Promises, Promises
Opening Night: April 25, 2010
Closing: January 2, 2011
Theater: Broadway Theatre
Promises, Promises tells the story of Chuck Baxter, a charming young employee at the Consolidated Life Insurance Company. In an effort to advance at the company, Chuck lends executives his apartment for their extramarital romantic trysts. But things become slightly complicated when Fran Kubelik, the object of Chuck’s affection, becomes the mistress of one of his executives.
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April 25, 2010
The hypnotic Burt Bacharach beat remains undiminished some four decades after it was unleashed in ”Promises, Promises,” the 1968 musical now getting an agreeable if not altogether transporting revival on Broadway.
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April 25, 2010
It seems we have "Mad Men" to thank for the buoyant new production of "Promises, Promises," receiving its first Broadway revival since its premiere more than 40 years ago. This musical adaptation of Billy Wilder’s classic film "The Apartment" has clearly tapped into the ’60s era nostalgia so vividly rendered by the AMC television series.
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April 25, 2010
For anyone who thought turning popular movies into dopey musicals was strictly a 21st-century phenomenon, a little history lesson has begun.
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While “Promises, Promises” may have been a perfectly timed commercial confection for 1968, it’s never been an A-list musical. Neil Simon’s anything-for-a-laugh book coarsens its basis, Billy Wilder’s classic 1960 film “The Apartment,” while Hal David’s trite pop lyrics strain mightily when asked to convey character or advance plot. Only Burt Bacharach’s fizzy score is the real deal, with its original and period-defining sound.
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April 25, 2010
For a bunch of desk jockeys, the boys from Consolidated Life are surprisingly athletic. In Rob Ashford’s revival of the 1968 musical “Promises, Promises,” which opened on Sunday night at the Broadway Theater, the male members of the chorus demonstrate that wearing skinny suits needn’t keep corporate executives from playing leap frog, turning cart wheels, bouncing off desks or frugging like, well, mad men.
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April 26, 2010
Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s 1968 hit "Promises, Promises" has been called too silly to bring back. But the revival that opened on Broadway last night embraces this very ’60s brand of fluff with contagious gusto.
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