Sydney Morton & More to Join Billy Harrigan Tighe in World Premiere Secret of My Success Musical

Full casting is here for The Secret of My Success, a new musical based on the 1987 Universal Pictures film. The previously announced tuner, directed by Gordon Greenberg, will play a world premiere engagement at the Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Illinois from February 12 through March 29.

Joining the previously announced Billy Harrigan Tighe (The Book of Mormon) as Brantley/Carlton will be Sydney Morton (American Psycho) as Christy Lockhart, with Melody A. Betts as Rose Lockhart, Kai Edgar as Ernie Lockhart, Jeremy Peter Johnson as Piers Johnson, Heidi Kettenring as Vera Prescott, Barbara Robertson as Joanne Foster, Gabriel Ruiz as Lester Mann, Sara Sevigny as Sylvia Popkin and Ian Michael Stuart as Garth Portnoy.

The ensemble will include Ezekiel Ruiz, Dara Cameron, Brandon Dahlquist, Vasily Deris, Veronica Garza, Carisa Gonzalez, Madison Kauffman, George Keating, Jake Morrissy, Camille Robinson, Alexis J. Roston, Haley Jane Schafer, Jonathan Schwart, Charles Emery Ward and Travis Austin Wright.

With a book by Greenberg and Steve Rosen and an original score by Michael Mahler and Alan Schmuckler, The Secret of My Success follows Brantley Foster (Tighe), a young ambitious Midwesterner who moves to New York City to start his dream job at a major corporation, only to be laid off on the very first day. In his relentless enthusiasm to succeed, Brantley finds himself tangled up in a sidesplitting scheme in which he assumes the identity of a rising executive. As he climbs the corporate ladder, tirelessly concealing his identity, Brantley soon falls in love with a beautiful colleague named Christy (Morton) and discovers that his definition of success might be all wrong.

Gear up for the new musical with a look back at the film's trailer below.