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)
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Free Music Review: COMPLETELY WON OVER......BUT......
Hit: 5 Stars
I have always been a big fan of the 1968 musical "Promises, Promises" with its "different", for Broadway, Burt Bacharach/Hal David score. I was a bit wary that they would tinker with the original orchestrations for this revival but I was pleasantly surprised they haven't. Sure they have somewhat softened the brass and added voices to the unseen, scat-singing chorus but the results work just fine. "Promises, Promises" is one of those rare shows where dialogue, jokes and musical numbers hum along in perfect synch, like a finely tuned car, but this production has thrown a few curves in the road.
The female lead, Fran Kubelik, played by Kristen Chenoweth is short-changed in musical numbers so this revival has added a couple of Bacharach/David numbers, "I Say A Little Prayer" and "A House Is Not A Home" for her to sing and how, why or where they fit into this finely tuned show I can't figure out but they adjust to the curves well but adds a little excess baggage to the trunk of the finely tuned car.
Sean Hayes as Chuck Baxter has a very unusual, to say the least singing voice. Although he sounds like an elf with blocked nasal passages and a pronounced vibrato, strangely enough it fits with the vulnerability of his character. And his duet with Miss Chenoweth on "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" is charming.
The musical numbers featuring "Knowing When To Leave" which is a tricky song to sing, "Where Can You Take A Girl" "She Likes Basketball' "Whoever You Are" the title song, "Half As Big As Life" "Our Little Secret" and even the silly "Turkey Lurkey Time" in fact the entire score is just fine and a lot of fun.
And for a change a revival that for the most part doesn't monkey around with the original but I still wonder how "I Say A Little Prayer" and "A House is Not A Home" fits the show.
P.S. Just for the record, "A House Is Not A Home" was the title song for a movie about a whorehouse. The lyrics are pretty generic but knowing and having seen the original movie, when Kristen Chenoweth sings about the "house" I think back to a movie where scantily clad babes are lounging around the "house."
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