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‘Something Rotten!,’ an Over-the-Top Take on Shakespeare

‘Something Rotten!,’ an Over-the-Top Take on Shakespeare

By Ben Brantley for The New York Times, 22 April 2015 Unchecked enthusiasm is not always an asset in musical comedy, despite the genre’s reputation for wholesale peppiness. “Something Rotten!,” the rambunctious new show that opened on Wednesday night at the St. James Theater, dances dangerously on the line between tireless and tedious, and winds up collapsing into the second camp. If that […]

April 30, 2015 · 0 comments · Reviews
Something Rotten! Is a Musical for the Theater Addict

Something Rotten! Is a Musical for the Theater Addict

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 […]

April 19, 2015 · 0 comments · Popular Culture