The run closed January 1, 1972
- Opened
- December 1, 1968
- Closed
- January 1, 1972
- Performances
- 1,281
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Shubert Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 12th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Promises, Promises 2 more that season
| 1969 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2010 | Broadway Theatre Revival · Rob Ashford | 289 perf. |
Who was in it81 named
Barbara Alston
Rod Barry
Carole Bishop
Kelly Britt
Gene Cooper
Bob Fitch
Margot Hanson
Betsy Haug
Neil Jones
Debra Lyman
Bettye Mccormick
Vince O Brien
Rita O Connor
Gerry O Hara
Dick O Neill
Kay Oslin
Scott Pearson
Paul Reed
Michael Shawn
Ilona Simon
Millie Slavin
Julane Stites
Don Stomsvik
Melissa Stoneburn
Lorna Luft
Jenny O Hara
Oscar Antony
Pamela Barlow
Andy Bew
Karen Burke
Eileen Casey
Marilyn Child
James Congdon
Lada Edmund
Don Fellows
Miranda Fellows
Ronn Forella
Jacki Garland
Bill Gerber
Rei Golenor
Rodney Griffin
Carol Hanzel
Peggy Haug
Spence Henderson
Carolyn Kirsch
Dick Korthaze
John Medeiros
Todd Miller
Barbara Monte Britton
Joe Nelson
Frank Newell
Diane Phillips
Frank Pietri
Anthony Roberts
Rita Rudner
Gene Rupert
Dick Sabol
Marylou Sirinek
Eileen Taylor
Lynne Taylor
Sandra Thornton
Terry Violino
Sandra West
Pam Zarit
17 of these 81 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 64 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters13 roles recorded
Jerry Orbach Chuck Baxter
Melissa Hart Fran Kubelik
Bob Holiday J.D. Sheldrake
Alan North Dr. Dreyfuss
Kay Oslin Marge MacDougall
David Sabin Mr. Dobitch
Larry Douglas Mr. Kirkeby
Tom Batten Mr. Eichelberger
Barney Martin Jesse Vanderhof
Baayork Lee Miss Vivien Della Hoya
Joyce Driscoll Miss Polansky
Gayle Crofoot (as Miss Blackwell) Miss Ginger Wong
Diane Findlay Peggy Olsen
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Robert Moore
- Choreographer
- Michael Bennett
- Producer
- David Merrick
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- The first revival of this adaptation of the 1960 movie The Apartment was also one of the first so-called jukebox musicals, consisting solely of material written by a popular songwriting team, the hugely popular Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The production earned four Tony nominations, but came away empty. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 361
- Bennett, Michael Chorus Line, A Company Dreamgirls Follies My One and Only Promises, Promises Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 387
- So particular and predictable were his tastes that advertising agencies referred to a certain color, used over and over again on his posters, as “David Merrick red.” His most notorious publicity stunt was for the 1961 flop Subways Are for Sleeping: he found seven New Yorkers with the identical names of the major critic… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 89
- His hit musicals included Sweet Charity; Promises, Promises; and They're Playing Our Song. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 317
- Prior to Follies, Simon had written the books for Little Me (1962), Sweet Charity (1966), and Promises, Promises (1968) (the latter choreographed by Bennett). After Follies, Simon would contribute uncredited one-liners in Bennett’s Seesaw (1973) and A Chorus Line Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 706
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Promises, Promises at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.