Sugar

Original Broadway Production (1972)

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Production Info

Previews: March 29, 1972 (15 prev.)
Opening April 9, 1972
Closing: June 23, 1973
Length of Run: 505 perf.
Run Type: Open-ended

Location Info

Market: Broadway
Location: New York, NY

Credits Highlights

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Director and Choreographer

Cast

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Sweet Sue
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Bienstock
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Joe
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Jerry
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Spats Palazzo
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Dude
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Knuckles Norton
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Sugar Kane
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Olga
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Osgood Fielding, Jr.

Musical Numbers

Act One

  • Overture .... The Orchestra
  • Windy City Marmalade .... Sweet Sue and The All-Girl Band
  • Penniless Bums .... Jerry, Joe and the Unemployed Musicians
  • Tear the Town Apart .... Spats and His Gang
  • The Beauty That Drives Men Mad .... Jerry and Joe
  • We Could Be Close .... Jerry and Sugar
  • Sun on My Face .... Jerry, Joe, Sugar, Sweet Sue, Bienstock and Ensemble
  • November Song .... Osgood and the Millionaires
  • Sugar .... Jerry and Joe

Act Two

  • Entr'acte .... The Orchestra
  • Hey, Why Not! .... Sugar and Ensemble
  • Beautiful Through and Through .... Osgood and Jerry
  • What Do You Give to a Man Who Has Everything? .... Joe and Sugar
  • Magic Nights .... Jerry
  • It's Always Love .... Joe
  • When You Meet a Man in Chicago .... Jerry, Joe, Sugar, Sweet Sue, The All-Girl Band and Chorus Line

Additional Musical Numbers Lists

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Trivia & History

Early ads for the production listed a Broadway opening date of February 29, 1972. Even a couple of weeks after the opening of the first pre-Broadway engagement, which started at the Kennedy Center Opera House in Washington, D.C., on January 17, 1972, February 29 was still appearing in ads as the opening.

By the third week after the Kennedy Center opening, the date of the Broadway opening was changed to March 14, and another pre-Broadway engagement was added: two weeks at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia, which was to follow a two-week run at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto that had always been part of the schedule. At some point, another pre-Broadway engagement was added: three weeks at the Shubert in Boston.

Eventually, the Broadway opening was re-scheduled for April 6, a Thursday, with previews starting with an evening performance on Wednesday, March 29. Surprisingly, even though the production was playing a Monday through Saturday schedule, there were two performances on Sunday that week (April 2), with no day off till the following Sunday.

As late as Monday, April 3, listings for the production in the ABCs of New York newspapers still listed the opening as April 6, but by the following day, the opening was changed to Sunday, April 9."

Some online sources list a total of 14 Broadway previews, but with the two Sunday performances, the total seems to have been 15.

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Production Info

Previews: March 29, 1972 (15 prev.)
Opening April 9, 1972
Closing: June 23, 1973
Length of Run: 505 perf.
Run Type: Open-ended

Location Info

Market: Broadway
Location: New York, NY

Venues

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Tryout

Audio Recordings

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Commercial Recordings

Private Recordings

  • Original Cast (1972)
    Robert Morse , Tony Roberts (i) , Cyril Ritchard , Elaine Joyce , Sheila Smith

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