Rob Morrison's next Musical Theatre Melodies broadcast on Tuesday, 4th December at 9 p.m. EDT will feature a 50th Anniversary tribute to Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s Promises, Promises, (based on the screenplay "The Apartment" by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond), from the 1968 original Broadway cast recording starring Jerry Orbach, Jill O’Hara and Edward Winter with A. Larry Haines, Paul Reed, Dick O'Neill, Norman Shelley, Vince O'Brien, Marian Mercer, Millie Slavin, Adrienne Angel and Donna McKechnie.
This will be preceded by an introduction to the musical (via Skype) by the New York-based theatre critic, Internet columnist and author - Peter Filichia.
The programme will conclude with selections from the Bacharach and David score for the movie musical Lost Horizon, (based on the novel by James Hilton), from the 1973 soundtrack recording starring Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Olivia Hussey, (or their respective vocal "dubbers"), Bobby Van, Sally Kellerman, Shawn Phillips and James Shigeta,