Nerds the musical to open at the Longacre theater this March!

http://www.nerdsmusical.com

Updated On: 1/14/16 at 10:50 AM

Unless it has changed substantially in the past few years, this will be eaten alive.

Even the title makes makes me want to pull by hair out. I get that it's a period piece, but the audience isn't living in the 1980s.

Updated On: 1/14/16 at 10:52 AM

That's a fabulous website.

neonlightsxo said: "Smaxie said: "That's a fabulous website."

Indeed. Did they already pull the date and the theater name? It was on there the first time I checked."

I don't see it either.

They had the theater and a ticket link up for a few minutes.

Truly the most exciting announcement site since Leap of Faith.

KJisgroovy said: "This is so bizarre.

How do you secure a Broadway theater before you hire a website designer?

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They could at least have made it in like low-fi green pixel font so that it matches the show.

The original artwork for Book of Mormon when it announced a Broadway run:

Pull quotes from 2005, 2007 and 2013 productions:

NY Times (Rob Kendt) , Sept 24 2005

“Nerds, part of the New York Musical Theater Festival, is noticeably a work in progress, though, with as many dud jokes as inspired moments. Mr. Goldberg's score lovingly invokes vintage sounds, but the lyrics are a mixed bag of semi-ironic sincerity and computer puns. In that spirit, consider this Nerds a promising if buggy Version 1.0 and look forward to the upgrade.”

Broad Street Review, Feb 3, 2007

The lyrics and dialogue rely heavily on predictable double-entendres equating computer functions with sex (I’m going to hack into your system and get some anti-virus software) or just plain sophomoric word play (I’d be happy to give you a hand, Jobs). Boil this material down to ten minutes and you have a cute skit for Saturday Night Live. Stretch it out to two hours, as Nerds does, and you have torture worthy of Abu Ghraib… self-congratulatory, repetitive and pointless.”

Talkin’ Broadway Philadelphia, Feb 2007

“Nerds is a musical that purports to tell the story of how the computer business has developed over the past thirty years, but its tone is so irreverent that it practically winks at the audience for two hours as if to say "don't take this seriously." Unfortunately, that means this show is sometimes a little too slight for its own good; it works at one cute level, but never tries to go much further… I began wondering if all the songs would be about the same subject; as it turned out, I was half right - more than fifty percent of the songs are about the trials and tribulations of nerd-dom. And after the show makes its initial points, it doesn't really have much to say. All this show is concerned about is making jokes, no matter how smug and condescending those jokes might be.”

Philadelphia City Paper, Dec 12 2013

“It’s a great premise for a musical, and there’s a lot to like, not least the bubbling energy and enthusiasm. The music is not always memorable, and the jokes are unreliable — the hit-to-miss ratio is roughly two to one... Instead of evoking young-adult brainiacs, the actors seem to be playing arch versions of children — more than once, I was reminded of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown."

Updated On: 1/14/16 at 12:50 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZVdR19E5mU

I insist that this be part of the marketing campaign.

the guy who werote the music for this show is an executive at Jujamcyn. is the longacre a Jujamcyn theater? if so, then that's how they got it. even with such a terrible show like this.

why wouldnt his own employer find a theater for his show