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.
