Some Like It Hot (Broadway)

[ivyfic]

Watched Some Like It Hot on Broadway this weekend--highly, highly recommended. It's an all singing, all tap dancing, all around good time. And if you're worried about some aspects of the original movie not having aged particularly well--this musical does a fantastic job updating it. Some of the leads (Sugar Kane, Sweet Sue, and Gerry/Daphne) are black, and the script acknowledges that reality. Joe/Josephine is more a fast talker whose mouth gets ahead of him than the creepy lech that Tony Curtis is in the film. And--most importantly--Gerry/Daphne is being played by nonbinary actor J. Harrison Ghee, and is now a story of realizing a nonbinary identity. When they first put on a dress and a wig, there's a moment of--oh. Someone behind the scenes must be trans, because so many moments in that plot line read so true. Honestly moved me to tears.

(Joe/Josephine is being played by Christian Borle, whose bio in the playbill lists a few high school and college productions, then reads: "Christian moved to NYC in 1995 and was immediately hired as an elf (Swifty) at Macy's Santaland, where he was immediately pink-listed for leaving before the holidays. He is not on social media. Won't you join him?"

I heard someone in the row behind me say, "Man, that Christian Borle really doesn't have many credits, but he's amazing!" And--dude. Christian Borle has two Tony Awards. That is the bio of someone who thinks you already know who he is.)

Comments

[meteordust]

This sounds like an amazing production! Especially Gerry/Daphne's storyline.