Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten. Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick, and successful screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Something Rotten was lauded by audience members and critics alike, receiving several Best Musical nominations and hailed by Time Out New York as "the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years".
Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as "The Bard." When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz.
Year | Category | |
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2015 | Best Musical |
Videos
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From Darkness to LIght
The Church of the Covenant (3/9 - 3/9) | |
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The Recursion of a Moth
Boston Playwrights' Theatre (2/27 - 3/9) | |
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The Fig Tree, and The Phoenix, and The Desire to Be Reborn
Boston Playwrights' Theatre (2/20 - 3/9) | |
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Ada and the Engine
Castle Hill Productions (2/27 - 3/9) | |
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Where We Belong
The Umbrella Arts Center (2/28 - 3/23) | |
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The Wedding Singer
The Company Theatre (7/10 - 7/12) | |
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Don't Eat the Mangos
Huntington Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA (3/26 - 4/27) | |
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Tinseltown Inventor™: The Most Beautiful Woman in the World, Hedy Lamarr
Duxbury Free Library (3/15 - 3/15) | |
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Ali Siddiq
Boch Center Shubert Theatre (5/30 - 5/30) | |
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A Christmas Carol
North Shore Music Theatre (12/4 - 12/21) | |
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