Biography of famous personalities like bill gates and Steve jobs haunt many screenwriters and Directors for a long time. It comes to mind a wonderful picture of “the Pirates of Silicon valley”, which tells us about the formation of Apple and about the relationship between young Steve and bill. The Broadway production of the story of the confrontation between these two brilliant minds I see something relatively new and interesting.
A musical about an intellectual war between two icons of the IT industry has been called Nerds (“Nerds” — eng.) and in a fairly light, comedic way to tell a familiar story to all of us. To make the setting more interesting for the audience, the authors of the musical put various high-tech innovations. For example, on stage, the audience can see the real hologram, and before the start of the musical, anyone can download from the App Store and Google Play the official app, which will allow him to interact with the presentation and other audience. The details of this interaction, however, are still kept in secret.
Premiere of “Nerds” is scheduled for April 21, 2016, and it will take place on the stage of the Broadway theater Longacre in new York. If you are in USA, you can pre-order your tickets at this link. The price varies from 39 to 147 dollars depending on the location of the seats in the hall. According to the official information, starting March 31, it is planned to hold several test screenings of the musical, to get to which can only the lucky fans of Broadway musicals.