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
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Something Rotten!
‘Something Rotten!’ review: Brian d’Arcy James leads new musical comedy that riffs on Shakespeare and Broadway
8 / 10
The show is the brainchild of Broadway rookies...who wrote the breezy, hummable score that goes down easy from the start...Karey and John O'Farrell wrote the book, which, fittingly, reminds us that all the world's a stage...Even if you don't get every allusion, the staging by choreographer and director Casey Nicholaw...is consistently fun. And the formula works -- mostly. Some tunes and dance pieces recur. So laughs dry up as 'Something Rotten!' becomes a deju vu-sical...The cast is another big plus...John Cariani is solid as Nick's brother...Christian Borle...brings Jagger-like swagger to his plum role of Shakespeare...And as Nick, a guy who makes bad choices, James makes all the right moves, sings with panache and tap dances, too. He's a charmer who makes it look easy. When all is said and sung, James is something outstanding -- the show's living exclamation point.
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.
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Something Rotten! FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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
Something Rotten! History
Other Productions of Something Rotten!
| 2015 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
| 2017 | US Tour |
National Tour US Tour |
Something Rotten! - 2015 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Featured Actor in a Musical | Christian Borle |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Brian d'Arcy James |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | John O'Farrell |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Karey Kirkpatrick |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Casey Nicholaw |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Casey Nicholaw |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Christian Borle |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | Brad Oscar |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Wayne Kirkpatrick |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lyrics | Karey Kirkpatrick |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Musical | Something Rotten! |
| 2015 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Orchestrations | Larry Hochman |
| 2015 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Christian Borle |
| 2015 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Brian d'Arcy James |
| 2015 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical | Something Rotten! |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Brian d'Arcy James |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Musical | Christian Borle |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Book of a Musical | Something Rotten! |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Choreography | Casey Nicholaw |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Costume Design | Gregg Barnes |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Musical | Casey Nicholaw |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical | John Cariani |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical | Heidi Blickenstaff |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Jeff Croiter |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding New Broadway Musical | Something Rotten! |
| 2015 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Set Design | Scott Pask |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | Karey Kirkpatrick |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Book of a Musical | John O'Farrell |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Choreography | Casey Nicholaw |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Gregg Barnes |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Musical | Casey Nicholaw |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Timothy Laczynski |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Kyodo Tokyo Inc. |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Wendy Federman |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Barbara Freitag |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | LAMS Productions |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Winkler/DeSimone |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Kevin McCollum |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jujamcyn Theaters |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | JAM Theatricals |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Robert Greenblatt |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Dan Markley |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Harris/Karmazin |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Morris Berchard |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Ronald Frankel |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Jerry Frankel |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Mastro/Goodman |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | CMC |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Broadway Global Ventures |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Musical | Something Rotten! |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Orchestrations | Larry Hochman |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Karey Kirkpatrick |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre | Wayne Kirkpatrick |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Christian Borle |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical | Brad Oscar |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | Brian d'Arcy James |
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