How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying - 2009
This show was written for stage in 1961 and is one of only six musicals ever to have won a Pulitzer prize for Drama (1962). In 1967 it was made into a film but more recently it was a Tony award winning Broadway production in 1995 with Matthew Broderick in the lead.
It is a funny (and highly topical!) piece about one man's rise from being a Window-washer up the corporate ladder in an incompetent, hierarchical company - a modern day satire, if you will! The show has many great tunes such as "Company Way", "A Secretary is Not a Toy", "Brotherhood of Man" and the title song "How to".
Director - Seán O’Farrell
Musical Director - Marcus Davidson
Cast
J Pierpont Finch - Kevin Shen | Rosemary Pilkington - Mary Dunn | JB Biggley - Barry Pave | Bud Frump - Tom Scambler | Smitty - Manuela Langotsch | Hedy La Rue - Karina Knapinska | Mr Bratt - Neil Carmichael | Mr Gatch - Darren JA Knight | Miss Krumholtz - D’Angeles da Silva | Mr Jenkins - Roy Parris | Mr Twimble/Mr Tackaberry - Jude Figueria | Miss Jones - Pauline Seagroatt | Daniel Ovington/TV Announcer - Richard Seagroatt | Mr Womper - Seán O’Farrell | Book Voice - Dave Chaisty | Chorus -Kimberley Barrios / Alia Waheed / Charlotte Knell / Debbie Featherstone
