Playbill: Former NASA astronaut and the first woman of color in space, Dr. Mae Jemison; scientist, educator, and television host Bill Nye; and astrophysicist, author, and Hayden Planetarium Director Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson will be co-producers of the forthcoming new Broadway musical Galileo, scheduled to begin previews November 10 at the Shubert Theatre prior to an official opening December 6.
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I think this show is going to be such an interesting intersection between science and art. And as a BXA student here at CMU, that is very exciting to me. I feel like there are so many great stories about random scientists and mathematicians that no one ever talks about for some reason, maybe because people think math and science are boring, but there's some crazy stuff going on. Math duels were a real thing, where is my 10 math duel commandments song? I need someone to get on that. I think Galileo is an excellent choice for a show. Its a crazy drama where he went against everything society believed, and went against the church, because he wanted answers to questions that no one else was really asking. I really enjoy that Jemison talks about how both science and art are ways to impact the world around us, and I hope this musical is as good and catchy as the bill nye the science guy song.
Wow! This is great! Not only because it’s finally a musical that isn’t based on a movie or something, but it’s something that the people who are producing it are truly passionate about! Like it’s pretty well known that a broadway musical is not a very profitable business endeavor right now, so I’m successfully convinced that this is a labor of love. I especially was touched by the acknowledgement that dance – like science – is a way of understanding the world. That shows that there is true passion in the development of the musical, which I think has been missing in the past ten years or so. As a side note, I was pleasantly surprised that this article included a quote about the actual development of the musical and the inspiration from it. Usually these Playbill articles are just list of the people working on it, which I am not nearly as interested in.
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