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

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 12/30/23 at 11:30pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "ACL2006 said: "I see this show being heavily produced by Regional theaters in 3-4 years and then community theaters in 5-6 years."

For licensing, the challenge with this show will always be that it requires a large number of people of color. Data shows that musicals with that level of specificity don't get licensed nearly as much as shows that could be performed by people of any race. It requires a level of diversity of talent pool that some places just don't have. (This impacts community and school licensing more than the big Regional theatres)"

Spot-on. This is also why I can’t do Hairspray. Believe me, I wish we had the diversity for these shows.

[quizking101]

Posted: 12/31/23 at 8:13am

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 

[FANtomFollies]

Posted: 12/31/23 at 10:32am

I saw SLIH way back during previews and while I enjoyed it overall, I felt like it was 80% there but the creatives weren't interested in making major changes to improve it. I thought it needed several songs and scenes to be cut or rewritten, as well as the character of Sugar needed to be more clearly defined. Maybe someday it will get revived with a director who takes steps to improve it. 

[MrsSallyAdams]

Posted: 10/27/24 at 11:24pm

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.