Promises, Promises review " Bacharach's musical makeover of Wilder's Apartment
Southwark Playhouse, London A revival of Neil Simon's adaptation of the Billy Wilder classic, with songs by Bacharach and Hal David, is well performed but gratingly anachronisticThis musical boasts an impeccable pedigree. It is based on the 1960 Billy Wilder film The Apartment. It has a book by Neil Simon, marks the only excursion of composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David on to Broadway, and had a long New Yo…