Some Like It Hot

Based on the movie namesake

Aleksandar Marinković

Principal Drama Artist of the National Theater in Niš and theatre member for twenty-five years. During this period, he has played more than fifty roles in the home theater and numerous roles in other theaters in Serbia as well (Kragujevac, Zaječar, Lazarevac, Belgrade, Leskovac), etc.

He has won numerous awards at important theater festivals in the country: The Days of Comedy in Jagodina (twice), The Festival of Professional Theaters of Serbia “Joakim Vujić” (Grand Prix), The Festival of Premiere performances in Aleksinac, “The Days of Milivoje Živanović” in Požarevac, “Vršac Theater Autumn”. He is the winner of the Golden Badge, awarded by the Cultural and Educational Association of Serbia. He was engaged in theater pedagogy.

Significant roles: Volođa in Dear Jelena Sergejevna (B. Dimitrijević), Petručio in The Taming of the Shrew (M. Karadzic), Prince of Wales in Edmund Keane (I. Mensur), Ninković in The Lady Minister (D. Jovanović), Mića the Army Officer in Limunacija (N. Bradić), Leka in The Government and its opposition (E. Savin), Zobar in Gypsies fly up to sky (D. Stanojević).

A note from the director

I love the musical. I truly love, respect and look forward to this theatrical genre, whether as a protagonist, director or spectator. I consider it special and close. For me, it is the theatrical form of the future. What I have in mind are not only the Broadway franchises and musical comedies, but rather serious ideas and topics implemented through this divine genre form.

Recently, I watched on the national television a guest appearance by my professor Svetozar Rapajić, director, professor emeritus, former dean of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, one of the founders of the Terazije Theater and a pioneer of musical theater, talking about the musical as a phenomenon. He draws attention to the fact that this, unjustly pushed aside and by means of a pejorative term “boulevard” treated genre, in fact provides a talented author with an unfathomable and endless range of topics and ideas, as an opportunity to deal with this form thoroughly, honestly and deeply. They are of social, political, welfare oriented, to philosophical nature. My esteemed professor reminds that the great European musical theaters have been getting their fame by combining important and great themes with the specifics of this genre.

And I, enchanted by, delighted and irrevocably in love with that theatrical embrace that is made up with the enticing tone of our orchestra’s saxophone, the skillful turn of a seductive female dancer, the divine voice of a female choir singer and the word of a good male actor, begin my first directorial leaps in the musical with vaudeville comedy and a musical-stage homage to the timeless film “Some Like It Hot” from 1959. My musical is a panegyris to my favorite film comedy, a magnificent acting trio and a famous director.

Long live the musical!

Aleksandar Marinković

Song SAX AND BASS WANTED

Music: Nikola Dragović

Lyrics: Branislav Nedić

Sung by: Stefan Mladenović

Song BEAUTIES

Musical arrangement: Filip Stipsić, Predrag Branković

Lyrics: Branislav Nedić

Sung by: Aleksandar Marinković, Uroš Milojević

Song I LOVE JAZZ

Musical arrangement: Mila Pužić, Natalija Stamenković, Milica Krasić

Lyrics: Branislav Nedić

Sung by: Mila Pužić, Natalija Stamenković, Milica Krasić, Jasminka Hodžić, Maja Dejanović, Bratislava Milić

Song I AM RICH

Music: Aleksandar Stevanović

Lyrics: Branislav Nedić

Sung by: Jovan Krstić

Song ALL FOR HER

Music: Aleksandar Stevanović

Lyrics: Aleksandar Marinković, Uroš Milojević

Sung by: Aleksandar Marinković, Uroš Milojević

Song BEACH

Musical arrangement: Goran Savić, Nikola Stanojević

Lyrics: Branislav Nedić

Sung by: Mila Pužić, Natalija Stamenković, Milica Krasić, Maja Dejanović, Bratislava Milić

Song I LIVE A CRAZY LIFE

Musical arrangement: Marijan Cvetanović

Lyrics: Branislav Nedić

Sung by: Dragana Mićalović

Song VEREN SAM

Music and lyrics: Aleksandar Stevanović

Sung by: Uroš Milojević

Song I WANNA BE LOVED BY YOU

Musical rrangement: Nenad Tančić

Sung by: Dragana Mićalović

Song THIS WORLD

Music: Dragana Mićalović, Aleksandar Stevanović

Lyrics: Dragana Mićalović, Natalija Stamenković

Sung by: Dragana Mićalović