Shakespeare meets showbiz outrageous

musical comedy that closes Season 108.

— Matt Doyle, Jacob Dickey, Bryonha Marie, Elizabeth Teeter, Lara Teeter, Adam Heller, Jen Cody, Gary Glasgow and DeMarius R. Copes l star in Something Rotten! when the acclaimed musical comedy makes its Muny premiere next week in Forest Park.

Something Rotten!, a metatheatrical mashup of 16th-century Shakespeare and 21st-century Broadway, runs Aug. 17-23 and brings the 108th Muny season to a close.

The show’s creative team is led by Rob Ruggiero (director), Parker Esse (choreographer) and Anne Shuttlesworth (music director/conductor).

“Something Rotten! is a delicious exit strategy for our season,” said Muny Artistic Director & Executive Producer Mike Isaacson. “Contradicting the title, it’s outrageously funny and a great way to send us all up and out of Season 108.”

   Cast Bios

MATT DOYLE (Nick Bottom) won the 2022 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for best featured actor in a musical for his performance as Jamie in Broadway’s revival of Company. Most recently, he starred as The Playwright in the world premiere of When Playwrights Kill at the Huntington Theatre, as well as the iconic Jay Gatsby in South Korea’s production of The Great Gatsby. Broadway credits include Tony-winning musicals The Book of Mormon and Spring Awakening; Tony-winning best play War Horse; and the revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Matt made his UK stage debut as Frank Sinatra in Sinatra The Musical. Off-Broadway credits include Conversations With Mother, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd and Brooklynite

JACOB DICKEY (Shakespeare) was last seen on Broadway opposite Bernadette Peters in Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends. His other Broadway credits include Aladdin and the Tony-winning revival of Company. Off-Broadway: Emojiland. First national tours: Aladdin, Company. Regional: Guys and Dolls (STC); Old Friends (CTG); Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (PCLO); Prince of Egypt (Tuacahn). Concerts: Frozen in Concert (Taipei Performing Arts Center), Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony. TV: Gossip Girl, The Other Two, The First Lady, Blue Bloods, Partner Track.

BRYONHA MARIE (Bea) returns to The Muny. Her credits here include Sister Act (Deloris) and The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess). She can be seen in the Broadway revival of Damn Yankees, set to open in spring 2027. Other Broadway: 2025 revival of Our Town, Prince of Broadway, Book of Mormon, After Midnight, Porgy and Bess and the revival of Ragtime. Off-Broadway and NYC: A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, Promenade (City Center), Candide (Carnegie Hall), NY Philharmonic’s Show Boat and Sweeney Todd, Ragtime at Lincoln Center. National tour: Falsettos. Bryonha has been seen in concert with the New York Philharmonic and symphonies across the country, including the SLSO.

ELIZABETH TEETER (Portia) Most recently seen as Heather McNamara in the hit off-Broadway revival of Heathers The Musical. Broadway: Lydia in Beetlejuice; Betty in The Crucible (with Saoirse Ronan); Young Elizabeth in The Audience (with Helen Mirren); Jane Banks in Mary Poppins. Off-Broadway: Lily in The Secret Life of Bees (Audelco nomination). Recent regional: Anna Grace in the original new musical Hard Road to Heaven (Bucks County Playhouse), Liesl in The Sound of Music (Ogunquit Playhouse, The Muny); Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (TWSTL, St. Louis Theater Circle Award). Other regional: The Muny, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, Variety Theater and more. TV/film: Leaving (SAG short), guest on The Last O.G. (TBS).

LARA TEETER (Brother Jeremiah) Muny: Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood), The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow), Oklahoma! (Will Parker), Hairspray (Wilbur Turnblad), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), The Little Mermaid (Scuttle). Broadway: On Your Toes (Junior Dolan, Tony Award nomination), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Caleb), Happy New Year (Vixon), Pirates of Penzance (Dance Captain, Swing). National tours: Oklahoma! (Will Parker), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Caleb), Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood), The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow). Professor, head of musical theatre at Webster University’s Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts.

ADAM HELLER (Shylock) returns to The Muny after playing Claude & Others in Come From Away, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Herbie (opposite Beth Leavel) in Gypsy, Benjamin Franklin in 1776 and Amos Hart in Chicago (St. Louis Theater Circle Award). Other St. Louis appearances: Follies (Buddy Plummer) and Brighton Beach Memoirs (Jack Jerome), both at The Rep. He has appeared in eight Broadway shows, including Some Like It Hot; It Shoulda Been You; Elf; Caroline, or Change; Victor/Victoria; and Les Misérables.

JEN CODY (Nostradamus) returns for her ninth Muny show. Most recently, she flew as Scuttle in Disney’s The Little Mermaid and won the coveted Kevin Kline Award for Hello, Dolly! Jen starred in the original Broadway companies of Shrek, Pajama Game (revival), Taboo, Urinetown and Seussical, as well as A Christmas Story, Beauty and the Beast, Cats, Grease, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, Judith of Bethulia, Ibsen’s Ghost, Cleopatra, and Henry and Mudge (Drama League nomination). GARY

GLASGOW (Lord Clapham/Master of the Justice) is returning for his 44th Muny show. Favorite productions include 1776, Titanic, Singin’ in the Rain, Newsies and Seussical. Work with other St. Louis companies includes St. Louis Shakespeare Festival (16 productions), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and New Jewish Theatre. Gary has been a faculty member at the Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts for 33 years.

DeMARIUS R. COPES (Minstrel) makes his Muny debut. Broadway credits include Some Like It Hot (OBC), Mean Girls (OBC) and Elf The Musical (2024 revival). Off-Broadway: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (New World Stages); High Spirits, Once Upon a Mattress (NYCC Encores!); Romy & Michele (Stage 42). Tours: Hamilton, Newsies. Regional: Midnight in the Garden … (Goodman Theatre), The Prom (Alliance Theatre), A Chorus Line (Maltz Jupite

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