Sharpenicity

SOMETHING ROTTEN!  is about  a couple of bad eggs making an omelette (a yoke about Hamlet?). If you didn’t think that was funny, not to worry,—the lines come so fast and furious in Something Rotten! — there’s a new one every minute.  The Bottom brothers, jealous of Shakespeare’s success, have to come up with a play that has everything that even the Bard hasn’t thought of.     Something Rotten! has been nominated for many awards but like the Bottom Brothers won few.   However that doesn’t stop the show.   If you really must have Tony award winning musicals,  their rousing “A Musical”  with clues given by Nostradamus as to what he sees in the future has a snippet of every one.   Shylock wants to invest in the show—but what to call him.  There are Puritans too, and of course there has to be love scenes and in the end a courtroom to decide what to do with all these characters.   Shakespeare is of course the ...