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Sugar Babies

Sugar Babies

Shows · Sugar Babies

Like Star and Garter, Wine, Women and Song, and Michael Todd’s Peep Show of an earlier era, Sugar Babies was an idealized version of a burlesque show. According to sketch writer Ralph G. Allen, who conceived the entertainment with co-producer Harry Rigby, the show was a celebration of American variety entertainment from 1905 to 0930 and the aim was to recreate as authentically as possible some of the classic low-come…

Opened
1979
Performances
1,208
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Jimmy McHugh, etc.Lyrics: Dorothy Fields, etc.

Productions1 on Broadway

1979 Mark Hellinger Theatre Original. October 8, 1979 · Ernest Flatt, Rudy Tronto 1,208 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals available

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In the literature27 passages

It buried the soft gentility of Sugar Babies. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p293

In 1969, she took over the title role in the original production of Mame and also appeared in Sugar Babies (1979). book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p261

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. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p339

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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p211

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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p908

Hellzafloppin, they called it. Whatever became of Soupy Sales, anyway? book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p1041

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