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Bill Gates To Star With Steve Jobs On Broadway

Posted by Zonk on from the all-singing-all-debugging-cast dept.

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."

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  1. Ha ha, very funny. by halcyon1234 · · Score: 5, Funny
    First we get the article about Google nerfing all non-indexed information. Now we get this one about a broadway musical about Bill Gates.

    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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  2. Cameo? by Mercedes308 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  3. Misleading headline by broothal · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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.

  4. I wonder... by Xarius · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Ballmer is going to do his wonderful "Developers, Developers, Developers!" Song?

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  5. Monsters Inc Musical by GaryPatterson · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

  6. How to Succeed in Business... by dexter+riley · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...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!