Posts Tagged ‘Hal David’
PROMISES, PROMISES
Monday, December 26th, 2022A pair of thoroughly winning romantic leads brighten The Group Rep’s 99-seat revival of the 1968 Neil Simon-Burt Bacharach-Hal David Broadway hit musical Promises, Promises, though an instance of historically incompatible gender reassignment does the production no favors.
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PROMISES, PROMISES
Monday, September 26th, 2016
With songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, book by Neil Simon (based on a Billy Wilder cinematic classic), a 1281-performance Broadway run, and a recent B-way revival, you’d think 1968’s Promises, Promises would have merited at least one major L.A. staging in the last fifteen years. Grievously, it hasn’t, which is one big reason audiences were in for a treat at Musical Theatre Guild’s altogether groovy one-night-only concert staged reading .
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