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Bill Gates To Star With Steve Jobs On Broadway
jg21 writes "As these pictures from a sneak-preview earlier this week demonstrate,
the "outrageous epic take on the parallel stories" of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs – as reported by the Seattle PI – is about to be unleashed this month at the New York Musical Theater Festival. Its title "Nerds://A Musical Software Satire" suggests that its in the same genre as Martyn Burke's 1999 movie Pirates in Silicon Valley. Woz features in the plot, too."
What. Don't Slashdot editors have the power to "edit" the topics? Really, misleading topics like this should never ever happen here.
This is my sig. There are thousands more, but this one is mine.
It's a musical about them, not starring them.
Trust me, I'm a doctor.
(Because this show premiered in 2003)
Windows Rap
Bill Gates busts a rhyme to release Windows
(Featuring the lyrics "remember my name, Bill Gates, bitch, pimp of the software game")
I Am Just A Nerd
Gates laments about his geeky past
My pics.
Didn't someone say these stars were going to leave the Microsoft Way?
I mean, seriously. When are these going to end? Haven't we had enough joke artc...
Wait. (Reads TFA).
They're serious?
Whoa. I think that permanetly put me off musical theater.
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One wonders if good ol' Steve will make a cameo appearance. Especially doing that used car salesman type type ad he did in the early 80's.
And no, I couldn't give a shit what my karma is.
Scroll down and look at the other stories that master of editoral disaster, Zonk, has posted over night.
;-)
I'd normally bet it was a night of drinking followed by lapses in judgement, but its actually just his normal quality of work.
And its indicitive of the fact that no one at Slashdot has given two squirts about the site since it was bought by VA or whoever it was back in the day.
And I can say that with the authority of someone with a 4 digit user id.
Honestly, this sounds like the worst idea ever.
It's "Pirates OF Silicon Valley." If the editors (Zonk) had bothered to follw the link that those word make he would have easily caught this. What's /. coming to?
Jeremy Logan's Website.
Compared to "editors" such as Jon Katz and Michael Simms he is a great journalist.
Mother is the best bet and don't let Satan draw you too fast.
From a little better editor:
Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner, authors of "The Bomb-itty of Errors," an award-winning, hip-hop Shakespearean play, have written "Nerds," which they call "a musical software satire." It is to be performed this week at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
The musical explores the lives of Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs, a founder of Apple, from their teenage years to the present, and includes supporting characters like Apple's other founder, Steve Wozniak, and fictional female love interests.
The authors said they had invited Mr. Gates, Mr. Jobs and Mr. Wozniak to an earlier production of the show at New York University. Only Mr. Wozniak responded, they said, but he did not attend. They said Mr. Wozniak told them that he would try to make it to the show this time. Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs declined to comment.
Jane L. Levere
On NYTimes here.
Grammar Zealots: please spare a non-english writer (lastknight dot com)
"Beelzebub has the source code put a-side for me-ee-ee, For meee... For meeee!"
I'm sure someone here can take the lyrics and turn it into a cool parody. :)
I lack the imagination. :/
His name is Robert Paulsen...
"Bill Gates To Star With Steve Jobs On Broadway"
Yeah, and Batman stars in his new movie "Batman begins".
But then again -a headline that read "Some unknown actor plays Bill Gates" would probably not be posted on slashdot.
'There is no word yet as to whether either the real Mr Gates or the real Mr Jobs are due to attend the opening night, which will be on September 20.'
If Ballmer is going to do his wonderful "Developers, Developers, Developers!" Song?
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Well even if the topic is misleading at least we can all rejoice that when we clicked on the pictures link we didn't have to actually see pictures of the REAL Bill Gates! I think we have all had enough of him! Zonk could have put Bill's ugly mug on the icon on the start page... if thats within his power ;)
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to Zonkdot. Seriously, everything on here is from Zonk.
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. -Theodor Adorno
Well blow me down with a feather!
Yeah, but who'd want to watch a show about some lonely, stinky, pasty geek living off Cheetohs in his mom's basement?
... because the editors know that they generate more comments and interest than the actual stories.
American Idol, when Simon says:
"I don't like music anymore..."
http://www.nerdsthemusical.com/main.htm two technological geniuses, as they blaze a path from "garage inventors"... No wonder they've quoted that. Steve Jobs did nothing but sell Apples, Ol' Woz made them and programmed them with this bare hands and didn't receive any credit. Whilst Gates stole his initial OS from Apple again. Remind me why these people are being played off as geniuses instead of criminals?
Is it just me, or does someone else think of the scene in Monsters Inc where Mike screams out "Put that thing back where it came from!" and then pretends it's a musical?
Pixar put it in the DVD as an extra bit. It was very good, but somehow I keep thinking of this story in the same vein.
???? Well, guess I'll put tomatoes and other sticky vegetables back to storage then.
And to think I almost bought a plane ticket to attend this target practice.
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"Its title "Nerds://A Musical Software Satire" suggests that its in the same genre as Martyn Burke's 1999 movie Pirates in Silicon Valley."
Are you sure that you mean the "crappy, inaccurate, made for TV genre" that Pirates OF Silicon Valley belongs to?
This is not a dream, not a dream...we are transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9.
...By Being an A**hole: Act One, Scene Four:
Ballmer:
I...am.
Gonna set this town, gonna set this world on FIRE!
I...am.
Gonna make our stock, gonna knock his block off HIGHER!
I...am!
Gonna be the one, be the shining sun, be the number one--
Bates:
(coughs)
Ballmer:
(sighs) Gonna be true blue, be the number two,
be the bastard whoooooo....
(runs down a line of chairs, scattering them across the stage)
Is gonna be! The! One! To!
Chorus:
He's! The! One! To!
Ballmer:
Swear-to-god I'll... (throws chair)
Chorus:
Juv! En! Ile! Wooo! (dodging chair)
Ballmer and Chorus:
Kill!
Goo!
--gle!!!!!!
(Big finish, orchestra swells)
Ballmer and Gates:
Yeah!
NY Music theatre festival != Broadway
The show is getting a small run, along with a TON of other shows as part of a yearly festival (of which there are several as well)...and the authors _hope_ it will move up to Broadway or off-broadway. The odds of that happening are pretty low; in fact even an extension in the same theatre is pretty momentous. For instance, from this year's Fringe festival (a more prestigious festival that just ended), there are about 10 shows out of 200 that are even lucky enough to _consider_ extensions. So the moral of the story is, don't expect to see this on Broadway anytime soon!
"Life is tough but we're tougher. You only get what you give, so give all that you've got." --Tony LaRussa
and even I find these editings by Zonk pathetic. Maybe his name is zonk because he's alseep at the keyboard. Seriously, WTF?
This is not hero worship.
This is not about how much these billionaires are respected.
It's Broadway. The dinosaur of the entertainment world that just won't go away. Ticket sales have been steadily going down for 10 years now. The only reason Broadway still exists is because of tourists and rich upper class snobs.
damaged by dogma
I'd stopped reading slashdot for a while and I come back assuming it's going to be as good as it was before. WTF is all this crap? If there's nothing worth posting, just don't post anything until there is, please!
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I saw it at Vassar as well (twice! - it was that fun :)). I'm actually disappointed that they didn't keep the same cast, as the guy who played Gates really did look like Billy Boy, and the new guy doesn't...
Anyway, for all the FUD the original article title was, it really was a good fun show, even if it wasn't up to the caliber of a Broadway "Spectacular". Too bad there aren't any tickets left - here's hoping it does well enough that it gets put on again...
Well... at least the girl with the orange shirt is a hottie.
Kill da Wabbit, Kill da Wabbit!
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Here is one with Balmer during the intro.
I don't know about anyone else, but I think the 2 girls in the pix are cute.
Hmmm... So are you suggesting that Broadway should go the way of the dinosaur? Why not the way of Classical Music. Broadway was at least as important as Bach in the develompent of culture. Considering that one of it's offsprings (The Music Video) is still doing quite well world wide. No. Not a dinosaur. A classic that deserves some level of respect. (Heh. And I HATE musicals)
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Good: Makes it more likely people click on the link because of the outrageous title.
Bad: Makes it less likely people will click on any links to Slashdot in the future.
Too bad...
My mother just read the article and saw the pictures. She says it could be a "Tony" winner. She hopes it, will come out to California. What intrests us both about this is, the people depicted in this play are possibily the most influential of our time, either positivly or negatively. The fact that none of these powerful people have filed suit against the production for things like "defamation, or slander" must lend some credit to it's honesty. I think it's interesting that this type of stuff is going on now instead of like 100 years or more after they die.. I am not for or against the decisions that these people have made, some Really suck and affect alot of people in verry negative ways, and there are some that are a Stroke of Genius that moves us forward, I guess it all depends on your perception of the given situation.. Thats my take, gk