Welcome to the Renaissance! Meet the New Company of SOMETHING ROTTEN!
By: Nicole Rosky Jul. 19, 2016
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Everything is changing at the St. James Theatre! As BroadwayWorld previously announced, the smash hit musical comedy Something Rotten! has recently welcomed a slew of new principal cast members for its second year on Broadway. The production now stars Will Chase (Shakespeare), Catherine Brunell (Portia), Josh Grisetti (Nigel Bottom) and Leslie Kritzer (Bea), who were welcomed to the Renaissance yesterday July 18, and Rob McClure (Nick Bottom), who joined the cast just last month.
Get to know the new cast below!
Will Chase (Shakespeare) recently starred as country music superstar Luke Wheeler on the ABC drama "Nashville." Broadway: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony, Outer Critics Nominations), Nice Work If You Can Get It, Rent, Miss Saigon, The Full Monty, Aida, Lennon, High Fidelity, The Story of My Life and Billy Elliot. Television: "Smash," "The Good Wife," "Blue Bloods," "Rescue Me," "Royal Pains," "Necessary Roughness," "White Collar," "Pan Am." Alum of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Rob McClure (Nick Bottom) received Tony, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations, won Theatre World and Clive Barnes awards for Chaplin: The Musical. Other Broadway: Noises Off, Honeymoon in Vegas, I'm Not Rappaport, Avenue Q. Helen Hayes nomination, Avenue Q national tour. Encores!: Where's Charley?, Irma la Douce. Regional: Ken Ludwig's A Comedy of Tenors, World Premiere, McCarter and Cleveland Playhouse. Two-time Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) winner. Best Actor for Recursion, Williamsburg Independent Film Festival, Queen's World Film Festival. TV: "Person of Interest," "Drew." Love to family and wife Maggie Lakis.
Josh Grisetti (Nigel Bottom). Broadway: It Shoulda Been You (Clarence Derwent Award winner; Drama Desk & OCC nominations), Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Off-Broadway: Enter Laughing (Theatre World Award winner; Drama Desk, OCC, Drama League and Lortel nominations), Rent, Peter and the Starcatcher, Red Eye of Love, Candida, After the Ball. Favorite Regional: My Paris (Long Wharf), Diner (Signature Theatre), Camelot (Kennedy Center), How to Succeed... (Los Angeles Ovation Award & Garland Award winner), Spamalot (Las Vegas). TV: "The Gates," "Nurse Jackie," "The Knights of Prosperity" and others. Film: The Immigrant, Revolutionary Road, The Namesake and others. Twitter/Instagram: @joshgrisetti
Leslie Kritzer (Bea) was most recently seen in The Roundabout Theater Company's revival of The Robber Bridegroom (Lucille Lortel Award, Drama League Award Nomination, Astaire Award Nomination). Broadway: Elf, Sondheim on Sondheim, A Catered Affair (Drama Desk Nomination), Legally Blonde (Clarence Derwent Award), Hairspray. Select Off-Broadway: Gigantic (Lucille Lortel Nomination), Nobody Loves You, On The Town ( City Center Encores!), Memory Show, The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Drama Desk Nomination), ROOMS a rock romance (OCC Nomination). Solo shows: Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches (Time Out NY Award), Beautiful Disaster. She is currently recurring on the HBO series "VINYL."
Catherine Brunell (Portia). Broadway: LES MISERABLES (Eponine), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Cora, Original Broadway Cast), Big River (revival with Deaf West), A Tale of Two Cities, Mary Poppins, ELF. National tours: LES MISERABLES, Big River (Mary Jane). Principal roles at Williamstown (Anything Goes), Old Globe (Paramour), Paper Mill (A Wonderful Life), MUNY (My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, Roman Holiday) Ford's Theatre (Big River). TV: NBC's "Sound of Music LIVE!" (Frau Zeller), "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (Jenny). Training: Northwestern University. NYC Marathoner.
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