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"How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying"
Role: Rosemary Pilkington
Dates: 3/23/1995 - 7/14/1999
Theater: Richard Rodgers Theatre, NYC
Genre: Musical/Comedy/Revival/Broadway
Writer: Abe Burrows/Jack Weinstock/Willie Gilbert
Director: Des McAnuff
Opening Night Cast:
Megan Mullally....Rosemary Pilkington
Matthew Broderick....J. Pierrepont Finch
Jeff Blumenkrantz....J.B. Biggley
Victoria Clark....Smitty
Jonathan Freeman....Bert Bratt
Luba Mason....Hedy La Rue
Plot Outline:
J. Pierpont Finch, a young but bright window-cleaner buys a book - "How To Succeed In Business" and following its advice joins the multi-national but poorly-connected "World-Wide Wicket Company". Starting from the mail-room he rises to Vice-President in Charge Of Advertising using sneaky and dubious ways so that the person above him gets either fired or moved to another section of the company. He also starts slowly falling in love with secretary Rosemary Pilkington. Meanwhile, the president of the WWWC, J.B. Biggley, tries to have an affair with drop-dead gorgeous bubble-head Hedy LaRue, but she becomes a weapon used both by Finch and Bud Frump, Biggley's brattish and annoying nephew who believe that he should get all the breaks and not Finch. Can Finch rise to the top or will it all go down in flames.
• Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm
• Coffee Break
• The Company Way (Reprise)
• A Secretary Is Not a Toy
• Been A Long Day
• Paris Original
• Rosemary
• Act One Finale
• How To (Succeed) (Reprise)
• Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm (Reprise)
• I Believe In You
• Brotherhood of Man
• Finale
Official Show Poster
Wikipedia Page
Production Stills *Coming Soon*
One of the later replacements for Megan Mullally would be Broderick's future wife, Sarah Jessica Parker.
John Stamos later replaced Matthew Broderick in the lead role as J. Pierrepont Finch.
Writer Abe Burrows's son, James Burrows would also later work with Megan as the director of
Will & Grace.
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