Some Like It Hot — the new Broadway musical inspired by the Billy Wilder film starring Marilyn Monroe — owes some of its origin story to Smash, according to composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. In fact, the two productions are in the same “multiverse.”
The creative partners behind the theatrical hit Hairspray from 2007 are alumnus of the cult NBC drama about the Great White Way. The song “Let’s Be Bad” first appeared in Smash as one of the numbers in the fake Broadway musical, Bombshell, about Monroe’s life. A rewritten version now appears in Some Like It Hot, which boasts music by Shaiman and lyrics by both Shaiman and Wittman. It’s now playing at the Shubert Theatre in NYC.
