PROMISES, PROMISES marquee being put up today

Just FYI.

They sure as hell didn't waste any time...

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Updated On: 1/5/10 at 03:16 PM

Will they have a lottery at the M&M store?

Well, they certainly didn't waste any time at all, did they?

I'm really hoping this is good.

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Is going to a smash something like going to a rave, Taz?

Let's hope it has nothing to do with two woefully miscast "cute" performers in two tricky, un-cute roles in a painfully dated show that will be sabotaging itself by not using the original orchestrations, possibly the only feature of the original production that was unparalleled in its innovation at the time.

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I give Kristin a lot more credit for being a good actress and I'm pretty sure she'll be fantastic in this.

I bet it'll be fun. I admit I have some trepidation about the casting...but I'm hoping to be proved wrong.

I'm all through with promises!

Pretty excited about this. I think Kristin and Sean are more than capable actors to carry this off! Sean has remarkable range from everything I've seen. I thought he was straight from all those Frito ads from way back.

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I equal the love for Tunick's orchestrations. They are marvels and were wildly innovative. But didn't Burt Bacharach invent the Burt Bacharach sound?

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Who's to say the rumored new orchestrations can't be just as wonderful or maybe even moreso? Yes, Tunick's orchestrations were phenomenal, but the revival's could be great as well. If they're even new at all. Let's not get ahead of something we know nothing about yet.

As for Kristin and Sean, I have a lot of confidence in them. They're both absolute riots. And what's better for a musical comedy than great comedic actors?

I will be spending the next few months atheistically praying that this show, which features two of the most winning actors around (one a Broadway goddess according to many) - each with a huge following of both Broadway babies and the great unwashed - will be a huge hit. If only so that I can rub one or two of the noses of the naysayers on this thread in the mud they have been spewing.

Wow, was that a little too harsh?

When is this site going to stop letting some of its inhabitants eat Broadway's young?

There is no solid notice that the orchestrations are being re-written. They are, after all, almost 40 years old. Maybe they're just updating them.

As for the leads, they are both a little long-on-the-tooth but there has been much more egregious casting (a 50-year-old Maria in "The Sound of Music"). Nobody would have had the stones to tell Mary Martin to her face that she was too old to play Maria, but some of you guys, hiding out in your parent's basement are making such sweeping generalizations about Sean and Kristin. Cheno was in her 30s during Vicked, wasn't she?

I long for shows that are Ben Brantley-proof as I do not feel that one man should have such power. Now I'm starting to form the opinion that Broadway also needs shows that are Broadwayworld.com proof.

We bemoan the perpetual death of the invalid while some of us intentionally and spitefully step on his oxygen hose.

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>There is no solid notice that the orchestrations are being re-written. They are, after all, almost 40 years old. Maybe they're just updating them.<

What I was hearing is new orchestrations by Doug Besterman. Now, he's very good, so if that's true, it will definitely sound like something. I wouldn't be the type to weep and wail and gnash my teeth over this anyway. But the sound doesn't really need "updating". If anything, it needs to be kept firmly in its '60s time frame so the show - with its horny businessmen and willing secretaries - comes off as distant enough from our own era to be palatable. The point, I think, is that the Tunick orchestrations do this already, which is why I wouldn't necessarily have touched them. When Tunick was at his best, as he is with Promises, he really cannot be improved upon.

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I agree with Smaxie 100%. Well said :)

I'm still crossing my fingers for Michael Bennett's original choreography.

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