Kate is frustrated that her engagement has gone on for three and a half years, only because Herbert has been expecting the Dow Jones average to hit the magic mark of 1000.

After she leaves, Wingate and his fellow tycoons try to talk Senator McFetridge out of using an investigation of Wall Street to help his next election campaign.

After all the tycoons eliminate each other as the perpetrators, they narrow down Kate as the suspect, but Senator McFetridge does not believe the scenario and plans to expose Wall Street corruption in a news interview.

The original director, Arthur Penn, was fired in favor of veteran George Abbott who had never before worked with producer David Merrick.

The David Merrick production was directed by George Abbott with choreography by Gillian Lynne (who was actually replaced by an uncredited Michael Bennett[2]).

In August 2009, a revised version of How Now, Dow Jones was presented by UnsungMusicals at the Minetta Lane Theatre as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.

The cast was led by Joseph Jefferson Award nominee Cristen Paige, Colin Hanlon and Fred Berman.

As revised by director Ben West, the new version featured three new songs that were cut from the original production: "Don't Let a Good Thing Get Away", "Where You Are" and "Touch and Go".

The production starred Cristen Paige, Jim Middleton, Fred Berman, Colin Hanlon, Shane Bland, Dennis O'Bannion, Elon Rutberg, and Cori Silberman, and was choreographed by Rommy Sandhu with musical direction and arrangements by Fran Minarik.

[4] Elsewhere, one of the songs, "Step to the Rear", caught on, and gave Marilyn Maye a major hit on Billboard's Easy Listening chart, where it peaked at number two.

One entire scene in the play—requiring a set, costumes and actors not used anywhere else in the production—was an elaborate parody of a then-current Dreyfus Fund commercial depicting a lion emerging from a subway to stride down Wall Street, and many jokes rely on audience's familiarity with the store Lane Bryant and The Graduate.

Goldman noted the play had a huge advance for a production without notable stars, which he attributed to the fact it was a musical about the stock market that was intended to be funny, and thus easier to sell to theatre party ladies.

[10] He said "The show, for all the effort, was not well received, but because of its advance sale, it ran; not long enough to make its money back, but it lasted the season.

This show, with no names and a mediocre score and a premise beyond credulity, had a cool half million in the till the night it opened.

"Walk Away" was a strong ballad, and "Step to the Rear," with Tony Roberts leading a group of marching Jewish widows, was the requisite showstopping production number.