ANOTHER 60S FLASHBACK: PROMISES, PROMISES ON BROADWAY
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Forget MAD MEN.
The 60s will live again on Broadway next spring in a revival of PROMISES, PROMISES, the musical based on the ACADEMY AWARD winning movie THE APARTMENT.
The musical will star SEAN HAYES as an ambitious insurance company employee who lends his apartment to company executives for romantic flings and KRISTIN CHENOWETH as his love interest.
Producer John Gore said the production will open APRIL 25, 2010, at the BROADWAY THEATRE. Preview performances begin MARCH 28.
PROMISES, PROMISES features a book by NEIL SIMON and a score by BURT BACHARACH and HAL DAVID.
SEAN HAYES, who will be making his Broadway debut, is best known for playing JACK on the television series WILL & GRACE.
KRISTIN CHENOWETH last appeared on Broadway in the 2006 revival of THE APPLE TREE and was GLINDA in the original cast of WICKED.
The original PROMISES, PROMISES, which starred JERRY ORBACH and JILL O’HARA, opened on Broadway in 1968 and ran for more than 1,200 performances.
THE APARTMENT, which won the BEST PICTURE OSCAR in 1960, starred JACK LEMMON and SHIRLEY MacLAINE.
