Sugar, 1972

The run closed June 23, 1973

Opened

April 9, 1972

Closed

June 23, 1973

Performances

505

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Majestic Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and carry a performance count, this is the 54th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it44 named

Nicole Barth
Andy Bew
Roger Bigelow
Dick Bonelle
Gerard Brentte
Eileen Casey
Harriett Conrad
Gene Cooper
Terry Cullen
Linda Gandell
Gene Gebauer
Robin Hoctor
Alan Kass
Leslie Latham
Debra Lyman
Peggy Lyman
Richard Maxon
Dale Muchmore
Sally Neal
Alexander Orfaly
Don Percassi
Marilou Sirinek
Pamela Sousa
Kathleen Witmer
Mary Zahn
Lauren Draper
Lynne Gannaway
Robert L Hultman
Karen Kristin
Marianne Selbert
Lana Sloniger

13 of these 44 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 31 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Gower Champion

Choreographer

Gower Champion

Producer

David Merrick

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 1 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Sugar, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

CLIVE BARNES, TIMES Well, it finally happened. After many previews, postponements and assorted pandemonia, Sugar officially opened last night. More Opening Nights On Broadway Steven Suskin, p. 897

• Robert Morse and Tony Roberts in Sugar portrayed an actual homosexual character. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 290
• Abbott's next two shows, Brown Sugar and All That Glitters, were not successful. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 233
• Old-time burlesque has been glorified in Broadway shows like Grind and the enormously successful Sugar Babies, showing that good burlesque never goes out of fashion. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 113
• Bob Merrill, who provided Styne with such strong lyrics for Funny Girl and not such strong ones for Prettybelle, was unable to repeat his popular success with Sugar (4/9/72; 505 performances), a musical adaptation of the Billy Wilder movie Some Like It Hot. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 540
• He created music and lyrics for New Girl in Town (1957), Take Me Along (1959), and Carnival! (1961), and lyrics for Funny Girl (1964) and Sugar (1972). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 258

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 1 recordings of Sugar document this run, if any.
• No show page for Sugar. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.