Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on ‘Some Like It Hot,’ the lessons they’ve learned on Broadway — and why Steven Spielberg is an ideal audience.
: Yes, very much! What makes him so great is that he’s like an audience member. He watches things like an audience, with a keen eye.: Some of them helped out at the reading, but it’s still a ways off. It wouldn’t actually go until maybe around this time next year.: The fact that it’s not exactly the TV show means it’s not exactly the characters from the TV show. So it doesn’t necessarily make sense for people on the TV show to play them. But one never knows.
— the musical version of the classic movie — on Broadway. When were the seeds planted for that particular project?and within that is the musical about Marilyn Monroe. And we even wrote anumber for Marilyn in that musical. But the producers of the TV show, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, had gotten the rights to the movie and they were thinking of doing the version of it. We were in London doingJ. Harrison Ghee and Christian Borle in SOME LIKE IT HOT.Unfortunately these days, yes.
Spoiler: there’s a huge twist when the character Jerry, who is hiding out from the mob by dressing in drag, realizes that they feel much more alive dressed as a woman. It becomes a life-changing and eye-opening experience for the character, which is a stark departure from the original story. How did you realize that was going to be a turn that character was going to make?: Right from the very beginning we thought that, along with our Sugar being played by a Black actress [Adrianna Hicks].
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