Take a memo.

Dear White Plains Performing Arts Center:

Loved your first season of classic musicals, from “Man of La Mancha,” to the splendid “Ragtime,” to the finger-popping “Ain’t Misbehavin’.”

The emergence of your professional theater has been a happy development, giving theatergoers yet another alternative to high-priced Broadway shows and the attendant headaches of parking and traffic.

The final musical of your first season is a personal favorite: “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.” The Pulitzer Prize-winner, and Tony-winner for Best Musical, has some wonderful numbers and opportunities for fine performances, and it skewers corporate America in a clever but not malicious way.

Your director, Eleanor Reissa, has a first-rate cast, from Matthew Wilson as J. Pierrepont Finch (“that’s F-I-N-C-H”) to longtime Westchester resident Nick Wyman as the blustery but decisive J.B. Biggley, to the women in their lives: Patricia Noonan as secretary Rosemary Pilkington and the hilarious Jill Abramovitz as Hedy, Biggley’s girl on the side. The ensemble is noteworthy, each helping to create that corporate world of which Finch wants so desperately to be a part.

And it was a great touch to have the voice-overs of Finch’s guidebook done by Tony-winner David Hyde Pierce.

Your choreographer, Lorin Latarro, creates some memorable ensemble numbers. The frenetic “Coffee Break” song early in Act 1 – when the coffee urn is empty and the entire office is thrown into turmoil, is nothing short of genius. The precision of this number is a delight, each player a part of the whole, acting in unison in a quirking, jerking, twitching ball of caffeine-craving mania. Energetic and magnificent.

And there are some delightful duets.

“The Company Way,” a biting bit of satire, is another highlight, when Mr. Twimble, the 25-year mailroom boss tells Finch how he’s outlasted scores of executives.

Finch: “Your brain is a company brain.”

Twimble: “The company washed it, now I can’t complain.”

Steve Routman pulls double duty, as Twimble and, later, as Womper, the chairman of the board. In each, his deadpan delivery suits the role.

“Grand Old Ivy” is another standout, when Finch pulls the wool – or is that synthetic yarn? – over the eyes of Biggley, pretending that they attended the same school. Wilson and Wyman make a formidable comic team, with just enough slapstick to tickle and delight.

Wyman and Abramovitz have a lovely moment in “Love From a Heart of Gold,” when the towering Biggley scoops the platinum and ditsy Hedy into his arms.

They are clearly professionals. Wyman has appeared in “Les Miserables,” and “The Phantom of the Opera” and will be seen in “A Tale of Two Cities” on Broadway in the fall. Abramovitz was a Comedy All-Star understudy in “Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me.”

Ron DeStefano, as Bud Frump – Finch’s rival and Biggley’s nephew – is a proper mix of glide and slide, ready to slip in when any opportunity presents itself, or call his mother to complain if opportunities are about to slip away.

The company may not be Finch’s (yet) but the show certainly is – and Wilson doesn’t disappoint. His broad smile and clear voice are just what’s needed. He may sing “I Believe in You,” but the audience believes in him, too, as he charms his way into their hearts.

Choreographer Latarro doesn’t create elaborate dance numbers for Wilson – his moves are rudimentary – but one senses he might have been challenged a bit more and done just fine.

Noonan, a memorable Evelyn Nesbit in your production of “Ragtime,” has a fine voice but also isn’t asked to stretch too much when it comes to dancing.

Part of it may be that the stage is so sparely set.

In her first song, the lovely little number “Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm,” she sings to the excellent Linda Gabler as Smitty, about her hopes of marrying Finch and moving to New Rochelle – “or White Plains,” she ad-libs – and settling into a life where her hard-charging executive husband ignores her, and she loves it.

Noonan sings in the lobby of the World Wide Wicket Company, with only a bank of elevators and a bare stage. She moves from one side of the stage to the other, then center, and sings out.

Imagine if there were a reception desk at which she could sit Smitty (as Finch) down, set an imaginary dinner table, wave her hand in front of her husband’s face and, basically, play house. But we get none of that. Side to side, then center.

Vicki R. Davis’ set is a whole other set of problems – or, in corporate-speak, “opportunities.”

She devised several oversized panels designed to glide left and right to create doorways to offices – or spaces for elevators, which proved a handful for the stage crew. On opening night, the elevators were out of position and the panels misaligned, and stagehands were visible for long stretches at a time. If that’s going to be the case, put them in janitor costumes.

On a positive note, Emily Pepper’s costumes were spot on – with the “Paris Original” song not easy to costume – but the styles were immediately evocative of a period well before downsizing, outsourcing and golden parachutes.

Musical director James Bassi’s band was just loud enough without being overpowering.

There were glitches that can be ironed out but that really shouldn’t have been there in the first place.

But next year’s just-announced lineup – “Evita,” “Oliver!” “A Little Night Music” and “Hello, Dolly!” – offers four more reasons to visit a revitalized White Plains.

Yours truly,

Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Photo by Juan Carlos Wilken: Matthew Wilson as J. Pierrepont Finch and Patricia Noonan as Rosemary Pilkington in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” at the White Plains Performing Arts Center.

“How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”
When: Through May 11.
Where: White Plains Performing Arts Center, at Main Street and Mamaroneck Avenue, in the City Center mall.
Tickets: $50 and $60.
Information: 914-328-1600 or wppac.com.