SUGAR: Only Girls in Jazz

SUGAR (Only Girls in Jazz), a musical in two acts

Play by Peter Stone
Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Bob Merrill

Based on the screenplay for the film “Some Like It Hot,” written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, based on a work by Robert Thoeren.

The libretto was translated into Lithuanian by Andrius Žiurauskas.

The musical SUGAR is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd., represented by Tams-Witmark LLC. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

Premiere: October 4, 2024

Featuring:
Theatre soloists, chorus and ballet dancers
Theatre orchestra

The musical SUGAR is a musical adaptation of the film “Some Like It Hot.” Like the film, its plot is based on B. Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s play “Some Like It Hot.” Its music, rooted in the finest jazz traditions of the 1950s and 1960s, nostalgically transports audiences to a lively satire of the pre-war American underworld, tinged with retro color.

The story reveals how, on Valentine’s Day in 1929, a massacre of gangsters took place in Chicago. Two jazz musicians happened to witness it. To hide from the Mafia hitmen pursuing them, the musicians disguise themselves as women and get jobs in an all-women jazz orchestra. There they meet the charming singer Sugar Kane, who dreams of marrying a millionaire. The men are swept into the whirl of women’s lives and encounter things that are usually not revealed to men. How long will they manage to keep hiding when scantily clad girls are constantly around them, sharing their most intimate secrets? Events begin to unfold in a way neither musician had planned.

The musical “Sugar” premiered on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre on April 9, 1972, starring Robert Morse, Tony Roberts and Elaine Joyce. A total of 505 performances were given over more than a year. The success of the musical is evidenced by “Sugar” productions returning to Broadway every few decades.