Choreography awards for Some Like It Hot
| Year | Award | Choreographer | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Drama Desk Award | Casey Nicholaw | Won |
| 2023 | Tony Award | Casey Nicholaw | Won |
Productions are listed under the year of the award; revivals can bring new choreography — and new nominations — for the same show.
About the show
Some Like It Hot is a 2022 musical comedy with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman, and a book by Matthew López and Amber Ruffin. It is based on the 1959 MGM/UA feature film Some Like It Hot, which in turn was based on the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. The musical, like the film, follows the story of a pair of male musicians who disguise themselves as women to escape from gangsters after witnessing a murder.
The show received positive reviews from critics, and went on to receive a leading 13 nominations at the 76th Tony Awards, including Best Musical, with J. Harrison Ghee getting a nomination for and subsequently winning Best Leading Actor in a Musical. This makes Ghee one of the two first openly non-binary performers to be nominated for and win a Tony Award.
Award data from Wikipedia lists of Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier choreography awards (CC BY-SA 4.0).