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Don Stephenson directs The Marriott Theatre’s production of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING.

Daily Herald

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 […]

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘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 […]

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Chicago Theatre Review

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 […]

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Chicago Tribune

‘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 […]

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Chicago Tribune

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 […]

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