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Promises, Promises - Broadway revival

I was late getting around to this, but happily the first cast is still together.  Neil Simon's play is dated, Burt Bacharach's score doesn't really catch fire, in my opinion, until the second act, but ultimately this turns out to be quite amusing and - perhaps unintentionally? - a sarcastic comment on the sexism of the American office culture of the 1960s.  In any event, I thought Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth were absolutely fantastic in the leads, and Tony Goldwyn, Katie Finneran, and Dick Latessa totally sensational in their major supporting roles.  Glad I finally caught up with this show, which opened in April.  My theater-going friend insisted, after stumbling across the controversy last month stirred by the Newsweek commentary about the credibility problem of Mr. Hayes, now out of the closet, playing a straight lead.  What credibility problem, ask I?  None that I could see or hear.

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