I Can Get It for You Wholesale

I Can Get It for You Wholesale follows Harry Bogen, a young salesman who claws his way up in New York's garment district during the Great Depression. He cuts corners and betrays the people closest to him, including his mother and his girlfriend Ruthie, on his way to running his own dress company, and ends up alone once his methods catch up with him. It opened on Broadway in 1962 with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and a book by Jerome Weidman, based on Weidman's own novel.