How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying è un musical di Frank Loesser e libretto di Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock e Willie Gilbert, tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Shepherd Mead (1952). Il musical ha vinto il Premio Pulitzer per la drammaturgia e sette Tony Awards, tra cui miglior musical, ed è rimasto in scena per 1417 repliche. Il musical racconta del giovane e ambizioso J. Pierrepont Finch che, con l'aiuto del libro How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, fa carriera da semplice lavavetri a direttore della World Wide Wicket Company.

Nel 1967 ne è stato un adattamento cinematografico, Come far carriera senza lavorare con la regia di David Swift.

Numeri musicali

Atto I

• Overture
• How to Succeed - J. Pierrepont Finch
• Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm - Rosemary Pilkington
• Coffee Break - Smitty, Bud Frump e coro
• Company Way - Finch e Twimble
• Company Way (Reprise) - Bud, Twimble e cast
• A Secretary is Not a Toy - Bratt, Budn
• Been a Long Day - Smitty, Finch e Rosemary
• Been a Long Day (Reprise) - Bud, J.B. Biggley e Hedy LaRue
• Grand Old Ivy - Finch e Biggley
• Paris Original - Rosemary, Smitty, Miss Jone e ragazze
• Rosemary - Finch e Rosemary
• Act I Finale - Finch, Rosemary e Bud

Atto II

• Cinderella, Darling - Smitty e ragazze
• Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm (Reprise) - Rosemary
• Love From a Heart of Gold - Biggley ed Hedy
• I Believe in You- Finch e uomini
• I Believe in You (Reprise) - Rosemary
• Brotherhood of Man - Finch, Wally Womper, Miss Jones e uomini
• Company Way (Finale) - Cast

Cast

Production	J. Pierrepont Finch	Rosemary Pilkington	Bud Frump	J.B. Biggley	Smitty	Hedy LaRue	Miss Jones	Bert Bratt	Mr. Twimble	Book Voice
Broadway, 1961	Robert Morse	Bonnie Scott	Charles Nelson Reilly	Rudy Vallee	Claudette Sutherland	Virginia Martin	Ruth Kobart	Paul Reed	Sammy Smith	Carl Princi
Londra, 1963	Warren Berlinger	Patricia Michael	David Knight	Billy De Wolfe	Josephine Blake	Eileen Gourlay	Olive Lucius
Broadway, 1995	Matthew Broderick	Megan Mullally	Jeff Blumenkrantz	Ronn Carroll	Victoria Clark	Luba Mason	Lillias White	Jonathan Freeman	Gerry Vichi	Walter Cronkite
Tour americano, 1996	Ralph Macchio	Shauna Hicks	Roger Bart	Richard Thomsen	Susann Fletcher	Pamela Blair				Walter Cronkite
Broadway, 2011	Daniel Radcliffe	Rose Hemingway	Christopher Hanke	John Larroquette	Mary Faber	Tammy Blanchard	Ellen Harvey	Michael Park	Rob Bartlett	Anderson Cooper
Sostituzioni notevoli	Nick Jonas, Darren Criss		Michael Urie	Beau Bridges	Sara Jean Ford
Londra, 2015	Jonathan Groff	Cynthia Erivo	Ashley Robinson	Clarke Peters	Amy Ellen Richardson	Hannah Waddingham			Clive Rowe

Altri progetti

Altri progetti

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Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
• (EN) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
• (EN) Programmazione teatrale di How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying / How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (altra versione), su Internet Broadway Database, The Broadway League.