What It Takes to Build an Empire
by MICHAEL VAN DUZER are relatively few musicals that spend much time on a construction site. There are fewer still that focus on the design, funding and fabrication of a building. Even Skyscraper, the 1960s tuner that offered the unlikely spectacle of Julie Harris as a musical star, concentrated on a woman fighting to keep her brownstone away from the developers. (As it was the 60s, her happy ending included mar…