"Is anybody else sick and tired of musicals about show business?"
Subject matter is way down on my list of things I care about. If someone tells a great story well, with great songs, and an amazing cast, it becomes less important what the show is about to me. Mothers with psychological issues who see their dead sons, people chopping people to serve as pies, man-eating plants, National Geographic photographers who seduce bored housewives, all fine by me.
haterobics, I agree with you 100%! It's easy to take pretty much any subject matter/concept and boil it down to something that sounds awful. And I doubt audiences care- twenty-some years later and they still want to see a disfigured psychopath stalk a pretty girl or a bunch of French peasants die. Aside from the title that's just begging for a storm of terrible puns, I think Something Rotten sounds kind of fun!