Also credited on2 works
Promises, Promises
The Look of Love
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- Most composers have little sympathy for a critic’s plight, but Stephen Sondheim and composer Burt Bacharach allow that they are aware of the difficulties of the profession. The former contends, ‘I consider that I have a very sophisticated ear, but I wouldn’t want to write a review of a musical on one sitting.’ And the latter goes on to ad…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Ms Sager’s husband, Burt Bacharach, also believes the theatre should be innovative.ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- 217 Called a necessary evil by some, hailed by others as a blessing to both performers and audiences, Burt Bacharach says the sound man performs one of the most important functions of theatre. ‘He must be delicate,’ he adds, ‘and very careful of the audio level, too. You have older people who go, and you can’t beat them and assault their…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- In 1967 the producer David Merrick, who was certainly aware of trends and the way to capitalize on them, engaged Hal David and Burt Bacharach, the last exemplars of non-rock-oriented pop music, to write a Broadway score, Promises, Promises, based on Billy Wilder's 1960 Oscar-winning film The Apartment. His instincts were correct. The show…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- In a similar vein, I saw Promises, Promises, the Burt Bacharach musical based on Billy Wilder's The Apartment in 1969, and hated it as much as I did Hair two years later. But in 1997, when City Center Encores! presented a concert version of Promises, Promises I found myself choking back tears on the way out. I had even less rapport with t…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Since Marty Robbins had reached number fifteen on the charts with Burt Bacharach’s “The Story of My Life” on November 11, 1957, the composer had seen thirty-eight of his songs make the Top 40. Two even made the list by virtue of two different recordings—“Alfie” by Cher and Dionne Warwick, and “I Say a Little Prayer” by Dionne Warwick and…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
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- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
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