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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

Music Theatre International
A stylized musical comedy satire of big business set in 1961 Big City Business, USA; the World Wide Wicket Company

Premiere Date

1961

By

Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, book - Frank Loesser, music and lyrics

Based On

Shepherd Mead's tongue-in-cheek book of the same name

Tracy Notes About This Show

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Plot Synopsis

Boyish hero, J. Pierrepont Finch owes his advancement - from window washer to Chairman of the Board of the World Wide Wicket Company... not to hard work but to making others work for him. This story traces Finch's step-by-step back stabbing way up the corporate ladder. The show skewers such aspects of Big Business as nepotism, old-school ties, the coffee break, the office party, the yes-men, the executive washroom, and the boardroom presentation.

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