Daniel Radcliffe

PierreponThe “Harry Potter” actor, who famously stripped down to star in the play “Equus” in London and Broadway in the past few years, will make his return to the stage to play J. t Finch in a revival of “How To Succeed…,” based on a satirical self-help book.

In the musical, Radcliffe’s character is a window washer who uses the titular book to climb the ranks at the World Wide Wickets Company in New York City. Previews begin on February 26 and the show opens officially on March 27 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre.

The young star also went on to draw parallels between the world of 1960′s corporate America and today. “Well, I think, first of all, we live in times when big business is under a huge amount of scrutiny, and I think it will be fun for people to see big business have the piss taken out of it,” he added. “That’s going to be funny, and also, you’ve got with the advent of Facebook and especially, last year, with the film ‘The Social Network’ – Finch is kind of a period Mark Zuckerberg who is a kid who kind of comes to a realization that he’s smarter than everybody else out there and he won’t let being a kid in any way inhibit [him] from attaining what he wants.”

Designing the production are Derek McLane (set design) Catherine Zuber (costume design), Howell Binkley (lighting design), Jon Weston (sound design), Doug Besterman (orchestrations) and David Chase (music director and arranger).

The revival is produced by Broadway Across America (John Gore, Thomas B. McGrath, Beth Williams), Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Joseph Smith, Michael McCabe, Candy Spelling, Takonkiet Viravan/Scenario Thailand, Two Left Feet Productions/PowerArts, Jen Namoff/Fakston Productions, Hilary A. Williams, HOP Theatricals, LLC/Paul Chau/Daniel Frishwasser/Michael Jackowitz, and Michael Speyer – Bernie Abrams/Jacki Barlia Florin – Adam Blanshay/Arlene Scanlan/TBS Service.