One of my favorite musicals of recent vintage is Something Rotten, which is probably not now playing anywhere you can see it, at least not in a polished professional production. But it's too good not to come back…somewhere…sometime. Below is a musical video that was made to promote it when it was on Broadway in 2015.
Christian Borle, who has become a star on the Great White Way, was playing William Shakespeare, who in this show was an egomaniacal, drunken plagiarist. I'm not saying this is what the real Will Shakespeare was and I'm not saying it's not. But in Something Rotten and in this video of one of the show's best songs, he is…