Photo Flash: Gutenberg! The Musical!

Gutenberg! The Musical!, the award-winning hit that previously played the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival, began previews at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street) on November 21st and will open on December 3rd for a strictly-limited Off-Broadway engagement through December 31st.  

Written by Anthony King and Scott Brown (winners of the 2006 NYMF Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Writing – Book) and starring />Christopher Fitzgerald/> and />Jeremy Shamos/> (winners of the 2006 NYMF Award for Outstanding Individual Performances), Gutenberg! The Musical! is directed by Alex Timbers.  "In the two-man musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights, Bud Davenport and Doug Simon, perform a backers' audition for their new project - a great big musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg. They hope that one of the producers in the audience will give them a Broadway contract - fulfilling their ill-advised dreams.  With an unending supply of charm, enthusiasm and idiocy, and accompanied by Larry, their pianist, Bud and Doug sing all the songs and play all the parts in their crass historical epic, using only baseball caps to differentiate between the show's 30 characters," as press notes describe the show. 

Fitzgerald has been seen on Broadway in Wicked and Amour, while Shamos has been seen on New York stages in Reckless, The Rivals and Miss Witherspoon, among others.

Tickets for Gutenberg! The Musical! are $35.00 and are available via www.ticketcentral.com at 212-279-4200.  Tickets for 59E59 Members are $24.50.  For more information about 59E59, please visit www.59e59.org. For Group Sales (20% off for groups of 10 or more) please call: The Splinter Group (general management) at 212-354-8833.  For more information, visit www.gutenbergthemusical.com.

Photos by James Ambler

Christopher Fitzgerald and Jeremy Shamos

Jeremy Shamos and Christopher Fitzgerald

 
Christopher Fitzgerald and Jeremy Shamos