The run dates incomplete
- Opened
- March 27, 2011
- Closed
- —
- Performances
- 473
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 56th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
No closing date. 5,632 of 13,459 productions have none, and at this distance that means the ending was never recorded rather than that the run went on.
Who was in it4 named
4 of these 4 names have a person record behind them and link to one. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters10 roles recorded
Daniel Radcliffe J. Pierrepont Finch
Rose Hemingway Rosemary Pilkington
Christopher Hanke Bud Frump
John Larroquette J. B. Biggley
Mary Faber Smitty
Tammy Blanchard Hedy LaRue
Ellen Harvey Miss Jones
Michael Park Bert Bratt
Rob Bartlett Mr. Twimble/Wally Womper
Michelle Visage Book Voice
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Rob Ashford
- Choreographer
- Rob Ashford
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
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. Pierrepont Finch, who, with the help of the book How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, rises from window washer to chairman of the board of the World Wide Wicket Company. The musical, starring Robert Morse and Rudy Vallée, opened at the 46th Street Theatre on Broadway in October 1961, running for 1,417 performances. The show won seven Tony Awards, the New York Drama Critics' Circle award, and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 1967, a film base…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for How to Succeed... (2011 Revival) at all.
- When it closed.
- No show page for How to Succeed... (2011 Revival). The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.