Sugar
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Sugar is a 1972 musical with a book by Peter Stone, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The musical is based on the 1959 film Some Like It Hot, which was adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L.
- Opened
- 1972
- Performances
- 505
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1972 | Majestic Theatre Original. April 9, 1972 · Gower Champion | 505 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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36 passages naming Sugar, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Robert Morse and Tony Roberts in Sugar portrayed an actual homosexual character. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p290
Abbott's next two shows, Brown Sugar and All That Glitters, were not successful. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p233
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. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p113
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. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p540
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). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p258
There'd been talk of naming the house the Merrick—with Merrick’s upcoming Sugar on tap—but it was decided instead to honor that great man of the theatre, Irene’s coproducer Jerry Minskoff. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p706
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