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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.
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.
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)
"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.
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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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.
...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!