Something Rotten

Folger Shakespeare Library: Shakespeare Unlimited

Folger Shakespeare Library

Arts

4.8 • 878 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, a new musical called "Something Rotten!" opened on Broadway. The plot: Two brothers living in England in 1595 have had their playwriting careers upended by the arrival of a new guy from Stratford upon Avon. Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick, brothers who co-wrote the music and lyrics for Something Rotten!, are our guests on this episode of Shakespeare Unlimited. They are interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published March 7, 2017. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode, “Play On,” was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster and Esther Ferington. Esther French is the web producer. We had help from Cameron Adkins at WPLN in Nashville and Brian Allison at the Marketplace studios in Los Angeles.

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0:00.0	Here's something you never thought you would hear in a Folger Shakespeare Library podcast.
0:04.0	Oh God, I hate Shakespeare.
0:07.0	That's right, I said it.
0:08.0	No! I do. I hate Shakespeare.
0:10.0	Why?
0:11.0	Don't worry. It's not what you think.
0:13.0	Don't hate...
0:14.0	From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited.
0:25.2	I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folgers director.
0:28.1	This podcast is called Play On.
0:31.0	In 2015, a new musical opened on Broadway.
0:34.7	The plot, two brothers living in England in 1595 have had their playwriting careers
0:40.1	upended by the arrival of a new guy from Stratford upon Avon. They consult a soothsayer named
0:47.4	Thomas Nostradamus, who peers into the future and gives them the solution to getting a professional
0:53.4	leg up. What the hell are musicals? It solution to getting a professional leg up.
0:55.7	What the hell are musicals?
1:01.6	It appears to be a play where the dialogue stops and the plot is conveyed through song.
1:02.5	Through song?
1:03.4	Yes.
1:09.6	So an actor is saying his lines and then out of nowhere he just starts singing?
1:10.5	Yes.
1:14.7	Well, that is the stupidest thing that I have ever heard.
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