Theater

July, 1972

Nobody's perfect, except perhaps Robert Morse in drag, but there was reason to hope that David Merrick's musical Sugar would capture the frenetic flavor of Some Like It Hot. That movie had a sparkling Billy Wilder--I. A. L. Diamond sheen to it, most of which has been lost in Peter Stone's imitation script. The comic basics are still there--the all-girl band featuring the supremely all-girl Sugar (Marilyn Monroe in the movie) and murderous gangsters chasing two eyewitnesses to a massacre. In the...