Based on the film The Apartment by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond
Promises, Promises is a musical based on the 1960 film The Apartment. The music is by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, and book by Neil Simon. Musical numbers for the original Broadway production were choreographed by Michael Bennett.
Harlem Stage, the legendary uptown venue that for over 30 years has promoted the creative legacy of Harlem and artists of color from around the corner and across the globe, is proud to present its Spring 2018 season of performances. The season is curated by Monique Martin, newly appointed Director of Programming for Harlem Stage and features artists who #Disrupt, and take creative risk. They reflect the times via a range of artistic genres, offering audiences the chance to experience legendary performers and rising stars.
The Olivier Awards have shared the first details of the 2018 ceremony. The Awards, which are the UK's most prestigious stage honours, will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 8 April 2018.
The Whyte & Mackay Glasgow International Comedy Festival (GICF) reveals its full programme, as this hugely popular event in the comedy calendar returns for its 16th year from Thursday 8 Sunday 25 March 2018.
Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met begins with a new production of Bellini's masterpiece about a woman scorned, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. Norma stars Sondra Radvanovsky as the titular druid high priestess, opposite Joyce DiDonato as Norma's new rival and Joseph Calleja as her unfaithful lover a casting dream for bel canto fans.
Go Comedy is excited to host the 11th annual Snow Day improv marathon. Snow Day brings together improvisors from across the area to raise money for Gilda's Club of Metro Detroit, The Tim Hayden Scholarship Fund and The Diana George Jacokes Endowment Fund. The 26 hour event will feature performances by nearly 50 improv groups including a special 2-hour family friendly block from Noon-2pm on Sunday, January 14. Performances will kick off at 8:00pm on Saturday, January 13 and continue through 10:00pm Sunday, January 14. Tickets range from $10 to $20 for several performance blocks with a full 26 hour performance pass available for $100. Tickets are on sale now online at www.gocomedy.net or in person at the Go Comedy! box office. A complete performance schedule follows this release.
American Lyric Theater presents ALT Alumni: Composers and Librettists in Concert on January 14, 2018 at 8pm at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center, 129 W. 67th Street, NYC. Tickets are $25 and are available by phone at 212-501-3330 or online at www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/alt-alumni-composers-and-librettists-in-concert.
Faust Theatre is wrapping up the 2016 -17 season that began with The Drowsy Chaperone by Bob Martin and Lisa Lambert, directed by Lily Nicholas, followed by a one-night only performance of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rachel Sheinkin and Willian Finn, and finished the year with the summer smash-hit of Heathers the Musical by Laurence O'Keefe, both directed by Zach Faust, the latter joined by Frederick Rivera.
The Capstone announces the launch of its spring 2018 season, which runs from late January to May 2018, and promises an eclectic range of artistic delights with a particular focus on contemporary music, jazz, world music and contemporary dance.
The imminent start of a new year means it is time for South African funnyman Alan Committie to bring audiences in the City of Gold another hilarious look at the world around us. In PLANET MIRTH, Committie presents a docu-comedy in the highest definition and promises all the infectious energy, physical hi-jinks, witty wordplay and hysterical observations audiences have come to love about his brand of comic madness.
BroadwayWorld has learned that Beth Leavel will lead The Muny's production of GYPSY as Mama Rose! The production will feature direction by Rob Ruggiero, choreography by Ralph Perkins, and music direction by James Moore.
Fresh from making his first feature film d but in the South African comedy drama, Finders Keepers, earlier in August this year, 2018 sees comedian Stuart Taylor returning to the Cape Town stage with his hilarious new offering, Funny You Should Say That.
On Monday, December 18 the Theater People podcast welcomes Olivier Award winner Leslie Margherita (MATILDA THE MUSICAL, DAMES AT SEA, ZORRO THE MUSICAL). On what will be the final Theater People episode of 2018, Margherita discusses WHO'S HOLIDAY, The one woman show in which she is currently starring as a grown up Cindy Lou Hoo--the character from the beloved Dr. Seuss Christmas classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
After three sell-out seasons, the creators of La Soir e return to Perth with a brand new show. Loose, glorious and irresistibly fun, Club Swizzle is a night of sassy entertainment where the mayhem gets kicked up a notch. The cheekiest souls in showbiz gather on, in and around the bar where legends are made and good times abound. It's a melee of outrageous cabaret, air-defying acrobatics and infectious musical revelry, backed by a band with a repertoire as big as its bar tab. With no stage, no rules and no regrets, there's no place like it. Leave your coat and your hang-ups at the door and book now to join the Club! Tonight, like every night, will be unlike any other.
In 2018, Uptown Underground salutes the shadows, pays homage to the hush-hush and uncovers what Chicago has had under wraps Join us as we move burlesque from late-night to prime-time, take drag from lip-synched to live, and shine a spotlight on the beautiful rebels of the Chicago entertainment scene. Uptown Underground is transforming from Top Shelf Retrotainment to Subculture Redefined!
The Smith Center For The Performing Arts has announced events February - March 2018. See the full lineup below!
The New Group has announced today that Terrence Mann and Will Swenson will star in the company's Off-Broadway premiere of Jerry Springer - The Opera, as 'Jerry Springer' and 'Warm-Up / Satan,' respectively.
The Muny announced today the directors, choreographers and music directors for The Muny's 2018 centennial season, which opens on June 11 with the first production in the world of Jerome Robbins' Broadway since it's Tony - award winning Broadway and national tour productions.
he award winning Psycho Las Vegas has announced its return today exclusively via Revolver, along with its first round of bands it plans to host next August 17-19 at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Expectations are high for the fest after last year's massive, expertly curated selection of artists from around the globe, and if this first taste of THE LINEUP is any indication, 2018 promises to go above and beyond, setting the desert on fire.
American Lyric Theater presents ALT Alumni: Composers and Librettists in Concert on January 14, 2018 at 8pm at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center, 129 W. 67th Street, NYC.
The cast and creative team has been announced for the World Premiere of The ToyBoy Diaries, the new British musical that is to be the first production staged in 2018 at the critically-acclaimed Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester.
Capezio celebrates 130 years of excellence with this one-night only special Awards and show on Monday, May 14, 2018 at 7:30 pm at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts, 361 Symphony Park Avenue, Las Vegas NV 89106.
So Frenchy So Chic 2018 French Moments With Fine Friends Indulge In French Cuisine, Beauty Make Over And The Best Of French Music
Scottish Dance Theatre will debut their new work RITUALIA at Dundee Rep on Friday 9th February. Created by Berlin based Scottish choreographer Colette Sadler, RITUALIA takes Bronislava Nijinska's feminist cultural landmark that is Les Noces and transforms it by creating a fictional post-gender future. Evoking and celebrating the notion of hybridity, exploring iconic artificiality, presentation and fashion, RITUALIA is set to be a thought-provoking visual feast.
Back by popular demand and after sold out performances at The Eventim Apollo in 2017, Jamie Wilson, Entertainment One (eOne), Ramin Sabi and Belgrade Theatre Coventry are delighted to announce the return of Birmingham Repertory's production of NATIVITY! THE MUSICAL at The Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith, London for an extended Christmas run in 2018.
Storyhouse Chester has revealed the final programme for its very first Spring Season with a line-up packed with showstopping entertainment promising audiences a fantastic start to 2018.
1968 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
1969 | West End |
London Production West End |
1970 | US Tour |
National Tour US Tour |
1997 | Off-Broadway |
Encores! Concert Off-Broadway |
2010 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
2017 | West End |
Off-West End Revival West End |
2018 | Off-Broadway |
Transport Group Concert Production Off-Broadway |
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