The run closed June 23, 1973
- Opened
- April 9, 1972
- Closed
- June 23, 1973
- Performances
- 505
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record 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
Hal Norman
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
12 of these 44 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 32 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.
Characters7 roles recorded
Elaine Joyce Sugar "Kane" Kowalczyk
Robert Morse Jerry/Daphne
Tony Roberts Joe/Josephine
Cyril Ritchard Osgood Fielding
Sheila Smith Sweet Sue
Steve Condos Spats
Alan Kass Bienstock
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
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.
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. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Sugar at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.