Amber Ruffin to Co-Write Broadway Musical âSome Like It Hotâ
The Emmy-nominated writer and performer will work with Matthew López to adapt the comedy for the stage.
Amber Ruffin is getting her first taste of Broadway as a co-writer of the musical “Some Like It Hot.”Credit.Miranda Barnes for The New York Times
Published Feb. 10, 2021Updated Feb. 12, 2021
It may not be set to open on Broadway for another year, but the stage version of âSome Like It Hotâ announced on Wednesday that it had added Amber Ruffin as a co-writer. The comedian and writer becomes the first Black woman to join the creative team for the new musical, which she called a âgroundbreaking project.â