Bill Gates To Star With Steve Jobs On Broadway 84
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."
Re:Hey, I have a -1 (Score:1)
Re:stop the worship.. (Score:2)
Misleading topic... again! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Misleading topic... again! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Misleading topic... again! (Score:2)
Go back to the homepage. (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Go back to the homepage. (Score:1)
Sorry, I no longer view articles from Zonk on the homepage. Now I get the stories worthy of being read, plus no dupes! Although my homepage is about 4 stories long, it gives me a chance to peruze the different categories.
Re:Go back to the homepage. (Score:1, Offtopic)
Whats a nice low 4-digit UID worth?
Re:Go back to the homepage. (Score:1)
Re:Go back to the homepage. (Score:1)
Re:Go back to the homepage. (Score:2)
No, but a few years ago they were (sort of like Beanie Babies used to be valuable and now go on eBay for below retail). Low-UID high-karma accounts are valuable to trolls, because it lets them post crap with a +1 bonus and trick people into reading it.
No, I didn't buy mine either.
Effects for Slashdot (Score:2)
Bad: Makes it less likely people will click on any links to Slashdot in the future.
Too bad...
Misleading headline as well! (Score:2)
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 _con
No. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:No. (Score:1)
Re:No. ??? (Score:2)
And to think I almost bought a plane ticket to attend this target practice.
Sample Songs Available in mp3 format! (Score:5, Informative)
Windows Rap [famouslastnerds.com]
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 [famouslastnerds.com]
Gates laments about his geeky past
Re:Sample Songs Available in mp3 format! (Score:1)
Re:Sample Songs Available in mp3 format! (Score:4, Informative)
I should have clarified:
Famous Last Nerds [famouslastnerds.com] is the official website of the duo who wrote the musical in question.
I found the mp3s I linked to on this page [famouslastnerds.com]
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.
Re:Sample Songs Available in mp3 format! (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.monzy.com/intro/drama_lyrics.html [monzy.com]
Re:Sample Songs Available in mp3 format! (Score:1)
No, just pied: http://www.bitstorm.org/gates/ [bitstorm.org]
Stars (Score:1)
Re:It's a really good musical! (Score:1, Offtopic)
Ha ha, very funny. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Ha ha, very funny. (Score:1, Troll)
I can't think of a good enough gay joke here.
Cameo? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cameo? (Score:1)
Re:Cameo? (Score:2)
Re:Cameo? (Score:2)
Re:Cameo? (Score:1)
Re:Hrm. (Score:1)
Even over "MS-Bob, the Play"?
wrong name.... (Score:2)
Re:wrong name.... (Score:2)
That's the name of the made for TV movie, the name of the original work is "Fire in the Valley". What are the /. nitpickers coming to?
Re:wrong name.... (Score:2)
Anyways, they nailed down the most historically important moments and did justice to the tech community.
Re:wrong name.... (Score:1)
Somebody suggested that the potrayed relationship between IBM, DOS, and Gates was not historically accurate.
Re:wrong name.... (Score:1)
The real article (Score:5, Informative)
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 [nytimes.com].
Re:The real article (Score:1)
Jordan also designs software for iPods, so don't worry! The writers know what real nerds are like.
Anything with a Queen influence? (Score:2)
"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 [lyricsfreak.com] and turn it into a cool parody. :)
I lack the imagination. :/
Re:Anything with a Queen influence? (Score:2, Funny)
http://plig.net/things/rhapsody.html [plig.net]
Re:Anything with a Queen influence? (Score:1)
Misleading headline (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Misleading headline (Score:1)
starring Mickey-Mouse and friends
...but will they really show up?
Re:Misleading headline (Score:1)
I wonder... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I wonder... (Score:1)
Re:I wonder... (Score:2)
Re:I wonder... (Score:1)
The topic may have been misleading... (Score:2, Funny)
Change the name of slashdot..... (Score:1)
I smell FUD (Score:1)
Re:I smell FUD (Score:1, Interesting)
MS-DOS was stolen from Apple?
More like MS wrote the BASIC interpreter that was pretty much the operating system of the original Apple II.
Talk about smelling FUD! It's coming from your own asshole I suspect.
Re:I smell FUD (Score:1)
Re:I smell FUD (Score:1)
Monsters Inc Musical (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Genre? (Score:2)
Are you sure that you mean the "crappy, inaccurate, made for TV genre" that Pirates OF Silicon Valley belongs to?
Re:Genre? (Score:2)
How to Succeed in Business... (Score:4, Funny)
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!
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"Dat pesky fouw-eyed wabbit!" (Score:1)
Mother says,, "It's A tony award winner" (Score:1)