Perhaps my stubborn resistance to the source material (heterosexual cross dressers? no thanks) increased my enjoyment of this adaptation of a Billy Wilder classic, but plenty of people in the preview audience were laughing a lot more loudly than I. NaTasha Yvette Williams commands the stage with her Black sass, Christian Borle's timing is impeccable and Adrianna Hicks accomplishes the extraordinary feat of making you forget Marilyn but J. Harrison Gee steals the show, adding a sweet believability to the contemporary update, credited to Matthew Lopez (The Inheritance) and Amber Ruffin. Although Marc Shaiman's serviceable score grows monotonous in the second act it doesn't matter because the dancing throughout is sensational. If you like watching superbly talented, gorgeously costumed chorus girls and boys do their thing, Some Like It Hot is your musical.
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