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 artists; theatre orchestra.

The musical SUGAR is a musical adaptation of the film “Some Like It Hot.” Like the film, its plot is based on the play by B. Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, “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 criminal underworld in pre-war America, painted in retro hues.

The story shows how a gangland massacre took place in Chicago on St. Valentine’s Day in 1929. Two jazz musicians accidentally witness it. To hide from the mob hitmen pursuing them, the musicians disguise themselves as women and get jobs in an all-female 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 not usually 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 reflected in the “Sugar” productions that return to Broadway every few decades.