Sugar

Productions1 on Broadway

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In the literature36 passages

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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