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Something Rotten! (Theatre)
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It's The '90s! The 1590s, that is. Shakespeare is in his prime and is beloved by everyone in London. Everyone, that is, except Nick Bottom, a playwright who just doesn't understand Shakespeare's appeal and wishes he had his fame. Desperate to write a good play, he goes to see a soothsayer named Nostradamus (no, not that Nostradamus, his nephew Thomas) to find out what the future of theatre holds. Nostradamus tells him that in the future, theatre will involve singing and dancing. So, Nick and his brother/writing partner Nigel set out to write the world's first musical.The show premiered on Broadway in 2015, featuring Brian D'arcy James as Nick, John Cariani as Nigel, Christian Borle as Shakespeare, and Brad Oscar as Nostradamus. Heidi Blickenstaff plays Nick's wife, Bea, and Kate Reinders plays Nigel's love interest, Portia. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: "I Love the Way" contains references to mastrubation and orgasms. This exchange Nigel and Portia share between each other: | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: When Nick and the troupe rehearse Nigel's script for Richard II, Nick ecstatically exclaims that he's starting to think this is the Bottom Brother's first hit. Cue Lord Clapham coming in to tell them that Shakespeare is doing Richard II instead. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: An inversion, as Shakespeare is Nick's main antagonist and sings with a rock tenor voice. Although, he's not evil, just a douche. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: During "Something Rotten! / Make an Omelette." | |
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Green-Eyed Monster | |
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Green-Eyed Monster: In his reprise of "God, I Hate Shakespeare", Nick admits that his hatred of the Bard is mostly because Shakespeare is everything Nick wishes he could be. | |
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Named Like My Name | |
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Named Like My Name: Thomas Nostradamus is not the Nostradamus, although he is his nephew. Nick Bottom, his troupe members (minus Nigel), Portia, Bea(trice) and Shylock all share names with characters from Shakespeare's works. Shylock even mentions Shakespeare having promised to use him as a character, though the portrayal was far from flattering. Shakespeare's own mole name, "Toby Belch" is shared by a drunken, boorish man from Twelfth Night. Shakespeare also promises to name a character after the judge, Falstaff. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Nigel bluntly tells Nick that a play about eggs isn't a good idea, but Nick is too focused on beating Shakespeare to listen. Unfortunately, by the time Nick realizes Nigel is right, they're being prosecuted for plagiarism. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: Portia quotes from Psalms when she tells her father of her decision to join Nigel in the colonies. | |
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Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times | |
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Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: Nigel has seen Romeo and Juliet SIX times. Portia's seen it EIGHT! | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Omelet the Musical ends up becoming this, full of cockney chimney sweeps, nuns, Russian fiddlers, and references to songs and places that don't exist yet. | |
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Musical Number Annoyance | |
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Musical Number Annoyance: Lampshaded, Parodied, Discussed and Conversed when Nick visits soothsayer Thomas Nostradamus to find out what will make his failing theatrical productions a smash hit. Nostradamus peers into the future and discovers musical theater, which kicks off a song-and-dance number during which an incredulous Nick describes exactly why he thinks actors breaking into song-and-dance numbers during a show is the stupidest thing he's ever heard of: | |
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Quarreling Song | |
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Quarreling Song: "To Thine Own Self" is one for Nick and Nigel. | |
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The Ingenue | |
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The Ingenue: Portia, who has her not so innocent moments, but never by her own intention. | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Thomas Nostradamus's prediction that "Omelette" will be Shakespeare's greatest play indirectly leads to Shakespeare stealing Nigel's work and re-purposing it for Hamlet. | |
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It Will Never Catch On | |
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It Will Never Catch On: Nick feels this way about musicals at the start of "A Musical," but comes around by the end of the number. Later, when they're having creative differences, Nick says this to Nigel: "We need a hit, not some audience-repelling death-play about your descent into madness!" | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: To ensure that Nick won't listen to his sensible brother, Shakespeare while posing as Toby says that Hamlet will need more of a breakfast theme. Shakespeare goes out of his way to make sure Nick and his whole acting troupe are publicly humiliated after stealing his play back. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: Conversed. Nostradamus admits that dance breaks in musicals don't advance the plot or character, but people do it "because it's entertaining!" | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: "Hamlet" isn't known as one of the great plays of Nick Bottom, is it? And it definitely isn't known as "Omelette: The Musical". | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: On the one hand, The Bottoms, Shylock and Thomas Nostradamus are banished to America due to the failure of Nick's scheme... and, as a result, Shakespeare gets away with counter-plagiarizing from Nigel's script. On the other hand, it's a new start of sorts, and it's implied that this is exactly what lays the groundwork for the eventual success of the musical as a medium. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Nick and the troupe's production of "The Black Death" is a tasteless show that turns the whole Black Death into a big joke, showing how Nick needs Nigel to write his plays. | |
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Cue Card Pause | |
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Cue Card Pause: In "Something Rotten"/"Make an Omelette." | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Other than Shakespeare, none of the characters speak with English accents. | |
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GreyAndGreyMorality | |
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Grey-and-Grey Morality: Nick Bottom really wants to be better than Shakespeare. His solution is to use a soothsayer to plagiarize Shakespeare's greatest work; the only thing that redeems him is that he accidentally writes an original music about omelettes and that he chose to do this because his back was up against the wall and he needed to support his poor and growing family. Shakespeare in the meantime also has no issue plagiarizing, but is rightly offended that Nick isn't planning to put the work in and decides the answer is to steal the play they're working on and turn it into his greatest work. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: Nick dreams of Shakespeare bowing down to him and admitting he's better, which he then not so graciously responds to with mockery. In actuality though, the bard has just as little respect for Nick as Nick does for him and this never changes. However, Shakespeare does come to see Nigel as an equal, though for the sake of his plans he can't bring himself to admit how brilliant his writing is, only showing him some proper respect once he's gotten his potential rival out of the picture. | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Nick is kind of a jerk, but he loves his family and only wants to provide for them. | |
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Be Yourself | |
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Be Yourself: Or in other words... "To thine own self... beeeeee truuuue..." | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: After Portia is locked the church tower by Brother Jeremiah, where she will stay until she is sent to Scotland, Nigel goes through this, singing about not knowing what makes living good when life is so cruel and his destiny "is to be fortune's fool". | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: After Nigel refuses to help Nick write "Omelette: The Musical" since he doesn't think it feels right, Nick yells this at him which temporarily hurts their relationship. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
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Mistaken for Gay: Happens to Nick and Bea twice, while Bea is disguised as a man. | |
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Women Are Wiser | |
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Women Are Wiser: Bea has way more common sense than Nick, which Nigel lampshades. | |
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"I Am Great!" Song | |
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"I Am Great!" Song: "Will Power" is one for Shakespeare, bragging unapologetically about how amazing he is to a cheering crowd. | |
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Enemy Mine | |
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Enemy Mine: Shakespeare is responsible for getting Nick, Nigel, and all the other actors on trial, but he also helps get them off. | |
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Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_6070670f | type |
Complete-the-Quote Title | |
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Complete-the-Quote Title: Appropriately enough, the title is taken from "Hamlet"; Something's Rotten in the state of Denmark. | |
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Gag Penis | |
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Gag Penis: In the 2017 production at the Orpheum, practically every single male actor wore an enormous codpiece. Shakespeare in general always has a very sizable one. | |
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Those Wacky Nazis | |
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Those Wacky Nazis: Nostradamus envisions the Nazis playing a large role in a future musical (The Sound of Music or Cabaret) but he doesn't know whether they are good guys or bad guys (though he does get the impression that it's really important to get that right). They eventually decide that they are good guys. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Nick and Nigel are exiled for the crime of plagiarizing Shakespeare. Don't steal from the bard. | |
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Big Brother Worship | |
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Big Brother Worship: Nigel greatly admires his older brother, Nick, and considers him one of his heroes alongside Shakespeare. However, during the production of "Omelet", doubts begin to arise which lead to them having a falling out. By the end of the play, they manage to reconcile. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: At one point, Shakespeare asks if the Bottoms' next play will be a tragedy, a comedy, or a tragic attempt at comedy. | |
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"I Hate" Song | |
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"I Hate" Song: Nick's song "God, I Hate Shakespeare" is devoted to how much he hates his fellow playwright Shakespeare. It starts off with Nick ranting about all the ways he finds Shakespeare and his plays boring and pretentious, eventually devolving into Nick screaming that he loathes every single single thing about Shakespeare. However, a later reprise of the song has Nick admit that he's jealous of Shakespeare's success, with Nick even saying that he'd do anything to gain even a bit of Shakespeare's noteriety. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Nick's song "God, I Hate Shakespeare" is basically "The Reason Shakespeare Sucks: The Musical Number". Nick says that Shakespeare's plays are boring and pretentious, Shakespeare himself is someone who pretends to be humble but really has a massive ego, and that he finds the hype around Shakespeare to be annoying. | |
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Politically Correct History | |
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Politically Correct History: Averted. Shylock, although he is, unlike his namesake in The Merchant of Venice, a "really, really nice Jew," is hated by everyone, and is forced into the rather unsavory profession of moneylending because it's the only job Jews are allowed to have. Truth in Television, as Anti-Semitism was prevalent during this period. Also averted in regards to the sexism of the period: Nick's acting troupe is composed entirely of men, even for the female roles (again, Truth in Television), and he refuses Bea's offer help him by joining the troupe because women aren't allowed to be stage actors. Bea later expresses frustration when she tries to get a job to support their family and finds that all the "good jobs" only allow men (though she finds a way around this). | |
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Almost Kiss | |
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Almost Kiss: At one point in the Broadway production, Shakespeare starts to lean in towards Nigel's face almost like he's about to plant one on his lips, but then moves aside at the last second to whisper in his ear instead. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Portia convinces Nigel to support Nick on opening night. Nigel does, after having shown Hamlet to a disguised Shakespeare. It's possible if Nigel hadn't supported Nick, then he wouldn't be prosecuted for plagiarism. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Near the end, Brother Jeremiah is on court explaining why he is trying to have Nick, Nigel, Shylock, and Nostradmus beheaded, and he says they have committed "blasphemy, treason, employment of a Jew, witchcraft, and the provocative parading of eggs." | |
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Entertainingly Wrong | |
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Entertainingly Wrong: The whole thing gets started by Thomas mistaking Shakespeare's next hit "Hamlet" for "Omelette". | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Hamminess, thy name is Shakespeare. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: Nigel, especially when he's nervous which is... most of the time. | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
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Right for the Wrong Reasons: Shakespeare actually had a strong justification to steal Nick's new show, as it's just a (horribly warped) plagiarization of Shakespeare's as of year unwritten greatest hit. And even when Nigel actually writes the real thing through real artistic merit, Shakespeare taking his work is still just stealing what was originally supposed to be his. However, while this theft can be justified, you can only forgive it so much since Shakespeare's attempts at plagiarizing extend beyond it, while Nick's is just a one time instance that just so happens to allow a thief to be in the right this time. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Also averted in regards to the sexism of the period: Nick's acting troupe is composed entirely of men, even for the female roles (again, Truth in Television), and he refuses Bea's offer help him by joining the troupe because women aren't allowed to be stage actors. Bea later expresses frustration when she tries to get a job to support their family and finds that all the "good jobs" only allow men (though she finds a way around this). | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: Nick Bottom does want to plagiarize one of the world's greatest playwrights rather than put in the work to write something original. He does so with good intentions and only when he believes he has no other choice, but the show makes it quite clear that he's still in the wrong. | |
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It Was His Sled | |
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It Was His Sledinvoked: Parodied - Nick mentions that Romeo and Juliet kill themselves at the end, absolutely devastating Clapham who hadn't seen the (at the time) new play yet. | |
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Battle Rapping | |
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Battle Rapping: During the number 'Bottom's Gonna Be On Top', Nick and Shakespeare do a tap dance while boasting about their accomplishments and insulting each other, in a combination of this trope and a Dance-Off. | |
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Reference Overdosed | |
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Reference Overdosed: On top of the frequent references to Shakespeare's works and other cultural staples of the Renaissance, once Nostradamus discovers the musical, the script and score constantly reference musicals, most prominently in "A Musical" and "Make an Omelette." | |
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The Perils of Being the Best | |
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The Perils of Being the Best: Shakespeare's song, "Hard To Be The Bard", shows that despite being considered the best playwright in England, upholding his reputation is a challenge he faces on a daily basis. | |
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Bathos | |
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Bathos: The second act does this by juxtaposing Nick's vision (a goofy play about breakfast) with Nigel's vision (the "audience-repelling death play" that lays the groundwork for Hamlet proper). "Something Rotten," for instance, starts with the Yorick — sorry, Yolk — scene and an ominous song about the state of the kingdom, then switches over to an upbeat number about finding silver linings only for Eggbert to be horrified at the sight of his dead father... who continues cheerfully singing. | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: Nigel has a recurring theme that he uses whenever he monologues during a song; it shows up in "God, I Hate Shakespeare," "We See The Light" and "To Thine Own Self." Every time Nick and Nigel write a musical, the first song we hear from it builds off the same melody. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: Shakespeare steals Nigel's work and passes it off as his own, receiving even more success and acclaim as a result. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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Imagine Spot: "Bottom's Gonna Be On Top" revolves around Nick's fantasies of runaway success, including Shakespeare openly referring to him as an equal. "We See The Light" is one of these for Portia, who's hoping Nigel will be able to win over her family. | |
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Sweet Polly Oliver | |
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Sweet Polly Oliver: Bea disguises herself as a man so she can get a job, and later disguises herself as a lawyer so she can defend Nick from being sentenced to death. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: The show doesn't shy away from acknowledging the rampant anti-Semitism in the Elizabethan era. Shylock even hopes that the play Shakespeare plans to write about him will make people see him as a "really, really, nice Jew." | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Shakespeare was once a member of Nick and Nigel’s troupe, only for Nick to kick him out because he was so annoying. Nick then suggested Shakespeare take up writing… | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Shakespeare gets offended when Nick Bottom plans to plagiarize his future work using a soothsayer. He justifies stealing Nigel's work in that technically Shakespeare wrote it first according to the soothsayer, so he's only stealing from himself. Which, in a Circular Logic sense, is technically true. Shakespeare is all too happy to remove the Bottom brothers from his local competition, but he objects to them getting executed, instead merely relocating them, allowing his competitors to live and continue writing, just far away from him and his audiences. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: In "A Musical", Nick scoffs at the entire idea of a musical...by singing about it. | |
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It's All About Me | |
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It's All About Me: Shakespeare could not exemplify this trope more. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Not exactly, but Brother Jerimiah suddenly exclaiming "God damn it!" after Portia tells him she's going with Nigel to the New World is treated like one. | |
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Mistaken for Masturbating | |
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Mistaken for Masturbating: After they spend time together, Nigel says he has something to show Portia, before reaching into his codpiece and fiddling around, leaving her uncomfortable. Turns out he was just going to show her a letter from Shakespeare that said he read his sonnet. | |
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Ambiguously Bi | |
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Ambiguously Bi: Shakespeare can be quite flirtatious with the ladies, and has boatloads of Ho Yay with both of the Bottom brothers. Worth noting, several historians theorize that the real life bard was indeed gay. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Show Within a Show: The protagonist attempts to write and put on a show about eggs. | |
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Why Didn't I Think of That? | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_c36d8929 | comment |
Why Didn't I Think of That?: Shakespeare says this when his spies report that Nick is using a soothsayer to find out what Shakespeare's greatest work is. | |
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Pride | |
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Pride: Possibly Nick's fatal flaw. He refuses to accept his wife's help, and gets blinded by his own ego during the Second Act. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Dozens and dozens of them. Just try to find a musical that isn't referenced by this show. If you want to test someone’s knowledge of musicals, play them “A Musical� and see how many references they spotted. | |
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Minor Character, Major Song | |
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Minor Character, Major Song: Nostradamus is a supporting character who steals the show with "A Musical". The Minstrel who leads the opening number "Welcome to the Renaissance". | |
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Anti-Villain | |
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Anti-Villain: Shakespeare would be a standard Jerkass except that it's established that he does put in the work for writing his plays and poetry. What's more, he has a right to be angry on finding out his rival is trying to plagiarize his greatest work. The part that makes him a villain is taking Nigel's work on Hamlet and getting Nick prosecuted for plagiarism. | |
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That Came Out Wrong | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_d1affec1 | comment |
That Came Out Wrong: Almost every sentence from Brother Jeremiah. His daughter Portia seems to have inherited this trait. | |
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Shakespeare in Fiction | |
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Shakespeare in Fiction: Portrayed as something of a rock star. The show also plays with the authorship question a bit — he very much exists, and he's written original work, but during the story he goes through a period of writer's block that drives him to attempt plagiarism. And eventually succeed in doing so. | |
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…But He Sounds Handsome | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_d8afec40 | comment |
…But He Sounds Handsome: When Bea appears at court dressed as a lawyer, she declares, "Nick Bottom's wife, who is a loving, kind, compassionate, patient woman," then turns to the court clerk and says, "Make sure you write all that down!" | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "It's the Black Death, Black Death, whoo!" which is basically everyone singing about the Black Death in a jaunty way compared to the soundtrack's gloomy instrumentation. | |
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Gasp! | |
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Gasp!: Everyone gasps every time Nick openly says he hates Shakespeare in the aptly titled song "God, I Hate Shakespeare". | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Nigel and Portia, by virtue of the latter's Puritan upbringing. Ultimately subverted; she runs off to America with the Bottoms when they get banished. | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Shakespeare joins Nick's troupe as an actor named "Toby Belch" in order to find out about more about Nick's apparently-brilliant new play. The name also becomes a great pun during the climax of the show, when Toby reveals himself to be Shakespeare in the middle of opening night of Omelette. | |
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Gospel Choirs Are Just Better | |
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Gospel Choirs Are Just Better: The Puritans in "We See The Light." | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Bea arriving at the court just in time to save Nick from being sentenced to beheading. | |
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Geeky Turn-On | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_eeaee38c | comment |
Geeky Turn-On: Portia and Nigel fall almost instantly in love over their shared passion for poetry. | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_f12d9d83 | comment |
Promotion to Parent: Nick, from the age of fourteen, had to take care of Nigel after their mother died. | |
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Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_f2d29e14 | type |
Evil Brit | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_f2d29e14 | comment |
Evil Brit: Shakespeare isn't evil, but he's quite clearly a dick, and the only character who speaks with an English accent. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: Bea knows Nick has stolen from their money box against her wishes, but - despite being peeved - doesn't confront him about this as she trusts in his good character. The original version in previews actually had her find this out later and react in anger, though she still sided with and helped him out then as well. | |
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Insult Backfire | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_f6f2ff1 | comment |
Insult Backfire: Nick irritably telling Nigel that his melodramatic gushing is making him sound like Shakespeare only flatters him. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_fe64d5a1 | comment |
Evil Is Petty: While not evil, Shakespeare's a Jerkass who decides to name one of his dumbest characters after his rival Nick Bottom, even after he's already humiliated and beaten his far less successful fellow playwright. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
Something Rotten! (Theatre) / int_ff7f34c5 | comment |
Pet the Dog: At the end, Shakespeare helps save the lives of Nick and his entire troupe after getting them endangered in the first place. While he's called out for getting them out of his way in doing so, he notes that letting them die would've got him the same results. | |
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