Something Rotten! 2015 - Articles Page 1.8
Run Time:
Two hours and 20 minutes, with one intermission
Two hours and 20 minutes, with one intermission
Ages: 12+
Opened: April 22, 2015Closing: January 08, 2017
Something Rotten! - 2015 - Broadway History , Info & More
St. James Theatre (Broadway)
246 West 44th St. New York, NY
The time is Renaissance England, where two brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, are desperate to write a hit play. But how can they when the competition is the biggest star of the era, everyone's favorite bard: William Shakespeare? So they seek out the soothsayer Nostradamus. But not the Nostradamus, his nephew Thomas, who gives our heroes a completely original idea from the future - write a play with songs. And thus, the first ever musical is born. But not without much mayhem, madness, and musical mishaps. There is indeed Something Rotten! - and it will have audiences rolling in the aisles.
Something Rotten! - 2015 - Broadway Cast
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Theater Review: Something Rotten! Feels Fresh
8 / 10
Anything you've ever liked in a musical comedy (and a few things you haven't) are here, just waiting to sing-and-dance you into submission...It's total silliness, of course; Nicholaw keeps the lights bright, the sound loud, and the plot moving at a furious boil...As light as the material may be, it's no easy achievement, and quite a surprise coming from a group of writers with no experience on Broadway...For every freshman infelicity...there are a dozen smart lyrical jokes, nicely set on tunes that do only as much as they need to in order to keep the momentum going...a more fundamental problem -- the only one, really -- is too deeply entwined in what makes the show work to have ever unwound it. I refer to its relentlessness, the will to conquer at any cost, like Mel Brooks on steroids.
'Something Rotten!' opens on Broadway
8 / 10
Chock full of show tune references, theatrical puns and Shakespeare quotes, the show is a field day for drama nerds. Casey Nicholaw's direction and choreography constantly amp up the silliness and energy, and the cast of veterans is more than game...The bouncy score is crammed with production numbers and clever rhymes...As Shakespeare, Christian Borle is in prime stage animal form...he begins gyrating in skintight pants as he quotes his most famous lines...Yet he seems to have a viable adversary in nervous Nigel, played by Cariani as a sweet-voiced, endearing underdog...The sincere aspects of the musical are its weak points...One could also quibble with the show's reliance on parody and pastiche. But, then, you don't go to 'Something Rotten!' expecting something profound. With great comedic timing and expression, James is perfectly cast as the striver Nick.
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Something Rotten! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What are the songs in Something Rotten! and what's the order?
Welcome to the Renaissance
God, I Hate Shakespeare
Right Hand Man
God, I Hate Shakespeare (Reprise)
A Musical
The Black Death
I Love the Way
Will Power
Bottom's Gonna Be On Top
Welcome to the Renaissance (Reprise)
Hard To Be The Bard
It's Eggs!
We See The Light
To Thine Own Self
Right Hand Man (Reprise)
Something Rotten! / Make an Omelette
To Thine Own Self (Reprise)
Finale
God, I Hate Shakespeare
Right Hand Man
God, I Hate Shakespeare (Reprise)
A Musical
The Black Death
I Love the Way
Will Power
Bottom's Gonna Be On Top
Welcome to the Renaissance (Reprise)
Hard To Be The Bard
It's Eggs!
We See The Light
To Thine Own Self
Right Hand Man (Reprise)
Something Rotten! / Make an Omelette
To Thine Own Self (Reprise)
Finale
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