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Philadelphia, PA
NERDS://A MUSICAL SOFTWARE SATIRE
book and lyrics by Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner, music by Hal Goldberg
Philadelphia Theatre Company
Musical Premiere
A number of Broadway talents are featured in this musical comedy about the pioneers in personal computing. The light-hearted show follows the parallel stories of technology pioneers Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as they blaze a path from garage inventors to warring titans of the computer revolution. From the invention of the floppy disk and the mouse to the present-day phenomenon of instant messaging and podcasting, the show hilariously celebrates the birth of computer technology and the two pop-culture icons that made it possible. The original score features songs titles including ‘Stroll Through the P.A.R.C.,’ ‘Think Different,’ ‘Let’s Merge,’ ‘The Windows Rap,’ and more.”
Male Leads: 2
CAST Featured are Jim Poulos (Broadway’s Rent, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) as Bill Gates and Charlie Pollack (Broadway’s Urinetown) as Steve Jobs, with Andrew Cassese, Joseph Dellger, Michael Parish DuDell, David Rossmer, Chandra Lee Schwartz, and Emily Shoolin.
CREATIVE Directed by Philip Wm. McKinley, who also staged the five-time Tony-nominated musical, The Boy from Oz and New York City Opera’s The Most Happy Fella starring Paul Sorvino. Choreography is by two-time Tony Award nominee Joey McKneely (Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Life). Musical direction is by Matt Doebler with musical supervision and arrangements by Nadia DiGallinardo. Designers are Alejo Vietti (costumes), Mike Baldassari (lighting), Fitz Patton (sound) and Zachary Borovay (projection).
PLAYWRIGHT Lyricist-librettists Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner also collaborated on the popular Off-Broadway production, The Bomb-itty of Errors, “a hip-hop add-rap-tation” of Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors. It has played in the West End in London and regionally, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Lyrics, nominated for the Outer Critics’ Circle Award, and won the Jefferson Award in Chicago and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Show at the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. The team co-created and starred in the hip-hop sketch comedy series Scratch and Burn for MTV and recently completed ten episodes of "Robot Chicken" for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim series. They are currently contemporizing the classic cartoon show Underdog for television as well as developing other projects for film and television. Composer Hal Goldberg has composed the music for The Children, Ma Vie En Rosewood, and A Play Without Gravity, with book and lyrics by Stan Richardson.
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