December 11, 2022
This stage production boasts swell performances, dandy twists and turns, razzmatazz dancing and a whole lotta energy (under the savvy, playful direction and choreography of Casey Nicholaw) — all of which should please new audiences without alienating fans of the original.
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December 11, 2022
We’re all fortunate that Casey Nicholaw has ignored any such warnings, and has instead assembled a glorious new Some Like It Hot, a tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling embrace of everything to love about classic American musical theater, Golden Age Hollywood and Broadway talent at the top of their games, all of it crafted with a 21st Century wisdom that knows what’s worth clutching from the past and what insists on a refresh. Some Like It Hot is a delight from start to finish.
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December 11, 2022
Casey Nicholaw directs and choreographs with his usual flair for parody. He mines real romantic gold in the scenes between Ghee and Del Aguila, who’s pure cockeyed bliss every single moment he’s on stage. Nicholaw’s direction of Borle and Hicks strands them in another musical.
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The musical that opened Sunday at the Shubert Theatre captures the anarchic spirit and humor of the Tony Curtis-Jack Lemmon movie but takes it to a better place, somewhere previous men-in-dress shows like “Tootsie” and “Mrs. Doubtfire” were unable or unwilling to go.
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Audiences looking for a sugary shot of old-fashioned Broadway hooch will probably find much to satisfy here, but for all the energy expended and the talent on display, “Some Like It Hot” eventually begins to pall, all but numbing us to its charms by the relentlessness of its insistence upon them.
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December 11, 2022
Sometimes you just want a brassy, sassy, unapologetically fun musical — and that’s exactly what’s on the bill at the Shubert Theatre with Some Like It Hot. It’s a guaranteed good night on Broadway, a glorious throwback that also manages to retrofit a well-known story for today.
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And of all Shaiman’s wonderful past musical scores, this is the one that most celebrates the big band era — the levels are high, the joint gets musically pumping, the harmonics are lush and Nicholaw’s grand dancers commit to every kinetic moment. The music, at least, is red hot and jumpin’.
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Happily, this lavish show based on the Oscar-winning 1959 Billy Wilder classic rom-com mostly delivers that. Screen-to-stage adaptations are always tricky endeavors, and this one scores points for not just tracing the source but turning up some fresh ideas of its own.
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December 11, 2022
Gentlemen prefer … the movie. The wobbly quality of the new Broadway musical “Some Like It Hot,” which opened Sunday night at the Shubert Theatre, is made much more obvious by the indisputable greatness of its source material.
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