‘Some Like It Hot’ Musical Sets Chicago Pre-Broadway Engagement
The Marc Shaiman-Scott Wittman stage musical adaptation of Some Like It Scorching will make its pre-Broadway debut subsequent March in Chicago, with, as beforehand introduced, Tony Award-winner Casey Nicholaw directing and a ebook by The Inheritance playwright Matthew Lopez.
The restricted engagement dates – March 2-April 4, 2021 – of the manufacturing had been reported as we speak by the Chicago Tribune. The pre-Broadway run is about for Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre.
The difference of the 1959 Billy Wilder movie from Shaiman and Wittman, who gained a Tony for Hairspray, was first introduced by the Shubert Group and producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan in Could 2018. Zadan died in August of that yr.
The traditional movie comedy starred Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon as jazz musicians who disguise themselves as members of a feminine band after witnessing a mob homicide in Prohibition-era Chicago. Within the movie, Marilyn Monroe performed the band’s singer Sugar.
Casting has not been introduced for the stage manufacturing.
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