‘Something Rotten!’ blasts Shakespeare with a Broadway musical sensibility

What if the world of theater in William Shakespeare’s time were the same as the profit-driven, heavily commercial professional theater of today?
“Something Rotten!” explores that premise – within the framework, of course, of a musical comedy. The show took Broadway by surprise in spring of 2015, running 742 performances.
And on Jan. 17 of this year, less than three weeks after its Broadway closing on New Year’s Day, the show’s U.S. national tour got underway i