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Something Rotten!

Shows · Something Rotten!

In 1590s London, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are struggling playwrights jealous of the rock-star fame of William Shakespeare. When a soothsayer tells them that the future of theatre is musicals, they attempt to write the world's first musical — which turns out to be a hilariously mangled version of Hamlet called Omelette.

Opened
2015
Performances
742
Type
Musical
Era
Contemporary
Music: Wayne Kirkpatrick, Karey KirkpatrickLyrics: Wayne Kirkpatrick, Karey KirkpatrickBook: Karey Kirkpatrick, John O'Farrell

Productions1 on Broadway

2015 Original Theatre not recorded. · Casey Nicholaw 742 performances

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Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Something Rotten! matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

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In the literature2 passages

Your next show was supposed to be Something Rotten! until they decided that the character needed to get pregnant. book:here-s-to-the-ladies-conversations-with-more-of-the-great-eddie-shapiro-oxford-u#p147

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. book:the-book-of-broadway-musical-debates-disputes-and-peter-filichia-rowman-littlefi#p216

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