Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten! Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick, and successful screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Something Rotten! has been lauded by audience members and critics alike, receiving several Best Musical nominations and hailed by Time Out New York as “the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years.”

Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as "The Bard." When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing, and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self — and all that jazz!

Something Rotten! started its road to Broadway as a shared idea between brothers Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick. They joined book writer John O’Farrell to complete a set of songs that were presented in 2010 to producer Kevin McCollum (whose previous Broadway credits as a producer included The Drowsy Chaperone and Rent). A workshop, with Casey Nicholaw attached to direct, was presented in 2014.

The workshop participants initially planned a pre-Broadway production at Seattle’s 5^th Avenue Theatre. However, producer McCollum expedited the process when the St. James Theatre on Broadway became available. Fresh off the positive reviews from the workshop, the show bypassed the tryout production in Seattle and went straight to Broadway.

After a month of previews, Something Rotten! officially opened at the St. James Theatre on April 22, 2015. The show received 10 Tony Award nominations that season – including Best Musical – with Christian Borle winning Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role In A Musical for his portrayal of Shakespeare. After 708 performances, Something Rotten! closed on Jan. 1, 2017.

A national tour of the show began in Schenectady, New York, on Jan. 10, 2017, and went on to play nearly 50 cities across America (including a three-week stop at the Connor Palace Theatre in Cleveland). This tour closed in Providence, Rhode Island, in May of 2018. A second, non-Equity tour opened in September of that same year, and it played in additional U.S. cities – including two nights at Akron’s E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall – before closing in Seoul, Korea, in June 2019.

Rachael Armbruster (Bea/Shakespeare US)
Grace Bailey (Minstrel US)
Samantha Balaj-Teolis
Jordan Benjamin (Dance Captain)
Noah Casino (Nick Bottom US)
Ozzie Casino
Elijah Chase
Rick Cordaro
Benjamin DeCapua
Ella Embry
Oleg Faynshteyn
Adam Fischer (Nigel US)
Benjamin Gonzalez
Allison Harris
Paul Means
Samaria Murry
William Noussias
Maxwell Rees
Carson Reitz
Simeon Schmitt
Kara Simpson
Allison Thomas
Catie Votaw (Portia US)
Tong Xu
Bethany Yamaner
Malak Zaman

Thank you to Tommy Bruno and Andrew James of 91.3 The Summit, Laura Niehaus,  and Inda Blatch-Geib

Act One 

Welcome to the Renaissance - Minstrel and Company 
God, I Hate Shakespeare - Nick, Nigel, and The Troupe 
Right Hand Man - Bea and Nick 
God, I Hate Shakespeare (Reprise) Nick 
A Musical - Nostradamus, Nick, and Company 
The Black Death - The Troupe 
I Love the Way - Portia and Nigel 
Will Power - Shakespeare and Company 
Bottom's Gonna Be on Top - Nick and Company

Act Two

Welcome to the Renaissance (Reprise) - Minstrel and Company 
Hard to Be the Bard - Shakespeare and Company 
It's Eggs! - Nick and The Troupe 
We See the Light - Portia, Nigel, Brother Jeremiah, Nick, and Company 
To Thine Own Self - Nigel, Nick, Shakespeare, and The Troupe 
Right Hand Man (Reprise) - Bea 
Something Rotten! / Make an Omelette - Nick and Company 
To Thine Own Self (Reprise) - Nick 
Finale - Company

Ron Hazelett - Music Director/Keyboards
Toussaint English - Bass
John Ebner - Keyboards
George Dean - Guitar
Dylan Gomez - Drums

Set Construction Crew
James Boyd, Jr.
Chris Capron
Dale Gilbert
Kathy Kohl
Richard Morris, Jr.
Laura Niehaus
Kodee Williams 

Lighting Crew 
Emma Boring
Jack-Anthony Ina
Richard Morris, Jr. 
Wittman Sullivan
Van Wornkey

Costume Construction Crew
Beth Desberg
Ellen Hunton
Millie Keyser
Lindy Lincicome
Jasen Smith

Wardrobe
Jerald Beard
Makenna Bird 
Jasen Smith

Costume Inventory Crew
Jenny Banker
Shannon Brown
Jack Judge

Front-of-House
Jenny Banker
Mary Lu Barbour
Steve Brown
Ksan Cooper
Scott Davis
Douglas Fidler
Patti Gabb
Tim Gabb
Tonya Gulley
Noah Knapp
Kate Lombardo
De Shawn Millender
Marci Paolucci
Katherine Peck
Bessie Raines
Mega Rankin
Bradley  Rito
Katie Rito
Eric Steckel
Verna Vander Kooi
Becky Zaman

Backstage
Makenna Bird
Ken Hardman
Kyle Means
Irene Storm
Sean Vollman
Sara Vollman