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Volker Schröder 🌎Sep 6, 2023

Springtime for Gutenberg?

" “Gutenberg!” directed by Alex Timbers and written by Scott Brown and Anthony King, is a farcical, largehearted duet about a pair of nursing home workers, Bud and Doug, bitten grievously by the Broadway bug. Using an inheritance and the proceeds from the sale of a home, they rent a Broadway theater for one night, hoping to find a producer for their deeply misguided and tragically under-researched original musical about Johannes Gutenberg […]
The show that emerged was never about the real Gutenberg — Bud and Doug have only the vaguest ideas of how movable type and medieval history work. Instead it was a loving lampoon of Broadway wishes and tropes."

Full article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/theater/broadway-gutenberg-josh-gad-andrew-rannells.html?unlocked_article_code=bCNVLZAMOtkZqB-lXawPd9iQwRKQUR_6RVxPKbK71ASX8geTYkkzOLtOp3K5uQp3g8CSSRzVQBLRioCn8_lfVdtpnA4r-SH2ObvfjxAAaM1aK92GODF02FjyT7GwIB_LlGLvWs3pd1lCtYfAxK8WbN32YTxIVGxRchhuYrqbMwauDLo4sDHNg4zOISUDf5_L5yCoFZN1CvEOvEc65xxxT7BoFsFaSkYmCjFllHcBphEssy4NKOXulYW_NUkkuDZE8fzdQW8em7BtgLV0OUx6ImTQ7huv83R33tFdqqXqWXZRk5uQ_oTzzlFLM9res6BhrD5OyJSu7cZDA50hkEfb93-6S6aCvDWaGr4O5Pc9QUz8zlSdcA&smid=url-share

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Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad Tackle Another Book (Not Mormon)

Twelve years after opening “The Book of Mormon,” the two actors — and good friends — return with “Gutenberg! The Musical!”

The New York Times