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Some Like It Hot
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 3w, 4m, 1gnc (adult) plus ensemble
Book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman
Based on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture Some Like It Hot
Image: 2022 Broadway Production (Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)
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Cast Size
3w, 4m, 1gnc (adult) plus ensemble -
Duration
More than 120 minutes (2 hours) -
Target Audience
Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)
Accolades
Winner! Four 2023 Tony Awards, including Best Orchestrations
Nominee: Twelve 2023 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Book and Original Score
Winner! Eight 2023 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical, Book, Orchestrations and Lyrics
Winner! 2023 Drama League Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical
Winner! Five 2023 Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Score and Orchestrations
Winner! 2023 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album
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Summary
Based on the beloved 1959 MGM film of the same name, Some Like It Hot centers on Joe and Jerry, two musicians who are forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit. With gangsters hot on their heels, they disguise themselves and take on new identities as “Josephine” and “Daphne” and end up getting recruited into Sweet Sue’s all-women band. Retaining the slapstick humor and glamour of the original film, the musical ventures into new territory, exploring the characters’ self-discoveries and backgrounds with a fresh perspective.
Some Like It Hot won more theatre awards than any show in the 2022-2023 Broadway season, including four Tony Awards® and the awards for Best Musical from the Drama Desk, the Drama League and the Outer Critics Circle. In March 2023, Concord Theatricals Recordings released Some Like It Hot (Original Broadway Cast Recording), which won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Musical Theater Album in February 2024.
History
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Performing Groups
Act I
At a glittering art deco nightclub in 1933, Sweet Sue McGinty welcomes a high-spirited crowd to Chicago’s hottest speakeasy (“What Are You Thirsty For?”). After the Feds raid the club, Sue decides to leave Chicago and head west with an all-girl band.
Meanwhile, two of the club’s musicians – saxophonist Joe, a charming ladies’ man, and bass-playing Jerry, his levelheaded best friend – head to the Cheetah Club to look for a new gig. The club manager refuses to hire Jerry, who is Black, but Jerry and Joe, calling themselves the Tip Tap Twins, insist that “You Can't Have Me (“If You Don't Have Him”).” Fortunately, the club’s owner, a powerful gangster named Spats Colombo, takes a shine to the duo and hires them to perform that evening.
After their successful debut, Jerry and Joe enter Spat’s office to request better billing – just in time to witness Spats and his gunmen murdering Toothpick Charlie and his goons. With Spats in pursuit, Jerry and Joe escape into the chorus girls’ dressing room, where Joe comes up with a plan: They’ll disguise themselves as women, join Sue’s all-girl band, head west to San Diego and escape to Mexico (“Vamp!”).
The next morning at the train station, Joe and Jerry, now Josephine and Daphne, finagle their way into joining Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopators (“I'm California Bound”).
On the train, Joe falls for the band’s beautiful lead singer, Sugar Kane, who admits to Josephine that saxophone players get her motor purring (“A Darker Shade of Blue”).
As the Syncopators cross the country playing gigs, Sugar, Josephine and Daphne “Take It Up a Step” by adding a new act: a dance routine featuring the three of them as The Tip Tap Trio.
Joe, who struggles to pass as Josephine, marvels at Jerry’s ease in becoming a woman. Jerry, feeling more and more empowered as Daphne, schools a greedy bar manager (“Zee Bap”).
Sugar and Josephine grow closer, and Sugar shares her childhood dreams of movie stardom (“At the Old Majestic Nickel Matinee”).
Arriving in San Diego, the band checks into the glamorous Hotel Coronado. The hotel’s owner, the charmingly eccentric Osgood Fielding III, falls instantly for Daphne (“Poor Little Millionaire”).
Joe, dressed as a man, heads off to escape but bumps into Sugar. Flustered, he impersonates Kip Von Der Plotz, Hollywood screenwriter. Sugar is smitten.
That night, Sue and the Syncopators – minus saxophonist Josephine – play the hotel ballroom. Osgood and Joe/Kip sit in the audience, admiring Daphne and Sugar. Meanwhile, Spats and his goons, trailed by Federal Agent Mulligan, arrive in pursuit of Joe and Jerry (“Some Like It Hot”).
Act II
Later, in their hotel room, Josephine claims to have missed the show due to food poisoning. Osgood invites Daphne and the girls to join him for some late-night dancing in Mexico (“Let’s Be Bad”).
Sugar and Kip share a romantic evening, fantasizing about the movie they’d make together (“Dance the World Away”).
At a beautiful moonlit cantina in Mexico, Osgood tells Daphne that he was born Pedro Francisco Alvarez, and he has always been two people at once. Recognizing Daphne’s uniqueness, he asks her to marry him (“Fly, Mariposa, Fly”).
The next morning, back in San Diego, Daphne tells Jerry that she has discovered herself: she is both Daphne and Jerry, and she’s engaged (“You Coulda Knocked Me Over with a Feather”). Daphne tells Joe it’s time for him to be honest with himself, too. At rehearsal, Joe battles his conscience and finally decides to tell Sugar the truth (“He Lied When He Said Hello”).
Before the show, Osgood stops by the dressing room to drop off a note and gift necklace for Daphne. Sue introduces the girls to their new investor: Spats Colombo. After the others leave, Sue catches Joe without his wig, and, deducing the truth, tells Joe and Jerry to play this one last show before making a quick exit to Mexico.
Joe realizes he’ll have to say goodbye to Sugar. Giving her the necklace Osgood left for Daphne, Joe reads the note, pretending it’s a farewell from Kip. Devastated, Sugar puts her heart and soul into that night’s performance (“Ride Out the Storm”).
On stage, Joe removes his Josephine wig and starts to tell Sugar the truth. Sugar slaps him, but Spats rises with a gun in his hand, setting off a wild chase. Spats and his goons pursue Joe and Daphne, Agent Mulligan trails Spats, and Sue, the Syncopators and the hotel staff add to the mayhem (“Tip Tap Trouble”). In the end, Mulligan catches Spats and his henchmen. Joe steps up as a witness to Toothpick Charlie’s murder, and the goons corroborate his story. Joe apologizes to Sugar, who cautiously forgives him, and Osgood offers to finance the band. Before Daphne can explain herself, Osgood says he understands, and he thinks she’s perfect.
Months later, at Daphnecita’s, the hottest new nightclub in Los Angeles, Sweet Sue, the Syncopators and the happy couples celebrate the end of Prohibition (“Baby, Let’s Get Good”).
JOE/JOSEPHINE
JERRY/DAPHNE
SUGAR
SWEET SUE
OSGOOD
MULLIGAN
SPATS
MINNIE
DOLORES
MACK
NELLIE
VIVIAN
GINGER
SONNY
TOOTHPICK CHARLIE
BAR MANAGER
MAN WITH SUITCASE
ENSEMBLE – Society Syncopators, gangsters, porters, bellhops, etc.
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Time Period 1930s
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Setting Chicago and San Diego, 1933.
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Features Period Costumes
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Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
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Cautions
- Alcohol
- Gun Shots
- Strong Language
- Mild Adult Themes
- Smoking
Media
“A star-spangled, toe-tapping, show-stopping lollapalooza!” – The Observer
“Flat-out entertainment... a super-sized, all-out song-and-dance spectacular.” – The New York Times
“Pure pleasure... racing to its farcical climax, the new musical Some Like It Hot works up a sizzling head of steam.” – The Wall Street Journal
“Fresh, clever, and briskly entertaining.” – The New York Sun
“Dandy twists and turns, razzmatazz dancing and a whole lotta energy... new perspectives bring sizzle to this bright Broadway musical.” – Variety
“Delectable... contains echoes of Chicago – another high-kicking, booze-swilling retro romp set in the Windy City – but Hot is less cynical and more life-affirming, serving up the sweet end of the lolly. The score, by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray), is bright and diverse, with raucously jazzy tauntings (‘What Are You Thirsty For?’), Cole Porter-ish odes to hedonism (‘Let’s Be Bad’) and sultry ballads.” – The Village Voice
Videos
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Some Like It Hot – Broadway Trailer
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Some Like It Hot at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
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Some Like It Hot – Broadway Ad
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“Let's Be Bad” Official Music Video
Photos
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Image: 2022 Broadway Production (Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)
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Image: 2022 Broadway Production (Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade)
Music
Music Samples
Act I
“What Are You Thirsty For?” – Sweet Sue and Ensemble
“You Can’t Have Me (If You Don’t Have Him)” – Joe/Josephine and Jerry/Daphne
“Vamp!” – Joe/Josephine and Jerry/Daphne
“I’m California Bound” – Sweet Sue, Joe/Josephine, Jerry/Daphne, Sugar and Ensemble
“A Darker Shade of Blue” – Sugar
“Take It up a Step” – Sugar, Joe/Josephine, Jerry/Daphne and Ensemble
“Zee Bap” – Sweet Sue, Joe/Josephine, Jerry/Daphne and Ensemble
“At the Old Majestic Nickel Matinee” – Sugar
“Poor Little Millionaire” – Osgood and Ensemble
“Some Like It Hot” – Sweet Sue, Sugar, Jerry/Daphne and Ensemble
Act II
“Let’s Be Bad” – Osgood, Jerry/Daphne and Ensemble
“Dance the World Away” – Joe/Josephine, Sugar and Ensemble
“Fly, Mariposa, Fly” – Osgood and Ensemble
“You Coulda Knocked Me Over with a Feather” – Jerry/Daphne
“He Lied When He Said Hello” – Joe/Josephine and Ensemble
“Ride Out the Storm” – Sugar
“Tip Tap Trouble” – Company
“Baby, Let’s Get Good” – Company
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Musical Style Classic Broadway, Jazz
Licensing & Materials
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