Gutenberg! The Musical!

Musical Theatre,Comedy

Strawberry Theatre Workshop

Venue: Erickson Theatre Off Broadway
1524 Harvard Ave
Capitol Hill, Seattle
1-800-838-3006
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1st Event: Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Opening Night: Thursday, September 4, 2008
Closes: Saturday, September 27, 2008

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Gutenberg! The Musical is the absurdly funny twoman spoof of a fullscale Broadway musical about Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press.

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Price range: $10 - $25
25 or under: $10
Seniors: $10
TPS: $10

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WATCH THE TRAILER: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY7LJ9LC4NQ

Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, so Doug Simon and Bud Davenport wrote a musical about him. They don't have a cast, a budget, or a producer... but they have a dream!

Doug and Bud are two dolts who have set-out to musicalize quite possibly the least musical event in history--the invention of the printing press. As the third piece of Strawberry Theatre Workshop's Biograph series, Gutenberg! The Musical! is a disastrously inaccurate, hopelessly over-ambitious, and hilariously incompetent backers' audition for their new project. It's the true story of Gutenberg, an evil Monk, and a beautiful wench named Helvetica... and Doug and Bud are gonna perform the crap out of it for Broadway producers that they think are in the audience.

The critically acclaimed musical comedy by Scott Brown and Anthony King, Gutenberg! The Musical! will make its Seattle premiere at the Erickson Theatre Off Broadway, September 4-27, 2008.

Playing the writers with the unending supply of enthusiasm and misguided passions are local favorites Troy Fischnaller and MJ Sieber, who sing all the songs and play all the parts in their crass historical epic. Don Darryl Rivera accompanies on piano.

"A SMASHING SUCCESS! Who knew a musical about the inventor of the printing press could have SO MANY LAUGHS?" (The New York Times)

"It seems that Monty Python's whole troupe has taken possession of two New York naifs, aspiring musical-theatre writers Bud and Doug, in this INSPIRED parody of Broadway bombast." (The New Yorker)

Cast

Troy Fischnaller: Doug
MJ Sieber: Bud
Don Darryl Rivera: Charles

Company

Greg Carter: Director
Zac Eckstein: Stage Manager
Jill Beasley: Lighting Designer
Sarah Harlett: Costume Designer

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The Stranger
Review by Paul Constant
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
I don\'t recall the last time I left a theater with a face that ached from laughing way too much.
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Seattle Weekly
Review by Kevin Phinney
Thursday, September 11, 2008
After its summer success with Leni, Strawberry Theatre Workshop again makes mounting a hit look easy ...
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Seattle PI
Review by Gianni Truzzi
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The satire by Anthony King and Scott Brown (and ably directed here by Greg Carter) is certainly silly fun, but it also offers a knowing deconstruction
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Seattlest.com
Review by Michael van Baker
Monday, September 8, 2008
We laughed like a booze-addled hyena for much of the night, with some startled expletives thrown in when things got...strange
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