What is some like it hot on broadway about?
A super-sized, all-out song-and-dance spectacular! Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the “glorious, big, high-kicking” (Associated Press) story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit.
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Overall gem of a show & warranted the 13 Tony nominations. Borle, Ghee & Hicks stole the show! Don't see it if You don't enjoy old Hollywood or Broadway musicals. Spectacular singing & staging but the subject material might be dated for some patrons.
Some Like It Hot is a show that raises some serious topics, but they are mostly played for laughs. Seduction, alcohol, and smoking are all present on stage, so this is something you might want to be mindful of when planning to include the little ones in your group. The show is recommended for ages 12 and up.
The current Broadway production is aware of how some elements of the original movie may not fly today (e.g. Joe blatantly lying in order to sleep with Sugar), so they've made a few changes so that the actions of the main characters are less morally questionable.
The figures suggest a fairly steady decline in audience interest from the show's most recent high point of $1,143,488, which came in June following the musical's decent showing at the Tony Awards, where J. Harrison Ghee took the coveted trophy for best lead actor in a musical.
But when Jerry finally admits to his fiancé that he is a man, Osgood responds with the film's exemplary last line, “Well, nobody's perfect.” In summary, Some Like It Hot is the story of people who lie and cheat in order to con other people into bed or out of their cash.
Some Like It Hot is arguably one of the greatest comedy movies ever made. Some Like It Hot is a real weirdie: Wilder gets no laughs at all out of his sizzling, fast wedding of female impersonation to 1929 thrills, but, from a non-entertainment angle, his movie has a not-quite-real surface that is worth examining.
The basic plot remains the same. Two jazz musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness a mob hit, they go on the run in drag, join an all-girl band, one of them falls in love with the saccharine Sugar Kane, the other gets hounded by love-sick millionaire Osgood Fielding III, hijinks ensue.
It plays heavily with sexual mores—it's supposed to be funny because Curtis and Lemmon are cads and the situations they are in. At no point does the movie indicate this is good behavior, so it's hard to take it all too seriously. Teens might squirm a bit watching with their parents.
Running Time
Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.
What is Some Like It Hot Broadway based on?
Some Like It Hot is a 2022 musical comedy with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman, and a book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin. It is based on the 1959 MGM/UA feature film Some Like It Hot, which in turn was based on the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love.
' In fact, following the release of Some Like it Hot, it was described by the Catholic League of Decency as, “seriously offensive to Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency.” However, the film made the decision to persevere with its original subject material and reject these constraints (like many ...
'Some Like It Hot': Broadway Musical Wins 4 Tony Awards.
- Christian Borle. Joe/Josephine.
- J. Harrison Ghee. Jerry/Daphne.
- Kevin Del Aguila. Osgood.
- Adrianna Hicks. Sugar.
- NaTasha Yvette Williams. Sweet Sue.
- Adam Heller. Mulligan.
- Mark Lotito. Spats.
Some Like It Hot will play its final performance on December 30. The musical began previews on November 1, 2022, and opened at the Shubert Theatre on December 11. At the time of closing, the new musical will have played 43 previews and 440 regular performances.
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The tango dance which the two share (with Lemmon leading by mistake) is one of the highlights of Some Like It Hot and the film's famous closing line – “Well, nobody's perfect” – is delivered by Brown after Lemmon's character has revealed to him that he is in fact a man.
The title is a reference to "hot" jazz, the type of music that the all-girl band performs. The title figures into the story about halfway through the movie when Junior asks Sugar if she plays "that fast music... jazz?" Sugar replies, "Yeah! Real hot!", to which Junior responds, "Well, I guess some like it hot.
The Some Like It Hot film premiered in 1959, and it has since gone down in history as one of the most beloved comedy films of all time. The film remains one of Marilyn Monroe's most famous credits as an actress and Billy Wilder's as a director. The Some Like It Hot musical premiered directly on Broadway in fall 2022.
With his 1959 comedy "Some Like It Hot," director Billy Wilder crafted a Prohibition-era fantasia, telling a wild, exaggerated story of dangerous gangsters on the tail of witless witnesses.
What is the mise en scene in Some Like It Hot?
Mise-en-Scène
Forms of transport, such as the train, bicycle, yacht and motorboat, are key motifs emphasising the theme of journeys and transformation. The characters are doubles - Sugar and Daphne are both blondes and act like sisters, while Osgood and Jo dress alike, give the same gifts, and use the same boat.
Filmed at Hotel del Coronado in 1958, “Some Like It Hot” showcased the talents of Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon while also highlighting the hotel's assets – a spectacular sun-drenched silhouette of Victorian architecture, the perfect backdrop for the film's 1929 setting.
- Hamilton on Broadway.
- The Lion King on Broadway.
- Wicked on Broadway.
- Hadestown on Broadway.
- Moulin Rouge! The Musical on Broadway.
- Six the Musical on Broadway.
- Harry Potter and the Cursed Child on Broadway.
- Sweeney Todd on Broadway.
The Lion King sits at the top, with a Broadway gross of $1.8 billion. Dates refer to original Broadway productions, with notes added for future productions that outran the Broadway run. † Background shading indicates shows running in the week commencing 24 November 2023 in Broadway theatres.
