The run closed August 28, 1982
- Opened
- October 8, 1979
- Closed
- August 28, 1982
- Performances
- 1,208
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Mark Hellinger Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 19th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it47 named
Tom Boyd
Peter Leeds
Jimmy Mathews
Jonathan Aronson
Laura Booth
Christine Busini
Diane Duncan
Chris Elia
Debbie Gornay
Barbara Hanks
Jeri Kansas
Barbara Mandra
Robin Manus
Faye Fujisaki Mar
Eddie Pruett
Michael Radigan
Linda Ravinsky
Michele Rogers
Rose Scudder
Terpsie Toon
Jeff Veazey
Patti Watson
Carol Ann Basch
Chaz Chase
Carole Cotter
Michael Allen Davis
Kimberly Dean
Laurie Diamond
Kaylyn Dillehay
Candy Durkin
Phyllis Frew
Maxie Furman
Lesley Kingley
Clare Leach
Dirk Lumbard
Ken Mitchell
Melanie Montana
Regina Newsome
9 of these 47 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 38 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
- Ernest Flatt, Rudy Tronto
- Choreographer
- Ernest Flatt
- Producer
- Terry Allen Kramer & Harry Rigby
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.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
8 October: Sugar Babies, a tribute to old-time vaudeville starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney, opens at the Mark Hellinger Theater and runs for 1,208 performances. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 30
- It buried the soft gentility of Sugar Babies. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 293
- In 1969, she took over the title role in the original production of Mame and also appeared in Sugar Babies (1979). Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 261
- ROONEY, MICKEY (BORN JOE YULE JR., 1920– ). Hollywood child star who, as an adult, starred in Sugar Babies (1979) and in the early 1990s was a replacement Clem Rogers in The Will Rogers Follies. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 339
- Noting 20th Century Fox’s Wiz (1975) windfall, and feeling their own pockets tingling from investments in Dancin’ (1978) and Sugar Babies (1979), Columbia came in on Comin’ Uptown. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 211
- Sugar Babies pretty much illustrated why burlesque was dead and gone, but there’s no accounting for taste, and those unpredictable audiences decided to embrace Mickey and Ann and the whole candy-corny lot. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 908
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 character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Sugar Babies at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.