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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