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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. Misleading topic... again! by p0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    What. Don't Slashdot editors have the power to "edit" the topics? Really, misleading topics like this should never ever happen here.

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  2. No. by Doctor+Ian · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a musical about them, not starring them.

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  3. Sample Songs Available in mp3 format! by tpgp · · Score: 4, Informative

    (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

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    1. Re:Sample Songs Available in mp3 format! by tpgp · · Score: 3, Informative

      Sorry,

      I should have clarified:

      Famous Last Nerds is the official website of the duo who wrote the musical in question.

      I found the mp3s I linked to on this page

      I guess I could've coral cached the links - but screw it - they're commercial artists distributing promotional songs - I assumed they'd have the neccessary bandwidth.

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  4. The real article by LkDotCom · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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