REVIEWS:

Exuberant 'Nerds' casts a web of digital delight
"Nerds, a new musical about the digital age, is an unrelenting hoot, and it sucks you in like a high-speed download...set to catchy music by the versatile composer Hal Goldberg with punch-line lyrics by Allen-Dutton and Weiner...The [show is] directed by Philip Wm. McKinley, who directed The Boy From Oz on Broadway, and who clearly has encouraged the cast to wring every drop of fun from this twisted history of computers, and of the two prime movers who made them a force that redefined everyday life...The entire cast plumbs the show for all it's worth, the sort of hard drive you'll never find inside that little tower at your desk." - Howard Shapiro, Philadelphia Inquirer
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"'The Producers' has 'Springtime for Hitler.' 'Glengarry Glen Ross' has Roma's Chinese-restaurant aria. In the new musical 'Nerds' the coup de grâce comes when the humorless stiff Bill Gates trades his pocket-protected Oxford shirt for leopard-print fur and a load of bling to lead a gangsta-rap number hawking his ubiquitous new operating system: "Windows/Now you heard about it/Gonna run your computer without it? I doubt it." - Rob Kendt, New York Times

"Fantastic, new musical...the detailed greatness of prop, costume, and scenery, let alone actor, song, and story, would be enough to truly delight...Nerds is a delightful show with a whole lot for the eye to take in. Real life nerds will love it, but so will everybody else." - Caren Beilin, Philly Theatre Review
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"Clever and funny...It's got everything you could look for in a musical: an exceptionally talented cast, fun choreography, a clear conflict, and a happy ending." - Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey, Phillyist.com

"It will amuse computer-friendly audiences and even elicit broad smiles from the computer-resistant." - David Finkle, TheatreMania.com

"Nerds is an enormous crowd-pleaser, and the show brims with energy, charm and young talent...winningly served by director Philip Wm. McKinley, his design team and a terrific cast." - David Anthony Fox, Philadelphia City Paper

"Such subversive humor, rife throughout the show, comes naturally to writers Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner (book and lyrics) and Hal Goldberg (music), who make this the funniest and most lovable collection of awkward anti-socialites this side of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. The writers even do the unthinkable and make this story about business, technology, deception, and (after a fashion) love accessible: Reducing Gates and Allen to sex-starved geniuses who could be vacationing from a John Hughes movie gives it an immediate, popular relevance to potential audiences." - Matthew Murray, TalkingBroadway.com


ARTICLES:

WHYY Marty Moss-Coane Radio Interview in Real Audio
Podcast with playwrights, Jordan Allen-Dutton and Erik Weiner

A Satire To Light Your Circuits
- Toby Zinman, Philadelphia Inquirer

Embrace Your Inner Geek
- Rachel Perry, PhillyPlay.com

2007: A (Cyber) Space Odyssey? - Interview with composer, Hal Goldberg
- Michael Elkin, Jewish Exponent

"Bill Gates" and "Steve Jobs" Sing in Nerds Musical Jan. 25-Feb. 25
- Playbill.com


BLOGS / AUDIENCE RESPONSE:

"I was riveted for the entire show. It moved along at a bounding pace, with a cast that put their whole hearts into the fun and spirit of the show. I'm not a theater critic, I don't know enough about theater. But I can recognize a fabulously good time. And watching Nerds was a fabulously good time. The whole audience felt the same, based on the laughter and enthusiastic clapping throughout the whole show. The energy and talent of the entire cast carried us all along." - Crossed Crocodiles
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"I finally saw ³Nerds² last nightŠthe musical about the rise of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. It was totally entertaining and inspiring." - BrandDame1
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"It was one of the funniest shows I have ever seen! This play was so good I hope it becomes popular enough to go to other cities cause I know a lot of people would love it if they had the chance to see it." - crow_vampscrypt
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