"Ok! Here We Go!"

Okay, here we go!

Woo! This is exciting

Welcome to "Gutenberg!"

"Gutenberg!: The Musical!"

I'm Mr. Doug Simon

I am Mr. Bud Davenport

We've written an exciting new show
And tonight, we want to present it for the first time

But hopefully
Not for the last time!

No
With any luck, we're hoping to take our show to Broadway!

And as many of you already know
There are with us in the audience tonight
Some very big Broadway producers
So, tell them to produce our show!

Now (Yes)
Writing a musical is not easy!
(Hats off to you, Elton John!)
But we did it!
I wrote what we call the book of the musical

And I wrote the music
And the lyrics -
Well, we wrote those together!

Now, you're probably sitting there
And thinking to yourself
"Okay, so you wrote a musical
But what is it about?"

I don't know, Doug
Why don't you tell us?

All right, I will!
It's about Johannes Gutenberg!
(Who's he?)
Well, he's the guy who invented the printing press!
(And then printed up a bunch of copies of the Bible)

Now, what you're going to see tonight
Is what we call a "reading" of a musical
That means there's no set
No costumes, only a few props
And no cast!
(It's just me and Doug!)
Right!

Now
Before we get started
We do want to take a second to talk about something pretty serious
And that's the Holocaust

Every important musical
Has to tackle at least one incredibly serious issue
(Like racism)
Or Vietnam
(Or a man with half a face)
Yes

Our show is set in Germany
So our serious issue is the Holocaust
(Germans hate Jews)
Well, not all of them
Most of them!

Maybe not anymore
But they used to

That hatred
Is in this show

It has to be

Because it makes our show important
And now -

Gutenberg! The musical!