NERDS gearing up for Broadway Fall 2008?

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

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

I love you. Let's get married.

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.

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.

Thanks fame.

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I would love to see Sean Hayes in this one.

So many new musicals for next year!

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.

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

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

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She was indeed played by a male.

Updated On: 5/23/08 at 02:48 PM

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

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