money Fayetteville native J. Harrison Ghee stars in new Broadway musical ‘Some Like It Hot’
Fayetteville native and E.E. Smith High School alum J. Harrison Ghee is starring in a new Broadway production of “Some Like it Hot” — a musical based on the 1959 comedy movie that starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
The show opened on Sunday at the Shubert Theatre in New York following preview performances.
“The musical adaptation updates the 1959 comedy classic about Prohibition-era jazz musicians Joe and Jerry who witness a mob hit and flee Chicago by disguising themselves as the newest members of an all-female band,” says a news release about Ghee’s appearance. “Things get complicated when the two men fall for the band’s lead singer.”
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Ghee, 33, co-stars with Christian Borle as the guys on the run from the mob, and Adrianna Hicks as the band’s lead singer.
“Our team has worked tirelessly to make sure that we found the humor in circumstance and pure entertainment value and not based on the tropes of two men in dresses,” said Ghee, who has been a drag performer and identifies as nonbinary. “We are set in the 1930s, and honor the classic MGM movie for what it is, but this production is through the lens of the world we live in today,” the 2007 E.E. Smith graduate said.
Television credits for Ghee, who previously appeared on Broadway in "Kinky Boots" and "Mrs. Doubtfire," include HBO’s “High Maintenance, Netflix’s “Raising Dion,” and the upcoming Fox series “Accused.”
Senior North Carolina reporter Paul Woolverton can be reached at 910-261-4710 and pwoolverton@gannett.com.
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