Preview: Something Rotten at Community Center Theater

California Musical Theatre’s new production, Something Rotten, was awarded 10 Tony and 13 Drama Desk nominations when it opened on Broadway in 2015. Set in 1595, Something Rotten follows the Bottom brothers, Nick and Nigel, two playwrights who desperately want to write a hit play but are always upstaged by the rock star William Shakespeare. When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theater involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical.