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The Apartment Back on Broadway

From Laurie Boeder, About.com Guide   October 27, 2009

Remakes from Hollywood, revivals on Broadway. I guess movies and plays are just so expensive that relying on old standbys is easier than trying something risky, bold and new.

This time it's Promises, Promises on Broadway, a revival of the old musical based on Billy Wilder's bittersweet classic movie, The Apartment. (It won Best Picture in 1960, the last of the old black-and-white movies to do it.)

The play is set for a March opening in New York. At least there will be a great cast - dimunitive diva Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked) and Sean Hayes of Will and Grace fame.

Chenoweth accepts her Emmy for 'Pushing Daisies,' by Kevin Winter/Getty Images

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