Venue: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Address: 500 S. Goodwin Ave. , Urbana

Cost:

posted 2:36 pm Jul 21
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By Frank Loesser Robert Anderson, director “What’s so funny about capitalism?” In this punchy and pungent satire on American business, everything from gender roles to corporate control to personal ambition turns hilarious. With a how-to book in hand, J. Pierrepont Finch, ambitious window cleaner, maneuvers his way through corporate striving and rat-race skullduggery to the strains of “I Believe in You” and “Brotherhood of Man.” Frank Loesser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy, first staged in 1961 and triumphantly revived in 1995, still lets us taste the bitter along with the sweet. For more information, visit: s35973.gridserver.com/