Something Rotten

StoryBook Theatre and the Shakespeare Company unite to bring you “the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years” (Time Out New York)! 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”, aka the one and only (and so pompous) William Shakespeare! A visit to the local soothsayer foretells that to best the “greatest writer England has ever known” these brothers must embrace future of theatre - which involves singing, dancing and acting... at the same time? Seizing the absurdity of this concept, the Bottom Brothers set out to write the world’s very first musical - OMELETTE! Amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, tormented by the promise of Shakespeare’s next brilliant play, it becomes clear that “nothing’s as amazing as a musical”. This hilarious cast of characters may just realize that coming out on the top means being true to thine own self… and all that jazz.

CAST:

• Nick Bottom Joel Schaefer
• Nigel Bottom Christopher Sherwood
• Nostradamus Hal Kerbes
• Shakespeare Tory Doctor
• Bea Bottom Gianna Read-Skelton
• Portia Taylor Rae Steedman
• Brother Jeremiah Joey Gruszecki
• Minstrel Nicholas Chamberlain
• Tom Snout Liam Brett
• Robin Starveling Steven Morton
• Peter Quince Thomas Zima
• Francis Flute Nikko Angelo Hinayo
• Snug Jayden Durksen
• Shylock/Announcer/Nostradamus Understudy Ben Jaquish
• Lord Clapham Anja Darien
• Ensemble: Liberty Laferriere, Shayla Fiveland, Julia Bleichert, Jackie Thurber, Alisha Brown, Jocelyn Leiver

STAGE & PRODUCTION TEAM:

• TSC Artistic Producer Richard Beaune
• Director and SBT Artistic Producer JP Thibodeau
• Musical Director Ethan Vasquez Taylor
• Choreographer Greg Pember
• Stage Manager Cale Thompson
• Assistant Stage Manager Niamh McCallion
• Assistant Stage Manager Ryan Thompson
• Property Master Danelle White
• Set Designer Terry Gunvordahl
• Set Assistant DeNeane Osmond
• Master Set Builder Josh Bailey
• Costume Designer Melissa Mitchell Boychuk
• Costume Assistant Darcie Howe
• Hair Designer Cat Bentley
• Makeup Designer Melody Kielek
• Intimacy Director Anastasia St. Amand
• Sound Design and Programming Ross Wilson
• Sound Operator Aretha Smith
• Sound Operator Paul Davies
• Lighting Designer Kris Mish
• Lighting Operator Jo Ackerman
• Associate Artistic Producer Nickolas Bishop
• Marketing Director & Graphic Design Jennifer Merio
• Marketing Coordinator & Graphic Design Emma Luit
• Show Photography Tim Nguyen