[ Featuring Josh Gad ]
[DOUG SIMON, spoken]
Okay, Here we go!
[BUD DAVENPORT, spoken]
Oh my God, I'm so excited...
[DOUG, spoken]
Welcome to Gutenberg!
[BUD, spoken]
Gutenberg: The Musical!
[DOUG, spoken]
My name is Mr. Doug Simon, and I am from Nutley, New Jersey
[BUD, spoken]
And I am Mr. Bud Davenport, also hailing from Nutley, New Jersey
[DOUG, spoken]
And we have written... a musical!
[BUD laughs]
[DOUG, spoken]
This... is what people like me and Bud call... a cast recording
[BUD, spoken]
Yes!
[DOUG, spoken]
Except... we don't have a cast
[BUD, spoken]
No! It's just me and Doug
[DOUG, spoken]
We're gonna perform all the roles, sing all the songs, and give you somе help to understand the potеntial of what we have written
[BUD, spoken]
I think the key word here is "potential"
[DOUG, spoken]
I also like the word "help," because, with any luck, we are going to take this show... to Broadway!
[BUD, spoken]
Our nation's capital!
[DOUG, spoken]
Yes!
[BUD, spoken]
Listening to this recording, as we speak, are some very big Broadway producers
[DOUG, spoken]
If you're hearing my voice and you are not a Broadway producer, we need you to find one and make them listen!
[BUD, spoken]
Tell them to listen and produce our show!
[DOUG, spoken]
Yes!
[BUD, spoken]
Please!
[DOUG, spoken]
Now, you're probably sitting there, thinking to yourself, "Okay, so you wrote a show--but what is it about?"
[BUD, spoken]
I don't know, Doug, why don't you tell us?
[DOUG, spoken]
Alright, I will! It's about Johann Gutenberg
[BUD, spoken]
Who's he?
[DOUG, spoken]
He is the guy who invented the printing press...
[BUD, spoken]
... and then printed up a bunch of copies of The Bible
[DOUG, spoken]
Yes, but what else did he do?
[BUD, spoken]
Well we did some research to find out
[DOUG, spoken]
Google! We typed in, "Johann Gutenberg," and printed out the first thing that came up, so... read it, Bud!
[BUD, spoken]
Okay... um, "Gutenberg, comma Johann...German printer...born around the year 1400, detailed records of his life and work are scant."
[DOUG, spoken]
Scant? Clearly, research wasn't gonna help us
[BUD, spoken]
So we took a different approach--historical fiction!
[DOUG, spoken]
Yes, but what is historical fiction?
[BUD, spoken]
It's fiction... that's true!
[DOUG, spoken]
Now, just before we get started, we want to take a second to talk to you about something pretty serious. Every important musical has to tackle at least one incredibly serious issue
[BUD, spoken]
Like racism...
[DOUG, spoken]
Homophobia...
[BUD, spoken]
Or a man with half a face
[DOUG, spoken]
Our show is set in Germany, so our serious issue is... Nazis
[BUD, spoken]
History, and every Indiana Jones film except for "Crystal Skull", tells us that Nazis are... not cool
[DOUG, spoken]
No, they are hateful and they are ignorant, and that ignorance is in this show
[BUD, whispering]
It has to be
[DOUG, spoken]
Because it makes our show... important
[BUD & DOUG, spoken]
Gutenberg: The Musical!