Promises, Promises
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Performer: Sean HayesPerformer: Kristin Chenoweth
Performer: Tony Goldwyn
Performer: Katie Finneran
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2010-06-21
Music Label: SONY MASTERWORKS
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Half As Big As Life
- Grapes of Roth
- Upstairs
- You'll Think of Someone
- It's Our Little Secret
- I Say a Little Prayer
- She Likes Basketball
- Knowing When to Leave
- Where Can You Take a Girl?
- Wanting Things
- Turkey Lurkey Time
- A House Is Not a Home
- A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing
- Whoever You Are, I Love You
- Christmas Day
- A House Is Not a Home (Reprise)
- A Young Pretty Girl Like You
- I'll Never Fall In Love Again
- Promises, Promises
- I'll Never Fall In Love Again (Reprise)
Music reviews of Promises, Promises
Music Review: Unmistakable Bacharach-David Tunes Remain the Hallmark of This Musical Pastiche
Rating: 4 Stars
Last April, I took in the new candy-coated revival of "Promises, Promises" which turned out to be great fun since the producers decided to set back the clock a few years to the early 1960s Mad Men era, probably to cash in on the current popularity of the AMC series. Thanks to Rob Ashford's breezy direction and athletic choreography ("It's Turkey Lurkey Time" is still a hoot), Scott Pask's heavily stylized sets, and Bruce Pask's bright costumes, the production felt like a day-glo retro-fantasy. The show has quite a pedigree - book by Neil Simon and the unmistakable music and lyrics of Burt Bacharach and Hal David at their hit-making prime. The 2010 Broadway cast recording captures much of the onstage fun, although it also points out how many of my memories of the new production are visual more than aural.
It was initially a head-scratcher as to see Sean Hayes cast in the lead role, the hopelessly romantic Chuck Baxter who uses his convenient apartment as the means to move up the company ladder, since his eight-season run as the flamboyantly gay Jack McFarland on Will & Grace was such an indelible comic turn. Against the odds, he gave a fine performance onstage, and on record, he's a more than competent singer who is convincing in conveying his ambitious character's puppyish love for Fran Kubelik, the beleaguered employee cafeteria worker who is sleeping with J.D. Sheldrake, the head of HR. He excels on his first solo, "Upstairs" with the Orchestra Voices, although I still think his version of the familiar title tune comes off flat since it relies on a level of emotional bombast that doesn't appear to be his strong suit.
The usually bouncy and self-assured Kristen Chenoweth would seem like a strange choice to play a victimized girl like Fran, but she manages to be winning through her spectacular interpretations of several classics - "I Say a Little Prayer", "Knowing When to Leave", "A House Is Not a Home", and in a touching, guitar-strumming duet with Hayes, "I'll Never Fall in Love Again". Tony Goldwyn brings the right level of smarm to Sheldrake and has a fine solo in "Wanting Things", as well as an amusing duet with Hayes on "Our Little Secret". Dick Latessa of the equally retro-fun Hairspray plays Chuck's neighbor, the kindly but sardonic doctor who saves Fran from her fate, and has his moment in the sun with "A Young Pretty Girl Like You". Katie Finneran stole the show based on a 12-minute appearance at the beginning of Act II, and here she comically duets with Hayes on "A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing". All in all, it's an energetic musical pastiche well executed.
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