Sean Hayes Pimps Crib, Woos Chenoweth in ‘Promises’: John Simon
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“Promises, Promises,” the Burt Bacharach-Hal David-Neil Simon musical, wallowed in a 1960s sensibility, largely inherited from its source, the Billy Wilder movie, “The Apartment.”
The new Broadway revival, starring Sean Hayes (“Will & Grace”) and Kristin Chenoweth, demonstrates that while some shows are destined to become tantalizing time capsules, others will merely seem dated in retrospect.