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
Productions3 on Broadway
| 1968 | Shubert Theatre Original. December 1, 1968 · Robert Moore | 1,281 performances |
| 1969 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 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.
Recordings 6 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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49 passages naming Promises, Promises, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
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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