WPNCR STAGE DOOR. From Pia Haas, Westchester Broadway Theatre, April 17, 2010(Edited):  WBT is coming through to put a smile on your face, a leer on your lips, and fill your evening with side-splitting laughter with just the right cocktail to forget your troubles: Starting a run April 29th,  an evening of hilarity, hi-jinks, high camp seasoned with a spicey blonde when Stutler and Funking, the WBT empressarios present the musical revival of Billy Wilder's hilarious movie, Some Like it Hot!

What's the best way for two unemployed male musicians to escape the Chicago mob? Dress up in drag and join an all-female band on a train headed for Miami, of course! That's Michael O'Steen, Jennifer Lee Andrews and Keith Bernardo reprising the Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon roles a previous smash Westchester Broadway Theatre production of SUGAR, a WBT revival of  SUGAR  with  Colleen Hawks in the Marylin role, Gary Lynch in the Curtis role and Eric Santagata in the Jack Lemmon role comes back April 29 at the WBT. Photo by John Vecchiolla.

The Hit Musical, SUGAR is based on Billy Wilder's 1959 comic masterpiece; "Some Like It Hot," starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. Two musicians in 1920s Chicago are unwilling witnesses to a showdown between rival bootleggers and need to get out of town fast. The only jobs to be had are in an all-girl band conveniently headed for sunny Miami. Their problems aren't over by a longshot, though: both fall for the band's lead singer, Sugar Kane; one of them becomes the object of affection for an elderly millionaire - and then the Chicago mobsters show up. Memorable musical numbers include “Penniless Bums”, “The Beauty That Drives Men Mad”, “We Could Be Close”, “Doin' It for Sugar”, “What Do You Give (To a Man Who Has Everything?)”, “Beautiful Through and Through” and “November Song”.

Charles Repole, a favorite of WBT, will direct the Production.  Michael O’Steen will Choreograph and Jeff Tanski is the Musical Director. The winning production team includes Steve Loftus (Scenic Design), Matthew Hemesath (Costume Design), Andrew Gmoser (Lighting Design), Jon Hatton (Sound Design), Victor Lukas (Production Stage Manager & Properties Design), and Ron Rogell (Assistant Stage Mgr.).

Produced by David Merrick and directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, SUGAR opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre on April 9, 1972 and closed on June 23, 1973 after 505 performances. The opening night cast included Robert Morse as Jerry/Daphne, Tony Roberts as Joe/Josephine, Elaine Joyce as Sugar Kane, Cyril Ritchard as Osgood Fielding, Jr., Sheila Smith as Sweet Sue, and Steve Condos as Spats Palazzo.  The West End production, starring Tommy Steele, opened at the Prince Edward Theatre on March 19, 1992 and closed on June 20, 1992. The production reverted to the film's title of Some Like It Hot.  A 2002-03 US National Tour starred Tony Curtis as Osgood Fielding, Jr.

LAST 2 WEEKS!

This weekend and next are the last two weeks to catch NINE, with Robert Cuccioli. The sophisticated tour de force of the secret lives of a legendary Italian Director, that WPCNR'S insightful, demanding and ruthless theatre critic called "a glam show, a string of clever, introspective ballads, laments and lampoon blockbuster production numbers. Robert Cuccioli a silky Sinatra with machismo, a lusty Tom Jones with subtlety, a hunky  Tom Selleck with very effective and attractive 80s sensitivity."

For ticket information and showtimes of SUGAR and the final Westchester Broadway Theatre performances of NINE, go to www.BroadwayTheatre.com or call the box office at 914-592-2222. Do not forget an evening at WBT includes a full-course dinner with your entertainment.