RCA Victor Broadway
1961
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
About This Album
This single disc Deluxe Collectors' Edition of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Original Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (2003) features the Original Broadway Cast. The audio has been improved, thanks to the thorough sonic overhaul and 24-bit/96 khz digital remastering by Joe M. Samuels. The 1962 recording has likewise been significantly augmented with nearly half-an-hour of supplementary materials. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical comedy with few peers. The stage presentation was adapted from a novel by Shepard Mead. The author's intimate knowledge of corporate politics stemmed from Mead's concurrent experiences working as an advertising executive at the luminous firm of Benton & Bowles. The storyline recounts the exploits of J. Pierpont Finch, a highly motivated window washer. His rags-to-riches saga at the headquarters of the World Wide Wickets Company is detailed under the superb direction and script supervision of Abe Burrows, as well as the auspices of the equally luminous Frank Loesser, on what turned out to be the latter's final stage endeavor. After initially balking, the composer was eventually persuaded to accept what would become his last outing on the Great White Way.
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