Prescott Center for the Arts will present PROMISES, PROMISES, featuring music by Burt Bacharach, lyrics by Hal David, book by Neil Simon, based on the screenplay The Apartment by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, and directed by Jon Meyer. The production runs September 26, 27, 28, October 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12, 2013 at 7:30, and September 29 & October 6, 2013 at 2:00. Tickets are $22.00 for evening and $18.00 for matinee.
Based on the Billy Wilder film, The Aparment, Promises, Promises takes place in New York City. An accountant, Chuck Baxter, a near invisible employee of the mega-corporation, Global Life, agrees to lend out his apartment to co-workers who need a convenient place to socialize, in order to climb the Corporate Ladder. Despite personal comedic misery and intrigue, real romance prevails for Chuck with one of the executive's mistresses, a young woman he fancies from afar.
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