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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

We hold no picture of this show. This is Robert Morse, who was in the 1961 production.
We hold no picture of this show. This is Robert Morse, who was in the 1961 production. Carl Van Vechten

Shows · How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1961 musical by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name. The story concerns young, ambitious J.

Opened
1961
Performances
1,417
Type
Musical
Era
Golden Age
Music: Frank LoesserLyrics: Frank LoesserBook: Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock & Willie Gilbert

Productions3 on Broadway

1961 46th Street Theatre Original. October 14, 1961 · Abe Burrows 1,417 performances · 7 Tony wins
1995 Revival Theatre unknown. March 23, 1995 548 performances · 1 Tony wins
2011 Al Hirschfeld Theatre Revival. March 27, 2011 · Rob Ashford 473 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

2 passages naming How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

On March 23, 1995, the 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying returned to this theatre. The famed show was favorably received and won a Tony Award for its star, Matthew Broderick, his second at this theatre. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p204

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING 1,417 performances Opened October 14, 1961; Closed March 6, 1965 book:theatre-world-2003-04-season-v-60-willis#p293

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