Something Rotten! NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (6,482)
See it if LOve musicals
Don't see it if you don't want to laugh and have a wonderful time
See it if you like truly well-done, clever musical comedy. I loved it.
Don't see it if you don't like musicals.
See it if You are a musical theater fan
Don't see it if You don't like musical theater
See it if You want a great, funny and entertaining night out on Broadway!
Don't see it if You do not have a sense of humor!
See it if This musical is just an evening of fun. It is very cleverly written and the performers were terrific
Don't see it if If you are a theater fan you will get all of the "inside " jokes. If not,get someone to explain them to you later. Don't miss this show
See it if you love Shakespeare and musical theatre. Truly, if you love those two things, this show is a gift.
Don't see it if you don't know anything about Shakespeare or musical theatre as you will probably be very confused.
See it if you enjoy clever theatre
Don't see it if you do not appreciate musical theatre
See it if You are a broadway gerk
Don't see it if You hate musicals
Critic Reviews (42)
"Its greatest achievement is combining all these elements and transcending parody because of how openly it wears its heart on its sleeve, it’s a show by musical lovers made to please other musical lovers...A blissfully entertaining show that doesn't pretend to contain anything particularly original."
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"A delightfully irreverent mash-up of Broadway musicals and Shakespeare that should keep audiences laughing for years to come...The love stories are slight. But director Casey Nicholaw compensates. He’s an expert at staging broad comedy without letting his cast resort to hamminess…It’s the writers, all making their Broadway debuts, who emerge as the biggest stars, imbuing 'Something Rotten!' with smart-alecky glee."
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"By the end of the show, despite the cleverness of its concept, 'Something Rotten' as executed simply hasn't added up to a completely satisfying musical. Its choreography seems too repetitive, its rock score sounds too generic, its tone is confused – as often peppy or sappy as subversive or satiric – and its plot is all over the place: Too much of what unfolds during its 150-minute running time feels like filler."
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"Casey Nicholaw pulls out every trick in the theatrical book to keep you from laughing so hard and smiling so much you’re likely to overlook the show’s flaws until you’ve left the theater...yet, for all of its high points, something is missing from the show – a real heart."
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"Mildly amusing and oddly anodyne...It’s hard not to wish that the show’s creators had the set the bar and the flame just a little higher. Something Rotten! wants to be uncouth and impertinent a la The Book of Mormon, but it’s much too nice for that...It’s never offensive, but it’s never very exciting either."
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"The new musical 'Something Rotten!' offers something rare, as well as something recycled. The something rare is the opportunity for no fewer than three leading men to astonish us in entirely different ways...“Something Rotten!” turns into something recycled. “Omelette” tells the story of “Hamlet” by riffing on “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Les Miserables,” “Pippin,” “Annie,” and any other number of tuners."
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"Something's rotten on the stage of the St. James, and it smells like a hit...'Something Rotten!' is larded with overripe performances, layer upon layer of schmaltz, and everything in the kitchen sink except a battle of flying cream pies...It hits the target again and again, but as the evening progresses they serve up fewer and fewer bull's eyes."
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"Though often grossly (and unabashedly) overplayed, overall the show’s on-the-nose wit is disarmingly funny and likely to charm...Many of the musical’s basest laughs would be plainly eye-rolling (or some even more so than they already are) were it not for director Casey Nicholaw’s deft comedic hand coupled with the cast’s timing and finesse."
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