SOME LIKE IT HOT On Broadway - Reviews & News Thread — Page 42

Jordan Catalano said: "That was great tonight. I do love this show and I’ll miss it a lot, hopefully I’ll be able to catch it on the West End. Several moments where actors were visibly moved by the response they got after their songs. I could see Ghee and Hicks tear up after two of their songs. A nice short speech from Nicholaw at curtain call. He was joined onstage the whole creative team which was nice to see. I was hoping for the impossible that Mariah Carey would come out lol"

I happened to be passing through Shubert Alley coming back from PURLIE when I saw Nicholaw, Ruffin, Shaiman, Wittman, and Lopez bolting out the house entrance toward the stage door, so that tracks 

Just saw the tour. I agree with most of this group. It feels like a safe, family friendly rewrite of a sex farce. A friend compared it to Anything Goes. But I’ve seen productions of that show which were hornier than this. The only sexual chemistry tonight was coming from the dance chorus.

The second act’s better than the first. Osgood gets the best material. Sugar gets the worst. Everyone else is caught in between. To be fair, I’ve seen Sugar, and that material’s inconsistent too. Neither musical knows what to do with Sugar herself. Because there’s not much to the character. She was there for Monroe to pour her eccentricities and darkness into.