Something Rotten Presented by Raise the Barre

On the Cripe Stage….

The time is 1595, England. William Shakespeare is London’s hottest playwright—much to the chagrin of his unsuccessful rival, Nick Bottom. With his marriage on the rocks and his career in jeopardy, Nick needs his next play to be a sure-fire hit, so he pays the Soothsayer Nostradamus to predict the next big money-making trend in theater. Nostradamus divines that the future of theater will involve tap dancing, belting, and jazz hands…and soon enough Nick and his brother Nigel are writing the world’s first musical. But the brothers soon disagree about how to execute this new form. Should they follow Nostradamus’ confounding prediction as closely as possible? Or should they stay true to their own artistic impulses? And when Nigel falls in love with Portia (a young Puritan) and Shakespeare himself tries to steal the Bottoms’ ideas, hilarity, mayhem (and more dancing, belting, and jazz hands) ensue!