Theater Review - Something Rotten
We've finally come to the last show that I got a chance to see in my time in New York, so today I want to take you through the proud loser of the 2015 Tony Award, Something Rotten . (No seriously, it was nominated this year, but when it lost to Fun Home , the show ran an ad of other famous shows that also never won "Best Musical" saying they were happy to be among such good company.) Something Rotten takes place in the time of William Shakespeare, the Renaissance where everything is new and exciting and plays are the hit of the town. There we meet a pair of brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom who can't seem to get a hit out or get out from the shadow of the famous Shakespeare. This doesn't bother Nigel so much as he's a big fan of The Bard's work, but it upsets Nick to know end. He gets an entire song called "God, I Hate Shakespeare" that is about that exact thing. In an attempt to get a leg up on the competition, Nick goes to see a soothsayer who...