The run closed January 1, 2017
- Opened
- 2015
- Closed
- January 1, 2017
- Performances
- 742
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 25th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it44 named
Brian D Arcy James
Michael James Scott
Linda Griffin
David Hibbard
Jenny Hill
Stacey Todd Holt
Aaron Kaburick
Austin Lesch
Beth Johnson Nicely
Aleks Pevec
Eric Sciotto
Brian Shepard
Chelsea Morgan Stock
Ryan Vandenboom
Bud Weber
Catherine Brunell
Josh Grisetti
Tracee Beazer
Callie Carter
Max Clayton
Leah Hofmann
Tari Kelly
Brian Ogilvie
Hayley Podschun
Brendon Stimson
Kevin Worley
19 of these 44 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 25 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters11 roles recorded
Brian d'Arcy James Nick Bottom
John Cariani Nigel Bottom
Christian Borle William Shakespeare
Heidi Blickenstaff Bea Bottom
Kate Reinders Portia
Brad Oscar Thomas Nostradamus
Brooks Ashmanskas Brother Jeremiah
Gerry Vichi Shylock
Peter Bartlett Lord Clapham
Patrick John Moran Master of the Justice
Michael James Scott Minstrel
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Casey Nicholaw
- Choreographer
- Casey Nicholaw
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Something Rotten! is a musical comedy with a book by John O'Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick and music and lyrics by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick. Set in 1595, the story follows the Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel, who struggle to find success in the theatrical world as they compete with the wild popularity of their contemporary William Shakespeare. Something Rotten! opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre on April 22, 2015, where it played for 708 performances. It was nominated for ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and won one for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Christian Borle). Tours and international productions have followed.
- Your next show was supposed to be Something Rotten! until they decided that the character needed to get pregnant. Here S To the Ladies Conversations With More of the Great Eddie Shapiro Oxford U, p. 147
- Thomas Nostradamus doesn’t have quite the abilities of his illustrious forebears, so when predicting that musicals will come into being, he can only see and hear bits and pieces of what’s to come. They were enough for Casey Nicholaw to make a marvelous mosaic of musical theater history. The Book of Broadway Musical Debates Disputes and Peter Filichia Rowman Littlefi, p. 216
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Something Rotten! at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.