Has Kristin Chenoweth Made a Promise to Star in Promises, Promises?
Is recent Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth ready to fall in love again on Broadway? The New York Post is reporting that the Wicked star will play Fran Kubelik in the spring revival of Promises, Promises opposite Sean Hayes (Will & Grace), singing great Burt Bacharach-Hal David songs like "I'll Never Fall In Love Again," "Whoever You Are" and "Knowing When To Leave."
Chenoweth would star as lovelorn Fran, a waitress working in the restaurant of major company Consolidated Life Insurance. During her time as a meal-slinger, Fran meets and begins a flirtation with company man Chuck (Hayes), an ambitious go-getter with his eye set on the girl serving him lunch. The predictable musical mayhem starts when Chuck's boss, J.D. Sheldrake, asks his employee to borrow his apartment for an affair—with Fran. Let the games begin.
Chenoweth won her first Emmy Award last month for the cancelled TV series Pushing Daisies. She won a Tony Award in 1999 for You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and was also nominated for Wicked in 2004. Other Broadway credits include Steel Pier, Epic Proportions and The Apple Tree. On TV, she's been seen on her short-lived sitcom Kristin, The West Wing, Glee and the TV-movie versions of Annie and The Music Man. She will next be seen as a guest judge on American Idol. Big screen credits include RV, Stranger than Fiction, Running with Scissors, Deck the Halls and Four Christmases.
With a book by Neil Simon and music and lyrics by Bacharach and David, Promises, Promises debuted on Broadway in December 1968, starring a Tony Award-winning Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara. The show's combination of catchy tunes combined with choreography by Michael Bennett and a cast full of Tony-nominated supporting players, kept the show running at the Shubert Theatre for nearly 1,300 performances before its close on January 1, 1972. The musical was adapted from the 1960 film The Apartment.
Rob Ashford is set to direct and choreograph the revival of Promises, Promises.
