Jeffrey Brian Adams, Monique Hafen & More to Star in San Francisco Playhouse's PROMISES, PROMISES
By: Tyler Peterson
San Francisco Playhouse have announced casting for their holiday show, a revival of the 1968 Broadway hit Promises, Promises to be directed by Bill English.
The cast will feature actors that are well known to Playhouse audiences, Jeffrey Brian Adams (Prince from Into the Woods), Monique Hafen* (Into the Woods, Camelot, My Fair Lady) and Johnny Moreno* (Camelot, My Fair Lady, Period of Adjustment) in the lead roles with Morgan Dayley, Joe Estlack, Rudy Guerrero*, Kathryn Fox Hart, Corinne Proctor*, Steven Shear and Leah Shesky. Nominated for four Tony Awards and based on the 1960 Oscar-winning Billy Wilder film The Apartment, this raucous comedy features a book by Broadway legend Neil Simon with songs by the powerhouse writing team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, including such hits as "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," "Knowing When to Leave," and the title song, "Promises, Promises." If you like Mad Men, you're in luck. Infused with the swinging energy of early 1960s Manhattan, Promises, Promises tells the story of a lovelorn young executive and a romantically troubled waitress, knotted in a twist of sexual affairs and corporate shenanigans. In this apartment, office romances collide with office politics as you've never seen them before. Chuck Baxter has what many of his colleagues want: a spacious, fashionable apartment ideal for mischief. With the promise of promotion dangling before him, Chuck lends some of his senior executives his place for their extramarital trysts. In exchange, Chuck gets the key to his aspirations-and a lowly rung up on the corporate ladder. For a while, life is bliss. That's before Chuck learns that the object of his own affection is the mistress of his boss, the man who holds the key to Chuck's two greatest properties: his flat and his future.
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