The run closed March 6, 1965
- Opened
- October 14, 1961
- Closed
- March 6, 1965
- Performances
- 1,417
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Richard Rodgers Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 9th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying 2 more that season
| 1995 | Revival Revival | 548 perf. |
| 2011 | Al Hirschfeld Theatre Revival · Rob Ashford | 473 perf. |
Who was in it71 named
Carol Jane Abney
Nick Andrews
Elaine Cancilla
Madilyn Clark
Tracy Everitt
Suzanne France
Charlotte Frazier
Robert Kaliban
Mara Landi
Fairfax Mason
Ray Mason
Bob Murdock
Darrell Notara
Paul Reed
Casper Roos
Silver Saundors
Ellie Somers
Maudeen Sullivan
Claudette Sutherland
Rosemary Yellen
Maureen Arthur
Richard Barclay
Leta Bonynge
Felice Camargo
Joy Claussen
Gene Cooper
Georgia Creighton
Jeff Debenning
Don Emmons
Hal England
Alice Evans
Pat Ferrier
Len Gochman
Renee Gorsey
Mickey Gunnerson
Enid Hart
Harris Hawkins
Patrick Heim
Curtis Hood
Todd Jackson
Kaarlyn Kitch
Fayn le Veille
Lois Leary
Carole Lindsey
Bruce Mackay
Iva March
Suzanne Menke
Anne Nathan
Randy Phillips
Renata Powers
Ralph Purdum
Brooke Roma
Alice Shanahan
Ron Stratton
Dean Taliaferro
Ronnie Welsh
Nanette Workman
14 of these 71 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 57 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters10 roles recorded
Robert Morse J. Pierrepont Finch
Bonnie Scott Rosemary Pilkington
Charles Nelson Reilly Bud Frump
Rudy Vallée J. B. Biggley
Claudette Sutherland Smitty
Virginia Martin Hedy LaRue
Ruth Kobart Miss Jones
Paul Reed Bert Bratt
Sammy Smith Mr. Twimble/Wally Womper
Carl Princi (uncredited) 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
- Abe Burrows
- Choreographer
- Bob Fosse
- Producer
- Cy Feuer & Ernest Martin
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.
Tony Awards 7 from 8 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Around this production
Robert Morse sang "I Believe in You" to his own reflection in a mirror. The song sounds like a love ballad but is actually a narcissist\'s self-pep talk.
- 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. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 204
- HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING 1,417 performances Opened October 14, 1961; Closed March 6, 1965 Theatre World 2003 04 Season V 60 Willis, p. 293
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 in Business Without Really Trying at all.
- No show page for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. 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.