Something Rotten! premiered on the Muni stage as a boisterous, splashy and somewhat inappropriate parody that gleefully skewers both Shakespearean comedy and the musical theater genre itself.

"It's an upbeat show that's enjoyable for all theater fans," said director Connor McNamara. "It throws an homage to classic productions and intermingles that with Shakespeare."

This mash-up of 16th-century merrie olde England and 21st-century Broadway tells the tale of Nick and Nigel Bottom, playwright brothers who are desperately seeking theatrical fame. Unfortunately, the egomaniac Will Shakespeare doesn't leave much room for competition. In a desperate gamble to write a hit show, Nick pays a seer, Thomas Nostradamus, to prophesize Shakespeare's next successful play. The somewhat mixed-up fortune

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