Staging and choreography was by Ernest Flatt, with sketches directed by Rudy Tronto, musical direction by Glen Roven, scenic and costume design by Raoul Pene Du Bois, lighting design by Gilbert Vaughn Hemsley Jr., vocal arrangements and lyrics by Arthur Malvin, additional vocal arrangements by Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane, and orchestrations by Dick Hyman.
After the original stars left, successors included Juliet Prowse, Anita Morris, Joey Bishop, Eddie Bracken, Jeff Dunham and Rip Taylor.Maxie Furman The revue subsequently had a short-lived National tour which starred Carol Channing and Robert Morse, from August through November 1980.
[4][5] A revival of the show, "Sugar Babies 2", which would have starred Jerry Lewis, Chita Rivera and Rip Taylor, was planned for the fall of 1991, but ultimately did not happen.
Abbott was fired as director, and although he didn't have a contract, he sued producer Harry Rigby and received a six-figure settlement.
[8]In 1977, at a "scholarly four‐day conference[9][10][11][12] to study the History of American Popular Entertainment" at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Ralph G. Allen, a theater professor and historian fascinated with burlesque, presented a lecture, from a prior College of Fellows of the American Theatre[13] Address, with pieces of a revue he wrote, that borrowed material from long-forgotten burlesque routines, "At My Mother's Knee (and Other Low Joints)".
The show consists of old burlesque blackout gags and sketches, interspersed with song and dance numbers, and vaudeville specialty acts.
"It was all fast and funny and it ended with a patriotic number...with the entire company in red, white, and blue with a flag background and Miller as the Statue of Liberty.