Sugar.
Sugar is a stage musical based on the film Some Like It Hot.
Cast[]
- Robert Morse - Jerry
- Tony Roberts - Joe
- Elaine Joyce - Sugar Kane
- Sheila Smith - Sweet Sue
- Cyril Ritchard - Osgood Fielding Jr.
- Alan Kass - Bienstock
Plot[]
Two unemployed musicians, bass player Jerry and saxophone player Joe, witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. In order to escape gangster Spats Palazzo and his henchmen, they dress as women and join Sweet Sue and Her Society Syncopaters, an all-female band about to leave town for an engagement at a Miami Beach hotel.
Complications arise when Joe, now known as Josephine, falls in love with beautiful band singer Sugar Kane, who has a slight drinking problem that tends to interfere with her ability to choose a romantic partner wisely. More than anything, Sugar wants to marry a millionaire, prompting Joe to disguise himself as the man of her dreams.
Meanwhile, wealthy and elderly Osgood Fielding, Jr. is pursuing Daphne, unaware she really is Jerry in drag. As much as he knows he needs to reveal his true gender to his over-amorous paramour, Jerry is beginning to enjoy all the expensive gifts bestowed upon him on a regular basis.
Total chaos erupts when Spatz and his gang descend upon the hotel and realize who Josephine and Daphne really are.
Musical numbers[]
- Act I
- "When You Meet a Man in Chicago" - Sweet Sue and All Girl Band
- "Penniless Bums" - Jerry, Joe and Unemployed Musicians
- "Tear the Town Apart" - Spats's Gang
- "The Beauty That Drives Men Mad" - Jerry and Joe
- "We Could Be Close" - Jerry and Sugar Kane
- "Sun on My Face" - Jerry, Joe, Sugar Kane, Sweet Sue, Bienstock and Ensemble
- "November Song" - Millionaires and Osgood Fielding, Jr.
- "Sugar" - Jerry and Joe
- Act II
- "Hey, Why Not!" - Sugar Kane and Ensemble
- "Beautiful Through and Through" - Osgood Fielding, Jr. and Jerry
- "What Do You Give to a Man Who's Had Everything?" - Joe and Sugar Kane
- "Magic Nights" - Jerry
- "It's Always Love" - Joe
- "When You Meet a Man in Chicago" (Reprise) - Jerry, Joe, Sugar Kane, Sweet Sue, All Girl Band and Chorus Line