Promises, Promises

The San Francisco Playhouse
450 Post Street San Francisco

It's like Mad Men for the stage, with office romances colliding hilariously with office politics. Based on the 1960 Academy Award-winning Billy Wilder film The Apartment, Promises, Promises tells the story of the executives of the Consolidated Life Insurance Company and junior employee Chuck Baxter. In an effort to advance up through the ranks, Chuck lends his superiors the keys to his apartment for their extramarital trysts. But things become slightly complicated when the object of Chuck's affection becomes involved with one of his superiors. With Neil Simon's funny and touching book and Burt Bacharach and Hal David's hit-packed score, this gem is infused with the swinging energy of 1968 Manhattan.