By Jim Kelly for Vanity Fair, May 2015

Betting on a new Broadway musical is like betting on a racehorse: the shrewd gambler knows nothing guarantees a winner but great bloodlines help. So, there is high expectation for Something Rotten!, a musical comedy about the very first musical comedy, set for the purposes of this showbiz fable in the 1590s, when all the world was a stage for William Shakespeare. The director and choreographer is Casey Nicholaw, who did the same for Aladdin and co-directed The Book of Mormon, while producer Kevin McCollum has won three Tonys for best musical (In the Heights, Avenue Q, and Rent).

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