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Sugar

This zany musical adaptation of Some Like It Hot captures the heart and hilarity of the hit film and features a thrilling, jazzy score from Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, the composing team behind Funny Girl.

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Description

  • Full Length Musical
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Time Period: 1930s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Gun Shots, Mild Adult Themes
  • Orchestra Size: Large

  • Performance Group:
  • Dinner Theatre, Community Theatre, High School/Secondary, Professional Theatre, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Nominee! Four Tony Awards including Best Musical (1973)
    Winner! Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance - Robert Morse (1972)
    Winner! Theatre World Award - Elaine Joyce (1972)
Based on the film Some Like It Hot, Sugar follows the zany antics of two male musicians of the Prohibition era who witness a gang slaying. Hoping to hide from the mob, Jerry and Joe disguise themselves as "Daphne" and "Josephine" and join an all-female orchestra. Complications ensue when Joe falls for Sugar Kane, the group's lead singer.

Memorable musical numbers include "Penniless Bums," "The Beauty That Drives Men Mad," "We Could Be Close" and "Beautiful Through and Through."

Premiere Production: Sugar opened on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre on Aril 9, 1972, starring Robert Morse, Tony Roberts and Elaine Joyce. The show played for 505 performances, closing on June 23, 1973.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Drag Performance, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Expandable casting
  • Chorus Size: Large

  • SWEET SUE
    SUGAR KANE
    BIENSTOCK
    JOE (Josephine)
    JERRY (Daphne)
    MUSICIANS CONTRACTOR
    SPATS PALAZZO
    DUDE
    FIRST HOOD
    KNUCKLES NORTON
    SECOND HOOD
    TRAIN ANNOUNCER
    REPORTER
    CAB DRIVER
    OLGA
    DOLORES
    MARY LOU
    ROSELLA
    TRAIN CONDUCTOR
    BELLBOY
    SIR OSGOOD FIELDING
    FIRST HENCHMAN
    and
    THE GIRLS IN THE BAND, GARAGE MECHANIC, GANGSTERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, NEWSREELMEN and MILLIONAIRES.

    • Available Material

    Name Price
    Perusal Material Shipped immediately. This is optional. Order Now

    1 x Piano Conductor's Score
    1 x Libretto-Vocal Book

    		$24.00
    Rehearsal Material Shipped a minimum of 3 months before the last performance. This must be hired as a condition of the License to produce this show.

    1 x Piano Conductor's Score
    25 x Chorus Vocal & Prompt Books

    		 $550.00 +$135.00/pm
    Orchestral Material Shipped a minimum of 1 month before the last performance. This is optional.

    3 Violins
    1 Cello
    1 Bass

    I Reed I: Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet & Alto Saxophone (Optional: Alto Flute & Soprano Saxophone)
    1 Reed II: Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet & Alto Saxophone (Optional: Soprano Saxophone)
    1 Reed III: Clarinet and Tenor Saxophone (Optional: Oboe & English Horn)
    1 Reed IV: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone & Baritone Sax (Optional: Bassoon)

    1 Horn
    1 Trumpet I & II (Trumpet I optional double: Flugelhorn)
    1 Trumpet III
    1 Trombone I
    1 Trombone II (with Bass Trombone attachment)

    2 Percussion I & II:
    I:
    Snare Drum (Brushes & Sticks)
    Bass Drum
    Wood Block
    Cow Bell
    Triangle
    Cymbals: 2 Suspended
    hi-Hat
    Choke

    II:
    Timpani (2 Drums)
    Bells
    Vibraphone
    Xylophone (soft & hard mallets)
    Wood Block
    Bongos
    Slapstick
    Gong (Low)
    Bell Plate
    Maracas
    Machine Gun Sound

    1 Harp
    1 Guitar-Banjo

    		 $350.00 +$135.00/pm

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