By Pat Jenkins The Dispatch The laughs and are virtually curtain-to-curtain in The Fifth Avenue Theatre's new production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.GÇ¥ In a run that ends Feb. 21, the 1961 classic from the minds of comedy writer Abe Burrows and composer-lyricist Frank Loesser is an enduringly hilarious, satirical sendup of the office workplace. It combines a boy-meets-girl romance with the boy's quick rise from a mailroom job to the upper rungs of a company's corporate ladder through guileless, good-humored ambition and well-timed smooching of the right posteriors. Whether you've personally experienced such a business or office environment or not, the skewering of petty rivalries and politics in the workplace by "How to SucceedGÇ¥ rings true and is much appreciated, as testified in the lusty laughter of the audience at the Feb. 4 performance. There's never a dull moment in the storytelling by a cast headed by Erik Ankrim in the starring role of J. Pierrepont Finch, who outwits everyone at work and gets the girl he at first doesn't even know he wants. Prepare to laugh every step of the way.
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