I totally thought about this when @beforetoday started watching. I had fun in this play.

“Her pad, is to write in… and not spend the night in.  If thats’ what you plan to enjoy! NO!”

benita:

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In the number “A Secretary is Not a Toy”  you can see an uncanny resemblence to the Sterling Cooper floor plan as the men in gray suits stroll up and down the rows of steno machines reminding one another that

A secretary is not to be
Used for play therapy.
Be good to the girl you employ, boy.
Remember no matter what
Neurotic trouble you’ve got
A secretary is not a toy. 

She’s a highly specialized key component
Of operational unity,
A fine and sensitive mechanism
To serve the office community.
With a mother at home she supports;
And you’ll find nothing like her at FAO Schwarz.

These play was produced in 1961.  The Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Book; Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Drama Critics Circle Award were all snagged by it before the movie version came out in 1967. Aspirational lyricism!

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    I just watched How...Business Without Really Trying this weekend. Lots of fun,
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    I totally thought about this when @beforetoday started watching. I had fun in this play. “Her pad, is to write in… and...
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    A secretary is not a toy.
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    The show will be returning to Broadway in 2011 starring Daniel Radcliffe, (hopefully) David Hyde Pierce (he’s...
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    A secretary is not to be Used...play therapy. Be good to
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    It should be more famous for the number “Coffee Break.”
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