page: 1 2 3 4   October 14, 1961 46th Street Theatre Abe Burrows Bob Fosse Frank Loesser In this musical, an ambitious but corner-cutting young man named J. Pierpont Finch discovers a book that promises an easy method for climbing the corporate ladder. After landing a mailroom job at World Wide Widgets, Finch employs the book's wisdom to cheat his way up through the company ranks, satirizing the business world in the process. Vallee, Martin, and Morse.