
'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' review – a fun, inclusive take on a flawed satire
Joining the triumphant Guys & Dolls in London is another, lesser-known Frank Loesser musical from 1961, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Based on a humorous mock-instructional manual by Shepherd Mead, who, like the show’s protagonist, climbed the corporate ladder from the mail room to becoming vice-president of an advertising agency, it’s a too-gentle satire enlivened by Loesser’s bouncy songs. Other than a production back in the 60s, and a few fringe revivals since, like one at...