| re: And then there was SUGAR ... | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 07:47 am EST 12/28/22 | |
| In reply to: Some like it hot took a nose dive and ain’t no mo is soaring. - dramedy 09:51 pm EST 12/27/22 | |
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| ... lets give a thought to a middling musical created by some of Broadway's leading lights: SUGAR based of course on the same film, SOME LIKE IT HOT, opened on April 1972, and ran 505 performances. It had a Jule Styne/Bob Merrill score, and a book by Peter Stone, and direction & choreography by Gower Champion. Sets by Robert Wagner, orchestrations by Philip J Lang. And stars. Robert Morse and Tony Roberts. And Cyril Ritchard. And a world class producer. Unlike SOME LIKE IT HOT, which got mostly very positive reviews, including the TIMES, SUGAR was lambasted by Clive Barnes. "If you go expecting the worst you certainly won't be disappointed." But star power, and Morse and Roberst and Ritchards fabulous performances kept the show open well over a year. Then it toured. SOME LIKE IT HOT has none of the elements that SUGAR had, although it may be a better show (I'm seeing it in a couple of weeks). But it looks doubtful that it will eke out a run anywhere as long as that of SUGAR. I would imagine the producers will try to keep it open until at least Tony nominations time ... but at the moment I dont think many Tonys are in this show's future. |
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