Paper Mill Playhouse’s “The Producers” Should Sing When You Got It Flaunt It
by Suzanna Bowling read review on T2Conline.com Director Don Stephenson’s The Producers at Paper Mill Playhouse is delightful, effervescent and dare I say, better than the Broadway production? The cast is flawless with David Josefsberg (On Broadway in An Act of God, Honeymoon in Vegas, Les Misérables, Motown, The Wedding Singer) as the definitive Leo […]
Marriott tackles dated jokes head-on — and succeeds
by Scott C. Morgan read review on DailyHerald.com How does a theater succeed at producing a period piece like “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” when so much of it is deemed to be politically incorrect today? The Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire’s exceedingly polished and purely entertaining answer is to get a comedy […]
‘How to Succeed’ earns a corner office for Marriott
by Hendy Weiss read review on Chicago.SunTimes.com The rapid-fire clatter of fast-fingered secretaries pounding away on manual typewriters fills the air. Pastel shirtwaist dresses are all the rage. And both men and women wear hats. More to the point, observing all this from his window-washing perch outside a high-rise Manhattan office building is a young […]
Around The Town Chicago review of “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying”
by Alan Bresloff read review on AroundTheTownChicago.com Highly Recommended ***** I am often asked why they don’t create musicals like the good old days? The answer is fairly easy- the people who wrote the music , lyrics and stories are no longer here to create the lovely musicals that have an audience humming and dancing […]
Rising to the Top of the Corporate Ladder
by Colin Douglas read review on ChicagoTheatreReview.com As the overture winds down, a young man in coveralls descends from above. J. Pierrepont Finch, an ambitious young window washer, is discovered reading Shepherd Mead’s instruction book, of the same name, while dangling from scaffolding above Madison Avenue. Narrated by Emily Loesser, the book progresses chapter-by-chapter, charting […]
‘How to Succeed in Business’ a satire about the unskilled
view feature on ChicagoTribune.com by Catey Sullivan For five years, actor Ari Butler has had up-close and personal access to the most exclusive halls of corporate power. In between theatre shows, Butler travels the world at the behest of Fortune 500 CEOs, called in to school the business world’s upper 1 percent on executive leadership […]
The Marriott Theatre to Present HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING This Fall
view feature on BroadwayWorld.com From the bustling streets of 1960’s New York City comes the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical comedy, HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, continuing The Marriott Theatre’s acclaimed 2016 Season, previewing August 24, running through October 16 with a press opening on Wednesday, August 31 at 8 […]
Casting announced for ‘How to Succeed’ at Marriott
by Morgan Greene view feature on ChicagoTribune.com The Marriott Theatre announced the cast of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” on Tuesday. The production stars Ari Butler as J. Pierrepont Finch, Jessica Naimy as Rosemary Pilkington, Terry Hamilton as J.B. Biggley, Angela Ingersoll as Hedy LaRue, Alex Goodrich as Bud Frump, Felicia P. Fields […]
STRUCK at NJ Rep is Engaging and Intriguing
“It feels like the universe is trying to tell me something.” -STRUCK The World Premiere of STRUCK by Sandy Rustin is now onstage at New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ Rep) through July 31st. With meticulous direction by Don Stephenson and featuring a stellar cast, this show is both entertaining and thought provoking. STRUCK strikes the […]
‘Struck’ in NJ Rep world premiere
by Tom Chesek view article on app.com In “Struck,” the play that goes up in its world premiere this weekend at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, a woman finds her routine life taking an unexpected, maybe even cosmic turn when she is hit by a bicycle while crossing a New York City street. […]