Sam Morrison reveals how the funny, moving “Sugar Daddy” emerged from the death of his boyfriend, and lust for older, bigger men—and his hopes to take the show to TV and Broadway.
“People have had such different reactions to this show,” Morrison told The Daily Beast in a recent Zoom call from a hotel room in, dressed in a lovely colorful sweater. “I have learned to let it be whatever people’s experience of it is. It’s such a personal story, whatever people take away from it, I’m thrilled with.”
The first jokes Morrison wrote were ones where he made fun of the condolences people gave. “That might seem angsty and defensive, but I really hated talking to people about grieving. It felt very isolating and it felt like people really didn’t know what I was going through.” Attending the “grief group” he goes to supplied a supportive group of listeners.
The show is both hilarious and joltingly moving. Morrison recalls one day crying hard on a beach, and with low blood sugar a risk eats some “gay little raisins.” This leads to a full-on confrontation with a pilfering seagull. Speaking of animals, Sam and Jonathan shared an animal language during quarantine. The problem, later discovered, was that Sam was cawing “I love you,” while Jonathan was calling back “No.
“My humor is raunchy, it pushes the envelope. He would push back on some jokes about me being into older guys. Sometimes he’d be like, ‘That one’s not funny Sam,’ and sometimes I’d take it out. I do think about that a lot. Would Jonathan want this joke in the show?’ And I’ve cut out a lot of jokes because I don’t think he’d want that.
Whenever someone knows Jonathan, Morrison is always careful to tell them what the show is, so they are not shocked or upset. “As much as is helpful for me to perform I don’t want it to trigger anyone in a way they are not ready for.” It’s also “special” for Morrison to have people who are closest to him see the show, who knows him offstage “and then see this thing that you’ve precisely crafted to tell a narrative and to see that and see you as authentic and be proud of you for being who you are.
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