HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
 


Finch is a window washer who finds a book called "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." He uses this book to help him get a job at World Wide Wickets and move up in the company. Frump, a co-worker whom he left behind when moving up, tries in many different ways to sabotage Finch. In the end, Finch is forced to make a few choices without his book.

 

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1962 Tony Award
Best Musical
Best Author of a Musical
Best Actor in a Musical
(Robert Morse)
Best Featured Actor in a Musical
(Charles Nelson Reilly)
Best Direction of a Musical
Best Conductor and Musical Director
Best Producer of a Musical

1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

1995 Tony Award
Best Actor in a Musical
(Matthew Broderick)

1995 Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Actor in a Musical
(Matthew Broderick)

BROADWAY PREMIERE
Oct. 14, 1961, played 1417 performances

REVIVAL
Mar 23, 1995, played 548 performances
 
COMPOSER & LYRICIST
Frank Loesser

LIBRETTIST
Jack Weinstock, Abe Burrows, and Willie Gilbert
 
ORIGINAL CAST
Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee, Bonnie Scott, Virginia Martin, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ruth Kobart, Sammy Smith and Donna McKechnie

DIRECTOR
Abe Burrows

CHOREOGRAPHER
Bob Fosse
 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

PRODUCTION RIGHTS
Music Theatre International

LYRICS
www.bestweb.net/~foosie
 
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