'How to Succeed' in White Plains
You can’t blame Matt Wilson if he’s hearing voices these days.
As J. Pierrepont Finch, the lead character in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” - which begins a three-week run tonight at the White Plains Performing Arts Center - Wilson hears the “voice” of the book offering tips on how to achieve what the title suggests.
The voice is provided by Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce (”Curtains”).
In the musical - which won six Tonys, including best musical, and the Pulitzer Prize in 1962 - Finch, a window washer who dreams of climbing the corporate ladder, begins doing just that, when he follows the book’s advice.
But there are other voices, too.
There’s J.B. Biggley, the big boss of World Wide Wickets, a pompous and impervious character played by Nick Wyman, a Broadway veteran of “Les Miserables” and “The Phantom of the Opera.”
“He’s risen to the top with the force of his personality,” Wyman says. “I play arrogant blowhards a lot.”
In September, Wyman brings “A Tale of Two Cities” to Broadway, playing the opportunistic Barsad, at the Hirschfeld Theater, where Hyde Pierce is now appearing in “Curtains.”
Wyman, a longtime Westchester resident who now calls Yonkers home, says he’s enjoying the short 20-minute commute to the theater in downtown White Plains.
Wilson is a fixture on the Emmy-winning PBS kids series “Cyberchase.” He plays Harry, the juggling unicyclist who finds math all around him.
The part of Finch proved difficult to cast, director Eleanor Reissa says.
“All we needed was a guy who sang great, acted great, was funny, personable, warm and could dance. That was all we needed,” she says. “Matt came in and won the part hands down.
“There were maybe three other guys before Matt and it was a nail-biter - ‘Where is the lead?’ - and then the lead walked in,” the director says.
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40. Spend an afternoon creating some ***** list to try to make the Digg front page.
That’s just down the road from me… I swear!
Its good for people to get these reminders from time to time.
i thought it was gonna be some bunk crap, but it was a good read, time to go do something outside!
They made one big screwup anyway. I guess you get what you pay for, but it’s kind of disappointing.
The amazing thing is that detonates after penetration not upon impact of the bunker.
Stop reading the newspaper/watching the news has to be one of the most irresponsible pieces of advice I’ve ever heard. “My mom tells me anything important,” go ***** yourself. Yeah, keep living your life in ignorance and go kiss in the rain… ***** tool.
Ehh, most of this list is just common sense or just down right cliché. I’d say the best way to live is just to enjoy life and have fun, even if that means being on the internet or playing video games.
What makes everyone happy is completely different. Some people find happiness in animals, others find it in helping other people–and yet others find it in discovering the world around them.This guy’s list simply doesn’t work for the average American. You can’t just “get rid” of debts by ignoring them. You can’t “ignore” problems and watch them disappear. Otherwise everyone would do it.If any modern, well to do person takes his advice, then when they got back it’d be a world of ***** for them.
They were suspended for lying on health forms, claiming that they didn’t “use tobacco”.Nice language abuse in the article though, especially the linkage to illicit drug usage. Sneaky.
They forgot:”***** everything that moves.”