Something Rotten Broadway Review: Shakespeare's rivals create the first musical
There is a musical number early in Something Rotten that thoroughly delivers what the show's title, cast, creative team, and poster art have promised — Monty Python subversive silliness; Mel Brooks coarse, extravagant entertainment; Forbidden Broadway parody. A desperate Elizabethan playwright named Nick Bottom (Brian d'Arcy James) wants to triumph over his rival, Shakespeare (Christian […] The post Somet…