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Review: Zesty ‘Some Like It Hot’ on Broadway races to a whole new conclusion

Christian Borle, left, and J. Harrison Ghee in "Some Like It Hot" at the Shubert Theatre in New York.

NEW YORK — The new musical version of “Some Like It Hot” roars along like the 20th Century Limited, racing from rumba to samba and jive to paso doble, its book unfurling with breakneck zestiness and its fleet-footed dancers and singers speeding so fast from one transition to another that it feels as if someone has lit a fuse and the Shubert Theatre is set to burst into flames every night at 10:30. Imperative for everyone to get out alive!

That’s also true, one suspects, of how the creative artists were first feeling when

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