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Broadway’s ‘Something Rotten’ gets reinvented by Canada’s Stratford Festival — and it’s hysterical
the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, an easy trip for New Yorkers.And before this year, one would have had to search far and wide to find “Something Rotten” on any theater lover’s list of favorites.Talk about “all’s well that ends well” — the show of Shakespearean shenanigans has a sitcom’s supply of belly laughs. Really, it’s a north-of-the-border reinvention.What the Broadway musical needed, it turns out, was to schlep 500 miles away from 42nd Street to a 71-year-old festival that made its reputation with stagings of the Bard’s plays.Since the mid-aughts, Stratford’s musicals, earthier than ours, have gotten better and better.
