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THEY KEY TO SUCCESS

A singing and dancing Matthew Broderick clims the corporate ladder in Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows's How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying

Here's a piece of free advice on how to succeed in business: "If you have education and intelligence and ability, so much the better. But remember that thousands have reached the top without any of these qualities." 

That perspective, satirical, somewhat cynical and--regrettably--altogether still-relevant bit of wisdom was first heard on the stage in 1961, when an ambitions win-dow washer named J. Pierrepont Finch made up his mind to climb the corporate ladder the old fashioned way: by fawning, brown-nosing, sucking up and a touch of backstabbing. And doing so hilariously. 

Such antics might not earn approval as a formula for success, but they did earn a Pulitzer Prize for Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows, who wittily tell of Finch's rise to the top of the World Wide Wickets Company in How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying. In addition to becoming just the fourth musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the show received seven Tony Awards, made a star of Robert Morse and ran longer (1,417 performances) than any other Loesser vehicle, including his previous collaboration with Burrows, Guys and Dolls.

Finch is back on Broadway in the person of Matthew Broderick, who stars in a new and somewhat reconsidered production of How To Succeed. The show is directed by Des McAnuff, who re-teams with choreographer Wayne Cilento and set designer John Amone, all Tony Award winners for Tommy. They are joined by

Above: The cast of How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying at the Richard Rodgers Theatre perform "The Company Way"

by Sheryl Flatlow

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