NERDS gearing up for Broadway Fall 2008?

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 4:08am

According to a recent casting notice, it appears as if NERDS, a software musical satire, is gearing up for a Broadway production come Fall 2008......

Equity Casting Notice Updated On: 5/20/08 at 04:08 AM

[B3TA07]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 4:13am

I thought it was announced that it was going Off-Bway? It's not right for Broadway.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 4:22am

Ah. Here comes the flurry of generic comments that state this production wouldn't suffice as a Broadway production.....

[B3TA07]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 4:25am

You ****ing bitch, if I though it would, I would say it would. Grow up and realize that not all theatre = Broadway and not all opinions on here are solely built by by peer pressure, following the crowd, and assumptions.

Oh and Hugh Panaro can't act...the end.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 4:37am

I love you. Let's get married.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 9:09am

Well it's true though, I think plenty of us (myself included) didn't think The Drowsy Chaperon could work in its house, or In The Heights, et. al. So I'll say this one can work on Broadway, as long as its not going in some crazy big house.

[Theatreboy33]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 10:11am

This can work on Broadway. It's actually much better suited to Broadway than something like Title of Show. It has a familiar (albeit highly exaggerated) story with well known characters and a hillarious catchy score. It's more like Xanadu in my opinion: not an 'important' musical, but very well written and highly entertaining.

All that said, I wish they would go back to the casting style that the original workshoped production at NYU in 2003 had. That production had cast the Bill Gates role with a female actress playing a hysterically whiny man-child version of Gates. The costume design had her looking exactly like Gates and withthe whiny sort of 'It's Pat!' voice she did as Gates, it was HYSTERICAL. What also played so brilliantly then was a sort of odd, misplaced romantic tension/envy between Gates and Jobs, what with Jobs always coming off as so dashing and Gates, hard as he tries, failing to do so. I know that subsequent productions have all cast Gates with a male, as this production will, but if anyone here saw the NYU production, back me up here. It may have been a college we-have-too-many-girls issue. But if that was the case, the result was a happily hilarious accident.

[Dolly_Levi]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 10:13am

Wasn't Sean Hayes in an early incarnation of this out in LA?

Who did he play?

Any chance he might be involved with the project on B'way?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 10:20am

I saw this in Phildadelphia last year. I really enjoyed it, but I don't see it catching on enough to sustain a long Broadway run.

[i*heart*fame]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 10:20am

Sean Hayes was Gates in LA and I hear that he was fabulous.

[Dolly_Levi]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 10:22am

Thanks fame.

[Popular]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 10:35am

Broadwaybelter, check your PM's

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 10:42am

I would love to see Sean Hayes in this one.

So many new musicals for next year!

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 12:19pm

another Bway musical?

For those who saw the previous workshops, is the material any good?

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 12:23pm

I saw it in Philadelphia last year and it was good. I hope that they have re-worked the ending though, I though it didn't work.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/20/08 at 12:30pm

There's also this grandmother character that I did not get at all, who is always muttering (often anachronistic) song lyrics. I hope that character was altered or removed.

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 5/23/08 at 1:28pm

I guess this confirms it, even more.....
Producers Want to Download Nerds The Musical Into a Broadway Theatre

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 5/23/08 at 1:28pm

Circle?

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 5/23/08 at 1:31pm

I won't see it until they put an exclamation point at the end.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/23/08 at 1:33pm

The characters include Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Paul Allen (Gates' best friend), Steve Wozniak (Jobs' best friend), Sally (the love interest of the rivals), Myrtle (a nerd who blossoms), plus three male principal tracks that include multiple roles. There is no ensemble in Nerds.

Phyllis, unless the grandmother is played by a male (is she? ), the grandmother character seems to be gone... or playbill forgot to add her.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 5/23/08 at 2:48pm

She was indeed played by a male.
Updated On: 5/23/08 at 02:48 PM

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/23/08 at 2:49pm

I feared as much...In that case, let's brace ourselves.

[bwaybabe2]

Posted: 5/26/08 at 5:50am

B3TA07...isn't broadwaybelter male...?...does not quite qualify for your opening line ={

Also, why can't people keep their "off adjectives" for home...?!
I'm not trying to be a Thesaurus, but...there are other just as potent adjectives (nouns, etc...) one can use to make a point, than swearing, yeah? =I

[YoYo12345]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 12:58am

I think this is a fun show and excited for it to at least make a run...

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:24am

When I saw it there was clown that made absolutely no sense what so ever.