May 03, 2010
By: Pia Haas
Category: News, Press, SUGAR
Come see "the girls" Daphne (Eric Santagata) & Josephine(Gary Lynch) as they sweet talk Sugar (Colleen Hawks, center)
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What’s the best way for two unemployed male musicians to escape the Chicago mob? Dress up in drag and join an all-female band on a train headed for Miami, of course!
The Hit Musical, SUGAR is based on Billy Wilder’s 1959 comic masterpiece; "Some Like It Hot," starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe. Two musicians in 1920s Chicago are unwilling witnesses to a showdown between rival bootleggers and need to get out of town fast. The only jobs to be had are in an all-girl band conveniently headed for sunny Miami. Their problems aren’t over by a longshot, though: both fall for the band’s lead singer, Sugar Kane; one of them becomes the object of affection for an elderly millionaire – and then the Chicago mobsters show up.