Musical about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates cancels Broadway run

The Broadway run of Nerds — the musical "dot comedy" about the rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates — has been canceled after a major investor dropped out. The news is the latest setback for the production, whose final form has been ten years in the making, after an early version played at the New York Musical Theater Festival in 2005. The Broadway show was intended to be an upgrade on that iteration, adding on-stage holograms, and allowing the audience to vote for the show's ending through a dedicated app.

News of the postponement comes just three weeks before the show was scheduled to start its Broadway run, and the show was already in rehearsal. Producer Carl Levin confirmed the cancelation in a statement. "On behalf of my...

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