SUGAR. Some Like It Hot

SUGAR (Some Like It Hot) is 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, and 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: the theatre’s soloists, chorus and ballet artists; the theatre orchestra.

The musical SUGAR is a musical adaptation of the film *Some Like It Hot*. Like the film, its plot is based on Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s play *Some Like It Hot*. The music, rooted in the finest jazz traditions of the 1950s and 1960s, nostalgically transports the audience to an amusing satire of the criminal underworld in pre-war America, coloured by a retro aesthetic.

The story reveals how a gangster massacre took place in Chicago on Valentine’s Day in 1929. Two jazz musicians accidentally 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 not usually revealed to men. How long will they manage to keep hiding, with half-naked women 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. It ran for more than a year, with 505 performances. Its success is reflected in the versions of *Sugar* that return to Broadway every few decades.