HOW TO SUCCEED... Dated? — Page 2

This is where we diverge in what is worth exploring satirically.

Today a satire about corporate culture has bigger fish to fry than (while still important) sexism, nepotism and ambitious window washers.

In 1961, that might have enough, but today we can only WISH those were the worst things corporate culture contributed to the world.

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I think it is dated, but I also think it's such a solid, well done show/score that you can still appreciate it on that level, if that makes sense. There are some dated shows that for me just don't work with modern audiences as anything but maybe a nostalgia piece if the audience knows something about the times. Other shows, like H2$, still have enough of, God all this sounds so backhanded but, "crowd pleasing" moments that it just works. (But no, compared to Guys and Dolls, which of course people always compare it to, it doesn't work quite as flawlessly as G&D, at least usually, does). I do think that it holds up better than Promises Promises, a show that (I somewhat guiltily admit) sentimentally I prefer.

Duh! Of COURSE it is - that's the freaking CHARM of it!!

You'd better not see the new film of Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte is a bit dated...

Then you belong in Los Angeles, where they update everything to new by demolishing and destroying the old.