Promises, Promises

• Original Broadway Production (1968)
  New York, NY
• London Production (1969)
  London, England
• First National Tour (1970)
   
• Bus and Truck Tour (1971)
   
• Second National Tour (1971)
   
• Equity Library Theatre Revival (1983)
  New York, NY
• Encores! Concert (1997)
  New York, NY
• Mini Tour (2001)
   
• Broadway Revival (2010)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Half As Big As Life
• Grapes of Roth
• Upstairs
• You'll Think of Someone
• Our Little Secret
• She Likes Basketball
• Knowing When to Leave
• Where Can You Take a Girl?
  • aka Where Can You Take a Girl [no note]
• Wanting Things
• Turkey Lurkey Time
• A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing
• Whoever You Are
• Christmas Day
• A Young Pretty Girl Like You
• I'll Never Fall in Love Again
• Promises, Promises

Cut prior to opening

• What Am I Doing Here?
• Let's Pretend We're Grown Up
• Tick Tock Goes the Clock
• Loyal Resourceful
• A Stroke of Luck
• Hot Food

Added to the 1997 Encores! Concert

• You've Got It All Wrong

Added to the 2010 Broadway Revival

• I Say a Little Prayer
• A House is Not a Home

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (1969)
  Burt Bacharach Singers
• Studio Cast (1970)
  Aimi MacDonald , Ronnie Carroll , Daphne Bonnet , Lissa Gray , Christine Parker

• Demo Recording [audio]
• Composer Demo [audio]

Based on the film The Apartment by Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond

On May 31, 1967, the theatre column in the New York Times announced that David Merrick would be producing two new musicals. One of them was to be a musical version of The Apartment. The article said that Neil Simon would write the book, Burt Bacharach would write the music, Hal David would write the lyrics, and Bob Fosse would direct and choreograph. The article mentioned that the rights to adapt the film as a musical had previously been held by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Jule Styne.

The other musical that the Times mentioned was a show called The Girls Upstairs, a collaboration between James Goldman (book) and Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics). Merrick was to co-produce the show with Leland Hayward. That show would later be retitled Follies. Under that title, it was produced and co-directed by Harold Prince.

• The Apartment (source material)