The Community Players, based at Jenks Auditorium in Pawtucket, are in their 101st season of providing quality theatre.

Their 379th production is one of their all-time best, and the best community theatre production I have seen in many a year.

Successful production begins with play selection. The 2015 hit Broadway musical., “Something Rotten” received ten Tony nominations and is considered one of the funniest musicals ever written.

It also requires good voices, intricate choreography, and perfect comic timing. Community Players comes through on all with flying colors.

With a cast of nearly two dozen, some on stage for the first time, a six piece orchestra, and a huge production team behind them, the Players perform miracles.

Director Joan Dillenback had the production numbers completely under control, filling the stage at times with the complete cast, directing the all-important comic timing, and keeping the pacing going from opening scene to a finale that had the audience on their feet.

Credit Choreographer Julia Gillis for taking non-equity, part-time actors and turning them into professional dancers, spending hours teaching them tap routines.

 The musical is filled with familiar Shakespearean lines, and even an appearance by the Bard himself, portrayed as an egotistical Elvis-like rascal by Tyler Rebello. He has been stealing lines from his rival Nigel Bottom (Christopher Margadonna).

Nigel and his older brother Nick (John K. McElroy II) are looking for financial backers to produce their own play in competition with the popular Shakespeare.

Nick seeks out Nostradamus, (Greg “Spaz” Gillis) a soothsayer who convinces him to produce a musical. His explanation of the unheard of “musical” is hilarious, as is every word and gesture that comes out of this talented actor.

Nostradamus mistakes Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” for “Omelette”, resulting in “Something Rotten”.

I won’t tell you how it ends, because you must see this hysterically funny production. But Nick’s wife (Rebbeca Kilcline) shows that although women can’t appear on stage, they can play an important role in the outcome of this play. And yes, there’s a love story.

 The songs and production numbers are as good-no better-than what you usually hear and see in community theatre.

The first act’s “A Musical” is a showstopper!

“Make an Omelette” in the second act combines Shakespearean lines with popular Broadway musicals.

The Fiddler on the Roof dances side by side with the Phantom of the Opera.

And then there is “To Thine Own Self Be True”, sort of the theme of “Something Rotten”, sung beautifully by McElroy.

Space prevents everybody’s name who had a part in this production, but they are in the program

“Something Rotten” is at Community Playhouse at Jenks School Auditorium, 350 Division St. across the street from McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket April 28-30. Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Go on line at thecommunityplayers.com for tickets. It is sure to sell out.