Original Cast Recording - Gutenberg! The Musical!
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Artist: Original Cast RecordingEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2009-11-03
Music Label: P.S. Classics
Soundtracks:
- Act 1. OK! Here we go!
- Act 1. Prologue / Schlimmer!
- Act 1. Friendly... but also suspicious
- Act 1. I Can't Read
- Act 1. Did Helvetica actually exist?
- Act 1. Haunted German Wood
- Act 1. The Press Song
- Act 1. I Can't Read (reprise)
- Act 1. A giant tree... of goodness.
- Act 1. Biscuits!
- Act 1. This show is not about biscuits!
- Act 1. What's the Word
- Act 1. Helvetica is crying in her bucket...
- Act 1. Stop the Press
- Act 1. Now anything can happen!
- Act 1. Tomorrow Is Tonight
- Act 2. Here we go again! The second act!
- Act 2. Second Prologue
- Act 2. Words, Words, Words
- Act 2. Monk with Me
- Act 2. (Might as Well) Go to Hell
- Act 2. Like a million drunks...
- Act 2. Festival!
- Act 2. Finale
- Act 2. Gutenberg! The Megamix (recorded in Bud's apartment)
Music reviews of Gutenberg! The Musical!
Music Review: Racist musical, unfunny, with cliche music - and it's narrated
Rating: 1 Stars
Maybe a production would save this turkey but I didn't laugh once and only found a bit of the music inventive. Mostly it's tired and racist.
It announces itself as a spoof - on the Holocaust (I kid you not) where we are supposed to hate Germans - all Germans, Germans of the 13th century onwards. Ha ha hate the Germans. Imagine someone reversing this and writing a musical that is suppose to be about hating Jews, all Jews, Jews from the 13th century onwards. It would be closed in days but mostly it would never get made. Mel Brooks spoofs Nazis, and German's of the Nazi era - but an entire people from the 1400s on? It's just racist.
The plot is poor. Other than hating Germans, it's hard to find a central conflict. People are stupid because they can't read. Ha ha. They can't read because books are scarce. Isn't that a funny joke? Oh, he has a wench -who borders on the misogynist and destroys the printing press- The writers call her a "stupid Jew" - see, they seem to be saying, we're not racist because we are using racist slurs. Stomach turning.
And the whole thing is de-constructed. Yup we all know how funny that is, telling you what you are supposed to notice and feel and think. And narrated. Yup, a narrated musical. They can't do it with the writing so they narrate it. All the way through. Ha. ha. h_ And they even run ads for themselves in it, just in case you are not alienated enough. Screw the characters - it's about self promotion. And what is with the English accents?
Pass. Do not buy. Let it die.
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