The new musical “Some Like it Hot” - based on the 1959 MGM classic directed and co-written by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, and Marilyn Monroe - is steaming up the stage at Broadway’s Shubert Theatre in New York City.
Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, who won the Best Direction Of A Musical Tony Award for “Book of Mormon, “Some Like it Hot” features a new book by playwright Matthew López and comedian, comedy-writer, and host Amber Ruffin; music by Marc Shaiman; and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman - the Tony Award winning duo behind the bops in “Hairspray.”
As a plot reminder - or initiation: musicians Joe (Christian Borle) and Jerry (J. Harrison Ghee) witness a mob-hit in 1930s Chicago and disguise themselves as women and join an all-female jazz ensemble - joining the band on tour so they can get out of town.
Joe poses as Josephine and falls for the lead singer in the band, Sugar Cane (Adrianna Hicks); and Jerry becomes Daphne and attempts to evade the advances of an instantly besotted millionaire. The surprisingly observant and chronically giddy millionaire, Osgood, is played by Kevin Del Aguila.
Del Aguila, who was previously on Broadway in "Peter and the Starcatcher," "Rocky," and "Frozen," is also an Emmy-winning writer and author of the musicals "Altar Boyz” and “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.“