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Promises, Promises

Promises, Promises

Shows · Promises, Promises

Two of the most successful pop song writers of the mid-Sixties, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, made a worthy — and so far only — contribution to the Broadway theatre with their score for Promises, Promises. Adapted from the 1960 movie, The Apartment, the musical followed such other recent offerings as How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, and What Makes Sammy Run? by reveali…

Opened
1968
Performances
1,281
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Burt BacharachLyrics: Hal DavidBook: Neil Simon

Productions3 on Broadway

1968 Shubert Theatre Original. December 1, 1968 · Robert Moore 1,281 performances
1969 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
2010 Broadway Theatre Revival. April 25, 2010 · Rob Ashford 289 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available
UK Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark available

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In the literature49 passages

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. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p361

Bennett, Michael Chorus Line, A Company Dreamgirls Follies My One and Only Promises, Promises book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p387

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… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p89

His hit musicals included Sweet Charity; Promises, Promises; and They're Playing Our Song. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p317

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 book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p706

Promises, Promises was a show that Michael Bennett envisioned the lively dances and continuous stage movement for. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p65

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