Eggcellent News! Edward Hibbert Enlisted for Something Rotten! on Broadway

Edward Hibbert will be welcomed to the Renaissance from November 10! The Broadway vet is set to take over for Peter Bartlett as Lord Clapham/Master of Justice in Something Rotten!, which is currently playing at the St. James Theatre. Bartlett will depart the production on November 8.

Hibbert was most recently seen on Broadway in It Shoulda Been You; he has also appeared in Mrs. Warren's Profession, Curtains, The Drowsy Chaperone, Noises Off, The Green Bird, Me and My Girl and Alice in Wonderland. West End credits include The Mystery of Irma Vep, Lend Me a Tenor and Twelfth Night. Hibbert’s TV and film resume credits include The Prestige, Taking Woodstock, Everyone Says I Love You, The First Wives Club, The Paper and Frasier.

Directed by Casey Nicholaw, Something Rotten! features a score by Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick and a book by Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell. Set in the 1590s, the show follows brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom, who are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rockstar known as “The Bard." 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. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self...and all that jazz.

Something Rotten! currently stars Brian d’Arcy James, Christian Borle, John Cariani, Heidi Blickenstaff, Brad Oscar, Kate Reinders, Brooks Ashmanskas, Peter Bartlett, Gerry Vichi and Michael James Scott.