Chenoweth Extends in Promises, Promises!

The producers of the Tony Award-winning production of PROMISES, PROMISES are thrilled to announce that Tony and Emmy Award winner and 2010 Emmy nominee Kristin Chenoweth has extended her run in the smash hit musical comedy for three additional months. Kristin Chenoweth and her Tony-nominated and Emmy Award-winning co-star Sean Hayes will play their final performance together in PROMISES, PROMISES on Sunday, December 26, 2010.


This new production of PROMISES, PROMISES, directed and choreographed by Tony and Emmy Award winner Rob Ashford with Neil Simon’s funny and touching book and Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s hit-packed score, began previews at the Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway) Saturday, March 27, 2010, and opened on Sunday, April 25, 2010. PROMISES, PROMISES has been one of Broadway’s top 5 grossing shows every week since it opened.

Based on the 1960 Academy Award-winning Billy Wilder film The Apartment that starred Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, PROMISES, PROMISES tells the story of the Consolidated Life Insurance Company and Chuck Baxter, one of its charming young employees. In an effort to advance his career, Chuck lends executives his apartment for their extramarital romantic trysts. But things become slightly complicated when Chuck discovers Fran Kubelik, the object of his affection, is involved with one of the executives.

This fall Kristin Chenoweth will also be seen in Disney’s feature film You Again with Kristen Bell, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis and Betty White in theaters September 24, and Ms. Chenoweth will reprise her Emmy nominated role as April Rhodes in the second season of the hit TV series “Glee.”