Sugar Daddy is probably the best time you could have with someone else’s grief—in fact, the comedian invites you to laugh along with him!As the story goes, a few years back, the LA-based writer and performer packed his bags for Provincetown, planning on a summer vacation to soak up the sun… and the older men. But when he got there and met the “sexy silver zaddy of his dreams,” his whole life was about to change in ways he never expected.The two fell in love, a true “romance for the ages” that extended far beyond P-town.
But, within the first year of the pandemic, Morrison’s partner sadly passed from COVID.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Though incredibly tragic, Morrison realized that, in order to process his grief and pay proper tribute to the beautiful life and legacy of his late boyfriend, he’d have to turn to the one thing he knew best: comedy.And thus, Sugar Daddy was born. The hilarious and heart-warming one-man show first made waves at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022, before an acclaimed and triple-extended Off-Broadway run at NYC’s Soho Playhouse.
Now, it’s set to have its West Coast debut in LA at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts from September 20 – October 13, before making a highly anticipated Broadway debut in 2025. Recently, icons Alan Cumming and Billy Porter both came on board as producers of the show, only upping its daddy bonafides.As Morrison (who’s comedy’s been featured everywhere from Late Night With Seth Meyers to The Drew Barrymore Show) gets ready to raise the curtain on Sugar Daddy in LA, we were lucky enough to snag a few minute of his time and put him in the hot seat for our rapid-fire Q&A series, Dishin’ It.
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