The Blobs

A MATH MUSICAL

an exploration of binary and hexadecimal conversion

created by George Nobl

music and lyrics by William Jones

directed by Yehuda Duenyas

 

June 2, 2002

chashama 135

135 West 42nd Street
New York, NY

ONE DAY ONLY

11am preview $5 / 3pm Matinee $10

8pm Gala Performance $15

 

Master wizard of math ceremonies George Nobl spins a tale of an astronaut learning to communicate with happy mouthless blobs from outer space. How can this teach us math? For George Nobl this is the only way. Imagine being stranded on a distant planet with blobs who communicate through numbers.  What are you gonna do, except learn how to convert binary and hexadecimal numerical systems. Don’t understand? Then come and see this mathemusical.

 

The Blobs is filled with such mathemusical hits like: Gloom Doom Math, Base Two Blues, Hexadecimal Doo-Wop and Terminal Tangle Tango.  You’ll laugh, tap your toes and have a great time while learning to convert numerical systems.

 

AND there’s a Intermission Contest with extraordinary prizes!!

 

THIS MAY BE THE FIRST TIME YOU LAUGH WHILE LEARNING MATH.

 

“Professor Nobl has nothing up his sleeve except a quirky effort to promote the fun of math”

--New York Times Feb 7, 2002

 

George Nobl (1902-2014) was a Hungarian-born adjunct math professor at Long Island City’s DeVry Institute, a technical college, and at the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising, a small Midtown design college teaching algebra and precalculus at both. Educated at Columbia University, he was a sculptor before he turned to his second passion- teaching math.