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

[Alex M]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 10:50am

http://www.nerdsmusical.com

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

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 10:52am

Look out Hamylton!

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 10:52am

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

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 10:56am

It will be eaten alive, as has been discussed in the Longacre thread. Next?

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 10:57am

That's a fabulous website.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 10:58am

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.

 

[Cupid Boy2]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 10:59am

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.

 

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:01am

OK for those who look now, it did indeed say the Longacre at the bottom.

[Alex M]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:01am

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

[Alex M]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:10am

Website is back

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:13am

Truly the most exciting announcement site since Leap of Faith. 

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:14am

This is so bizarre. 

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

[Broadway kid 2]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:18am

KJisgroovy said: "This is so bizarre. 

 

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

 

"

 

[Broadway kid 2]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:18am

KJisgroovy said: "This is so bizarre. 

 

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

 

"

 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:20am

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

[Kad]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 11:58am

A plain font on a grey background screams musical satire!

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 12:09pm

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

[Kad]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 12:26pm

Mormon didn't need an exciting logo when it had "from the creators of South Park" right above it.

[newintown]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 12:50pm

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

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 1:28pm

^ "Like I said..." - Aaron Burr

[Keiichi2]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 1:52pm

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

 

I insist that this be part of the marketing campaign.

[neonlightsxo]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 4:14pm

Wait...the breakdowns just went out? They haven't even cast this yet?

http://www.playbill.com/jobs/job_detail/379674

I guess I shouldn't be shocked.

[JM226]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 4:20pm

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. 

[Smaxie]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 4:28pm

The Longacre is a Shubert house.

[JM226]

Posted: 1/14/16 at 4:29pm

why wouldnt his own employer find a theater for his show