| Old 'SUGAR' gossip from days gone by. ... | |
| Last Edit: flaguy 01:12 pm EDT 05/15/18 | |
| Posted by: flaguy (flaguy) 01:06 pm EDT 05/15/18 | |
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| Composer Marc Shaiman (on FaceBook) says: "We are having a great time creating a brand new musical of "SOME LIKE IT HOT" ... I can't share any info about how we all are approaching it, but if we do what we intend to, I believe it will earn it's right to exist as the second - an alternate, if you will - musical of this film to be written. No one else can ever be Jule Styne & Bob Merrill, so we are heading in different (and exciting!) directions. And I can't wait for you all to see our version of this classic story." * I remember once hearing, around the time 'SUGAR' first opened on Broadway (1972, and I was working at AFTER DARK Magazine at the time, so I was privy to a lotta gossip in those days), that it had been David Merrick's idea to reassemble the 'HELLO, DOLLY!' team of Michael Stewart, Jerry Herman and Gower Champion to write the new 'SOME LIKE IT HOT' musical. And work actually began on it, with this team rethinking the musical. Sugar was now the bandleader in their version!? But then there were apparently many disagreements along the way as to where the show was heading, and Merrick really wanted them to stick closer to the original screenplay's story. So Stewart and Herman soon departed (were fired?), and others (Peter Stone, Jule Styne, Bob Merrill) were brought in to replace them. I wonder if any of that's true. I wonder if this new version is truly being rethought in "different directions." Hmmm. |
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