Howard Miller takes a look at Some Like It Hot at the Shubert Theatre:
You coulda knocked me over with a feather when I suddenly realized that the big splashy show with the toe-tapping score and tap-toeing dance numbers up there on the stage of the Shubert Theatre, the one with the look and style of those treasured "all singing, all dancing" extravaganzas from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, the one that was making me grin and clap and dance in my seat with a delight I hadn't felt in years, is poised to be the smash hit of the season, and that at least one of its songs, the one whose title is the first eight words of this inordinately long sentence, will likely become a popular addition to the cabaret and nightclub circuit. The show is called Some Like It Hot, and the name alone is an overly modest piece of truth in advertising for a production that is sure to draw crowds of theatergoers craving a first-class, good old-fashioned, rousing original Broadway musical.. |
