Something Rotten! is Something Hilarious!

On stage now at Roger Rocka’s Dinner Theater is Good Company Players’ rollicking production of Something Rotten!
Something Rotten! played on Broadway for 2 years and 742 performances. Here’s a sampling of reactions from people who saw it:
  • “Wait wait wait I can’t stop laughing. One of the funniest plays I have ever seen.”
  • “This has to be the best show around… never laughed so much in a theatre! Definite must see.”
  • “Something Rotten! is Something Hilarious! My daughter and I agreed that we never laughed so hard.”
  • “It was witty, it was funny – I laughed harder than I have laughed in a long time.”
  • “I’ve seen this show 4 times. I am a Broadway fanatic, and this is the only show I have ever wanted to see that many times.”
  • “The most fun that I have ever had at a musical. Just saw the show for the 17th time.”
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.”  Desperate for a hit, the elder brother seeks out a soothsayer who foretells a future filled with wildly successful but as-yet-unheard-of ‘musicals’. Armed with the somewhat faulty prediction that Shakespeare’s greatest work will involve something about ‘ham’ and Danish, the brothers set to work to write Omelette: The Musical — and the fun is just starting!

Something Rotten! is a hilarious mash-up of sixteenth-century Shakespeare and twenty-first-century Broadway.
(The Broadway cast included former GCP member Heidi Blickenstaff as Nick’s stalwart wife, Bea, a precocious feminist.)
Time Out New York hailed Something Rotten! as “the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years”.  Rated PG-13.