News on your favorite shows, specials & more!

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Broadway Creative Team


How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Broadway

Production Staff

Abe Burrows Bookwriter
... read more
Willie Gilbert Bookwriter
... read more
Frank Loesser Composer
Lyricist
... read more
Shepherd Mead Source Material
(Based on book)
... read more
Jack Weinstock Bookwriter
Rob Ashford Choreographer
Director
Broadway credits as Director/Choreographer: Evita (Tony nomination), How to Succeed (Tony nominations Direction/Choreography), Promises, Promises (Tony nomination Choreography); as Choreographer: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award Best Choreography), Wedding Singer (Tony nom.), Cry Baby (Tony nom.), Curtains (Tony nom.). London - as Director: Anna Christie (Donmar), A Streetcar Named Desire (Donmar - Olivier nomination, Best Revival), Shrek The Musical; as Director/Choreographer: Parade (Donmar - Olivier nominations, Direction/Choreography); as Choreographer: Evita (Olivier nom.), Guys and Dolls (Olivier nom.), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Olivier nom.), Forum at The National Theatre. Other: 81st Annual Academy Awards (Emmy Award Choreography). Rob is a member of The ... read more
Brett J Banakis Assistant Scenic Designer
Brett Banakis is a Brooklyn-based designer of Scenery, Lighting and Film. ... read more
Doug Besterman Orchestrator
DOUG BESTERMAN is a three-time Tony Award winning musician with a career spanning across theatre, film, television and recording. As a Composer, Producer, Arranger, and Orchestrator, he has been privileged to work with some of the most recognizable names in the industry, including composers Mel Brooks, Alan Menken, and Marc Shaiman; recording artists Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow; and directors Rob Marshall and Susan Stroman. A veteran of 25+ Broadway shows, Besterman won the Best Orchestrations Tony Award® for Fosse, The Producers, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and was nominated for The Music Man (2000), How to Succeed in Business, and Bullets ... read more
Howell Binkley Lighting Designer
Binkley's Broadway credits includeSummer: The Donna Summer Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Come From Away (2017 Tony nomination), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 Olivier winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nomination), How to Succeed... (2011 Tony nomination), West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination). He is also the Co-Founder/Resident Lighting Designer for Parsons Dance. 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier and Canadian Dora Awards for Kiss of the Spider Woman. 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and ... read more
David Chase Musical Director
Music Arranger
David has been Music Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger for thirty-five Broadway productions. Most recently, David acted as dance arranger on Roundabout Theatre Company’s Kiss Me, Kate and Tootsie, currently on Broadway. Other theatre credits include: many arrangements for the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, The Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City Music Hall (where he spent many years as music director), EssentialVoicesUSA (including the upcoming Washington Women), and TV’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Music director for several productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (including The King and I with choreographer Peggy Hickey), and for NBC’s live performances of The Sound of Music ... read more Michael is the Executive Producer of a number of new musicals, including: the American Premiere of My Fairytale, a musical about Hans Christian Andersen by award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz at PCPA TheaterFest for the 2011 Centennial celebration of Solvang, CA; Séance on a Wet Afternoon the new opera by Stephen Schwartz, OSB, NYC Opera; Daddy Long Legs by John Caird and Paul Gordon; The Best Is Yet To Come: The Music of Cy Coleman devised and directed by David Zippel, Rubicon Theatre Company/59E59 Off-Broadway; Abyssinia: Praise Singer, a musical at Hackney Empire in London. Upcoming ... read more
Michael McCabe Producer
Michael McCabe is the UK Executive Producer of Wicked, winner of the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for ‘Most Popular Show'. In partnership with Joseph Smith, his West End producing credits include: Million Dollar Quartet; Spring Awakening, winner of the Critics' Circle Award for 'Best Musical' and 4 Laurence Olivier Awards including 'Best Musical' and, on Broadway, the new production of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, starring Daniel Radcliffe, and the Tony Award-winning revival of Promises, Promises, starring Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth. ... read more
Derek McLane Scenic Designer
Derek McLane received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He has designed over 350 productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally and for TV. His over 40 credits include Burn This, The Parisian Woman, Anything Goes, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Ragtime, I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Tony Award). He has designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC, including “Hairspray” (Emmy Award). ... read more
Neil Meron Producer
Joseph Smith Producer
Candy Spelling Producer
Candy Spelling is an American author, philanthropist, and socialite. Born as Carole Gene Marer on September 20, 1945, in Beverly Hills, California, she is the daughter of Augusta Gene and Merritt Marer. She attended Beverly Hills High School and later graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. Spelling is best known for being the widow of television producer Aaron Spelling, who was responsible for hit shows such as "Charlie's Angels," "Dynasty," and "Beverly Hills, 90210." The couple married in 1968 and remained together until Aaron's death in 2006. They had two children together, Randy and Tori Spelling, both of whom ... read more
Tom Watson Hair Designer
Tom Watson is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 45 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include The Addams Family; Promises, Promises; Elling; Million Dollar Quartet; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Wicked; Rock of Ages; South Pacific; Sondheim on Sondheim; A View from the Bridge; and Sunday in the Park with George. ... read more
Jon Weston Sound Designer
Paris and West End: An American in Paris. West End: Thoroughly Modern Millie; Rent; The Who’s Tommy. Broadway design credits include: Prince of Broadway; She Loves Me; Amazing Grace; An American in Paris; On the 20th Century; You Can’t Take It With You; The Bridges of Madison County; How to Succeed in Business…; The Color Purple; Caroline, or Change; Nine; The Green Bird; Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off-Broadway and Regional: Paradise Square (Berkeley Rep); Unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Papermill Playhouse); Footloose (Kennedy Center); Scotland, PA (Roundabout); Evita (Bay Street); Grey Gardens (Bay Street); The Last Five Years (Second ... read more
Craig Zadan Producer
Along with his producing partner, Neil Meron, Zadan's extensive career included works on the big and small screens, as well as the stage. Most notably, the team has produced NBC's annual live musicals including, The Sound of Music Live!, Peter Pan Live!, The Wiz Live!, Hairspray Live! and Jesus Christ Superstar Live! Their motion picture credits include, the movie musical Hairspray, Footloose and the Oscar-winning Best Picture, Chicago. The two have accrued an astounding 148 Emmy nominations, including honors for their television films Gypsy starring Bette Midler, Cinderella starring Whitney Houston and Brandy, Annie starring Kathy Bates, The Music Man ... read more
Catherine Zuber Costume Designer

Get How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Email Alerts

Be the first to get ticket offers, news, photos & more.

Awards and Nominations

2011 BroadwayWorld Awards
Best Choreography: Rob Ashford won.
Best Lighting Design: Howell Binkley won.
Best Revival of a Musical: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying won.
Best Scenic Design: Derek McLane won.

2011 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Choreography: Rob Ashford was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Rob Ashford was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: 0 was nominated but did not win.

2011 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Choreography: Rob Ashford was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Rob Ashford was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Musical : 0 was nominated but did not win.

2011 Theatre World Awards
Performance: John Larroquette won.
Performance: Rose Hemingway won.

2011 Tony Awards
Best Choreography: Rob Ashford was nominated but did not win.
Best Costume Design of a Musical: Catherine Zuber was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: Rob Ashford was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Howell Binkley was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Doug Besterman was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Michael Speyer-Bernie Abrams/Jacki Florin-Adam Blanshay/TBS Service was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Larry Kaye/Paul Chau/Daniel Frishwasser/Michael Jackowitz was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Hop Theatricals was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Two Left Feet Productions/PowerArts was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Jen Namoff/Fakstone Productions was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Hilary A. Williams was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Takonkiet Viravan/Scenario Thailand was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Candy Spelling was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Michael McCabe/Joseph Smith was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Neil Meron was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Craig Zadan was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Broadway Across America was nominated but did not win.

Videos