How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. A musical with music and lyrics by by Frank Loesser, and the book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert. Opened on Broadway in 1961, won 7 Tony Awards and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Performance history in South Africa

First staged in South Africa by Brian Brooke at the Brooke Theatre in 1965. Cast included George Grant; John Whiteley; Kevin Lee; Willie Camillera; Paul Janssen; John Hayter; Melody O'Brian; Jack Payne; Elaine Dyer; Ronnie Grainge; Joy Hillier; George Korelin; Leonne Carnot; Mary Harrison; Gerry de Beer. Musical staging and choreography by Frank Staff, musical direction by Dennis Wilman, costumes by Robert Fletcher.

Sources

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying theatre programme, Brooke Theatre, 1965.

Tucker, 1997. 202.

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