| Some Like It Hot Friday Night (Many Spoilers) | |
| Posted by: ianx73 02:30 pm EST 11/20/22 | |
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| I liked it a lot. Had no expectations but did wonder why were they doing it. ( Sugar was a flop) but I did think it was going to be color blindy and too politically correct. It's not that at all The show works because everyone involved made some very smart choices and they’re all show biz smart people at the top of their game. Adrianna Hicks as Sugar does nothing to compete with the memory of Monroe (as if anyone could) She makes Sugar Kane her own. She has a couple of good torch songs and looks great but nothing like Monroe. First of all she’s black and it’s not ignored . No one pretends otherwise even though the idea of a black singer in an integrated band in 1933 is kind of unbelievable. But I guess possible The boys also do nothing to imitate Lemon and Curtis. Christian Borle is playing Josephine and is hilarious because he makes her into a very dowdy librarian type with a Baltimore accent (Says he was imitating his 4th grade teacher), Daphne is not hilarious in the way of Lemon but this non-binary black actor, J. Harrison Ghee is extravagantly talented They makes/make is it plural or singular) the character their own in a very surprising way. Their 2nd act number You Coulda Knocked Me Over With a Feather is a show stopper that gives I Am What I am a run or its money. There is no attempt to be slavish to the movie's plot. There’s no St Valentine's Day Massacre, no train berth scene, no Cary Grant impersonation but the plot remains intact in a very clever manner. The famous lines are incorporated into a song or a piece of throwaway dialogue. In other words, it’s not an attempt to musicalize the film but it is its own thing and because Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman are so talented a team they make it work;( unlike Tootsie which just dragged along trying to hit every point from the movie. plus it had a mediocre boring score) Supporting cast is excellent. NaTashaYvette Williams as a black Sweet Sue is very funny and looks like Bessie Smith and in act 2 Gladys Bentley. (I'm sure intentional) Kevin Del Aquila was sensational as Osgood (and he steals the show, a tall order here). The score is professional and serves the material without any great songs but it moves the show along in just the right way. There’s a lot of tap numbers (maybe too many) as the girls in the band are showgirls too. ( very smart choice) It never drags and moves along at a clip. It’s going to be a huge hit Try to get discount tickets soon cause they won't be around after the show opens We were in dead center orchestra. Amazing seats courtesy of TDF |
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