***CANCELLED*** How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Music and Lyrics Frank Loesser
Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert
Based on "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" by Shepherd Mead
Directed by Don Brewer
This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, is a story about the triumph of the common man amid the buffoonery of big business. When a restless, creative, and ambitious window washer named J. Pierrepont Finch happens upon a book entitled 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying', he decides to begin his rise up the corporate ladder. With the book’s instructions and a dose of his own cleverness, Finch navigates his wild rise to the top of the World Wide Wicket Corporation, and he may just find love along the way.
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