''Some Like It Hot'' is a current

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based on the

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/ UA film ''

Some Like It Hot ''Some Like It Hot'' is a 1959 American crime comedy film directed, produced and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee, Grace Lee Whitney and N ...

'', with music by

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, lyrics by

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& Shaiman, and a book by Matthew López &

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. The musical, like the film, follows the story of jazz age musicians struggling during Prohibition.

Production history

Broadway (2022)

The musical was originally scheduled to have its out-of-town engagement in Chicago at the

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, but was later announced that the engagement was canceled following the COVID-19 shutdown. The show began previews at the Shubert Theatre on

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on November 1, 2022, with an opening night on December 11, directed by

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and features

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as Joe/Josephine, Kevin Del Aguila as Osgood,

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as Jerry/Daphne, and

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as Sugar.

Cast and characters

Musical numbers

;Act I *"What Are You Thirsty For?" - Sue & Ensemble *"You Can't Have Me (If You Don't Have Him)" - Joe & Jerry *"Vamp!" - Joe & Jerry *"I'm California Bound" - Sue, Joe, Jerry, Sugar & Ensemble *"A Darker Shade of Blue" - Sugar *"Take It Up A Step" - Sugar, Josephine, Daphne, & Ensemble *"Zee Bap" - Sue, Daphne, & Ensemble *"At the Old Majestic Nickel Matinee" - Sugar *"Poor Little Millionaire" - Osgood & Ensemble *"Some Like It Hot" - Sue, Sugar, Daphne & Ensemble ;Act II *"Let's Be Bad" - Osgood, Daphne, & Ensemble *"Let's Dance the World Away" - Joe, Sugar, Ensemble *"Fly, Mariposa, Fly" - Osgood & Ensemble *"You Could've Knocked Me Over With a Feather" - Daphne *"He Lied When He Said Hello" - Joe & Ensemble *"Ride Out the Storm" - Sugar *"Tip Tap Trouble" - Company *"Baby, Let's Get Good" - Company

External links

Official website

References