‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ review: Gad and Rannells have almost too much fun
nypost.com“Book of Mormon” duo now star in “Gutenberg! The Musical!,” a hyperactive two-hander that opened Thursday night at the James Earl Jones Theatre, and their old-school chops and boisterous chemistry are why the cute off-Broadway gem has improbably wound up, as Gad’s Bud accurately puts it, “on the weird side of 7th Avenue.”“Gutenberg!” is on the weird side, all right.The appealingly nerdy show by Scott Brown and Anthony King has two equally wild identities.
Call it “Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde.” First, it’s a backer’s audition, a barebones sampling of a work for potential producers and investors, of a big-cast new musical called “Gutenberg!” about the German inventor of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg.Tough sell, right?
When this little show premiered off-Broadway in 2005, that pitch alone was hilarious. A musical about the Bible guy? Couldn’t happen.
But times they are a-changin’. Now that there’s a Tony Award-winning hit about the life of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton two blocks away, you think, “Sure.
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