Gutenberg! The Musical!
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SHOW INFORMATION

Average of 5 stars from 15 ratings.

CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 21, 2007
Closed May 6, 2007

Playing at
Actors' Playhouse Theatre

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Running Time:
1hr. 40min.
(includes 1 intermission)

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Romance! Danger! Even Despair! Not to mention a Printing Press! Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1450, so Bud and Doug wrote a musical about him. They don't have a cast, a budget, or a producer... but they have a dream! Gutenberg! The Musical! is Bud and Doug's backers audition: a tuneful, tasteless triumph, celebrating the monstrous success of their idiocy.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Actors' Playhouse Theatre
100 7th Ave S
New York, NY 10014

This newly renovated, intimate playhouse has been presenting shows in the West Village since Off-Broadway theatre began. Featured shows include Torch Song Trilogy, Whoop-De-Doo, Naked Boys Singing, Making Porn, Duet!, and The Marijuana-logues. [...] Read More

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

There's a lot to be learned at
Gutenberg! The Musical!, but those lessons have nothing to do with the German inventor who refined and popularized the printing press. What you can discover from this two-act, 90-minute tuner -- especially if you're thinking of writing one yourself -- is a series of "theater don'ts."

Don't think that just because you're being tasteless, you're being funny. Don't think that taking an unpromising subject for a musical and then putting "The Musical" in the title is anything less than a thoroughly depleted show-biz gag. (Do think it's an immediate tip-off that there are writers present totally devoid of inspiration.) Don't think self-referential musicals are t[...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Dec 4, 2006