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J. Harrison Ghee is snatching Tonys and making nonbinary history

Some Like It Hot has long been an old cross-dressing classic, but it got some very welcome queer updates when it was brought to the stage as a musical in 2022. The best of these comes from the adaptation of the Jerry/Daphne character; while the role was originally played by Jack Lemmon as a straight man in a dress, the musical sees the character come to live their truth as both Jerry and Daphne after getting engaged to an eccentric businessman.This new twist to the Jerry/Daphne character was debuted by nonbinary actor J.
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bisexual instagram President Gay Tony Awards Matthew López on ‘Some Like It Hot,’ Remaking ‘The Bodyguard’ and Directing the Gay Rom-Com ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’
Brent Lang Executive Editor As Matthew López prepared for the London debut of “The Inheritance,” his epic drama about the AIDS epidemic and its painful aftershocks, he was simultaneously outlining a first draft of “Some Like It Hot,” an effervescent re-imagining of the classic Billy Wilder film. The two shows could not have been more radically different. But López enjoyed toggling between comedy and tragedy. “I like working in extremes,” he says. “I like working in different modes.” Plus, he thinks that both productions benefitted from their author’s double act. “I got to live in both worlds at once,” López argues. “One helped the other. Doing the shows at the same time kept both projects in check. It prevented ‘The Inheritance’ from getting too dour and kept ‘Some Like It Hot’ from getting too lightweight. It brought some gravity to ‘Some Like It Hot’ and some levity to ‘The Inheritance.'”
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