Sugar
Majestic Theatre
Previews Began: March 29, 1972
Opening Night: April 9, 1972
Closing Night: June 23, 1973
Music: Jule Styne
Lyrics: Bob Merrill
Book: Peter Stone
Two musicians who witness the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929 disguise themselves as women who play in an all-girl band to avoid gangsters. One falls for the band’s sexy lead singer, while the other is pursued by an eccentric millionaire, in the musical adaptation of the 1959 film comedy Some Like It Hot.
Musical Numbers
ACT ONE
Windy City Marmelade………Sweet Sue, All Girl Band
Penniless Bums……Jerry, Joe, Unemployed Musicians
Tear the Town Apart……………………………Spats’s Gang
The Beauty That Drives Men Mad……………..Jerry, Joe
We Could Be Close………………………Jerry, Sugar Kane
Sun on My Face….Jerry, Joe, Sugar Kane, Sweet Sue,
Bienstock, Ensemble
November Song……..Millionaires, Osgood Fielding, Jr.
Sugar……………………………………………………….Jerry, Joe
ACT TWO
Hey, Why Not!………………………Sugar Kane, Ensemble
Beautiful Through and
Through…………………………..Osgood Fielding, Jr., Jerry
What Do You Give to a Man Who’s Had
Everything?……………………………………Joe, Sugar Kane
Magic Night’s………………………………………………….Jerry
It’s Always Love…………………………………………………Joe
When You Meet a Man in Chicago……………Jerry, Joe,
Sugar Kane,
Sweet Sue,
All Girl Band,
Chorus Line
CAST
OPENING NIGHT
Robert Morse Jerry
Cyril Ritchard Osgood Fielding, Jr.
Tony Roberts Joe
Elaine Joyce Sugar Kane
Sheila Smith Sweet Sue
Ken Ayers Cabdriver
“Chicago” Singer
Knuckles’s Gang
Nicole Barth Bass
Sunbather
Andy Bew Bellboy
Spats’s Gang
Roger Bigelow Spats’s Gang
George Blackwell Train Conductor
“Chicago” Singer
Pamela Blair Saxophone
Sunbather
Dick Bonelle Knuckles Norton
“Chicago” Singer
Gerard Brentte Dude
Sandra Brewer Swing Dancer
Eileen Casey Olga
Saxophone
Sunbather
Steve Condos Spats Palazzo
Harriett Conrad Piano
Gene Cooper Spats’s Gang
Terry Cullen Trombone
Arthur Faria Spats’s Gang
Linda Gandell Drums
Igors Gavon Poker Player
“Chicago” Singer
Gene GeBauer Spats’s Gang
Robin Hoctor Sunbather
Alan Kass Bienstock
Leslie Latham Trumpet
Debra Lyman Saxophone
Sunbather
Peggy Lyman Sunbather
Richard Maxon Knuckles’s Gang
John Mineo Spats’s Gang
Dale Muchmore Knuckles’s Gang
Sally Neal Saxophone
Sunbather
Hal Norman “Chicago” Singer
Alexander Orfaly Knuckles’s Gang
Don Percassi Spats’s Gang
Marilou Sirinek Trumpet
Pamela Sousa Sunbather
Kathleen Witmer Trombone
Mary Zahn Saxophone
Swings: Sandra Brewer, Denny Martin Flinn
REPLACEMENTS
George Blackwell Knuckles’s Gang
Pamela Blair Sugar Kane
Drums
Eileen Casey Trumpet
Gene Cooper Union Contractor
Lauren Draper Trumpet
Lynne Gannaway Saxophone
Robert L. Hultman Knuckles’s Gang
“Chicago” Singer
Karen Kristin Bass
Debra Lyman Marylou
Richard Maxon Spats’s Gang
Sally Neal Rosella
Don Percassi Cabdriver
Marianne Selbert Saxophone
Lana Sloniger Trumpet
Olga
Mary Zahn Dolores
Swing: David Bean
Standby: Scott Jarvis (Jerry)