How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a Pulitzer Prize - award-winning musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser singing. The book is by Abe Burrows, after the dramatic adaptation of Willie Gilbert and Jack Weinstock a novel of the same name ( German title: How to make career Business Without Really Trying ) by Shepherd Mead.

The show was produced by Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin in collaboration with Frank Loesser production company; the film is directed by Abe Burrows; the choreography was worked out mainly by Bob Fosse. The premiere took place on 14 October 1961 at the 46th Street Theatre in New York. With 1417 performances, the musical was a huge success.

The opening in the West End was on 28 March 1963 at the Shaftesbury Theatre; the musical was performed there 520 times.

The German -language premiere was on 21 December 1965 at the "Theater an der Wien " in Vienna under the direction of Rolf Kutschera instead. The translation was by Robert Gilbert and Gerhard Bronner. Harald Juhnke and Theo Lingen played the lead roles, the piece came en suite 62 times the performance.

For their 50th anniversary, the show 27 March 2011 was staged and choreographed new in New York Al Hirschfeld Theatre by Rob Ashford. The main roles were to be seen until January 2012 Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette. Since 24 January 2012, the main role of J. Pierpont Fintch by Nick Jonas and the role of JB Biggley is played by Beau Bridges.

Content

Time and Place: New York City at the time of emergence of the piece

Actually, J. Pierrepont Finch would have to be with the cleaning the windows of the " World Wide Wicket Company " building busy, but it gets the career guide " How to become something in life, without exerting himself " in the hands. With this he goes bravely into the building and meets the president of the company, JB Biggley, he immediately asks for a job - and the secretary Rosemary Pilkington, who is entranced not only for its research occurrence of him. Rosemary's sympathy from then gives him a friendlier climate in the antechambers of management and access to information about them.

He gets his first job with their help, and by the ambiguous naming JB Biggleys against the hiring manager - for now at the post office. There Finch listen humbly to the speeches of the department manager and is immediately identified by the latter for its successor. What he objects to the statement that ( his competitor ) Bud Frump would be more useful for the company in this position. Bud Frumps mother is Biggleys sister, their constant jostling for favoring her son is Biggley extremely annoying. This, Finch's unselfishness and his good relationship with Miss Jones, Biggleys secretary, pay off - Milt Gatch makes him the " Plans and Systems Department " as his deputy.

Now Finch tried to Biggleys attention. He plays the brave, nourishes the adoption Biggleys that he had attended the same elite university and deceptive same interests ago. That brings him an office and Hedy La Rue, Biggleys beloved, as a secretary. Counter Gatch, who is known as womanizer, he intrigued by Hedy past sends him - a little later he sits on Gatchs items. The new head of the advertising department admits Finch casually out of the way.

As head of advertising Finch launching a promotional campaign - a TV treasure hunt with hiding in the headquarters. The thing goes wrong, the building is stormed and demolished. Finch's career seems in the end, but Wally Womper, Chairman of the "Board of Directors", to which he must submit his resignation has even begun as a window cleaner. Thus Finch Chairman of the "Board " while Womper Hedy La Rue is going on tour.

In the German version of Robert Gilbert and Gerhard Bronner some of the characters have been renamed, for example: J. Pierrepont Finch ( Hannibal Fink); Bud Frump ( Fred Strunk ); Miss Jones ( Miss Meier )

Well-known musical numbers

  • I Believe in You

Awards

The Broadway production won seven Tony Awards in 1962 in the categories:

In the same year Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows received the Pulitzer Prize for the musical.

Filming

The musical was in 1967 also titled How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ( German release title: How to Succeed in Business Without Really to strain ), a film by David Swift.

West End of London Tony Award for Best Musical Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
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