A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a musical comedy based on the 1907 novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman. The show, which opened on Broadway at the Walter Theatre, centers on Monty Navarro, a penniless clerk who discovers he is ninth in line to inherit the Earldom of Highhurst after his mother’s death. The show is set in London in 1907 and will launch its first national tour in September.
The show is a clever and jolly 90-minute frolic about a mouse of a disinherited Brit who kills his way up the noble line. The first national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder officially opens on September 30 at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre. The show will be at The Fox Theatre from March 13-18, and the non-equity national tour will launch on September 27 at the Clemens Center in Elmira, New York.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder tells the uproarious story of Monty Navarro, a distant British commoner, who sets out to jump the line of succession. Direct from New York with the 2014 Tony Award® for Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder tells the uproarious story of Monty Navarro, a distant heir to a family fortune. The non-equity national tour of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is set to launch on September 27 at the Clemens Center in Elmira, New York.
📹 A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
📹 2014 Tony Awards – A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder – “I’ve Decided to Marry You”
68th Tony Awards 2014 – A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder – Performance of “I’ve Decided to Marry You”
Hi everyone – just wanted to take a quick moment to thank you all – I do love this article and this performance as much as you all do – it is, in my opinion, the greatest performance at any Tony Awards. I so regret not having seen GGLAM on or off Broadway, and when I do get to finally watch my first Broadway musical, this will have contributed a large part to my musical obsession! I never would have imagined that a bored teenager downloading his favourite performance from the 2014 Tonys would have led to this article being watched over 2 million times!! (Although I do think that about 500,000 of those views may have just come from me.) I randomly re-uploaded the article when it was taken down (or rather, geoblocked for those outside the US), and am glad it brings all of you as much joy as it brings me.
One of the most original, creative, and mind-blowing productions I’ve seen on Broadway. It’s not utilized much in this scene, but a projector illustrates much of the story behind the actors, including spirals when someone falls down a well! Also, perusal one man play seven roles is absolutely mind-numbing. He just dies over and over again!! I could talk about this show for hours.
Funniest moments: All of the opening lady characters lines (the guy that plays the members of the family) Monty: pay no attention… That’s my new my MAN servant… Whatsworth?…. (hand gestures) look what you’ve done to me… Be just a moment! Virtue (Phebie lol) : darling first I have to say this, I’ve decided to marry you(exited child) … how I’m longing to marry you (deep tone) Sabella : isn’t this fun, isn’t she done…. Why don’t you send the cow away…. Throw purse at door. This is all done and written so well
How I wish I could see a live recording of this show! I live on the other side of the world, so no chance in hell I’d be able to catch this on Broadway or any other venue live (and this good!). I do have the Original Cast Recording, and I’ve played it over and over, but seeing the whole play (recorded as performed by these absolutely brilliant members of the original cast) would be absolute heaven!
I went to see this in broadway when I was visiting, and had the luck to find tickets on the same day. Decided based on their Tony Award, and ABSOLUTELY loved it. the dude that opens has so many characters and does SO WELL, it took me 2 hours to figure out it was the same dude. I have been to a few teatre presentations but this is so far my favourite! If they made it to London I would go and see it again and drag my whole family with me
such a great musical!! it came through florida at the beginning of last month. i dont think i’ve seen a modern musical thats actually 3 years old that has such an old school feel to it in a long time. i orignally thought it was a revival of a play that was locked in a muscial theater vault due to its nature of being.. this show is so brilliant on so many levels
FABULOUS song. Loved it when I first heard it at the Tony’s. I would LOVE to see this play BUT theater for the middle classes remains decidedly out of reach. Ticket prices are astronomical and if one does not live in NYC it is impossible to attend. If one is elderly or disabled the same applies. Some day and I wish I had the proper contacts Broadway SHOULD be made available to the masses and easily could. We saw two Verdi’s operas at our local theater and absolutely LOVED how they made you feel as if you were at the Met and took you behind the scenes and interviews with the cast. It was unbelievable. OR even better they could make it available on HD TV for a price. However steep that price it would be 1/2 the cost of attending the play on Broadway. It COULD happen IF the powers that be on Broadway gave one care about bringing the glories of the theater to the population at large. If the Met can do it why not Broadway?
The problem with seeing this is that what comes afterwards- The Audience; Disaster; The Humans; Cagney, etc. in comparison is inevitably disappointing (with the exception of Richard McCabe in The Audience, who won a Best Supporting Actor Tony in his role of Harold Wilson. Somehow, they forgot to mention that Wilson, on his FIRST DAY as England’s PM, punched a reporter right in the stomach). — The wit of the authors of “Gentleman’s” shines more brightly each time I hear their songs and see their scenes. I sure hope that it will not be long before we once again can see something on Broadway so thrilling, so challenging, so satisfying.
hey guys i’m heading to new york this summer and I really want to catch a Broadway play! Would you recommend that i watch A Gentlemen’s Guide or The Book of Mormon? and also if there are any ways you recommend to get same-day tickets to either? I know that its almost impossible to get Rush tickets for Book of Mormon!
Something that occurs to me now only having watched this for the 4th or so time. How did they build those doors? They look to be solid and appear used to hold a lot of weight. Yet they need to be able to quickly wheel it off stage. Are there some kind of special attachment locks on the stage floor to anchor the set down to or is there something else?
(MONTY, spoken) Oh! Pay no attention! That’s… My new manservant! He’s just… finding his way around! I’ll be with you in a moment… Wadsworth!” (MONTY) Isn’t this madness? Who could foresee How one trick of timing could ruin it all? One in the parlor, one in the bedroom Nothing between them but me and a wall! Look at Phoebe! Noble and pious My esteem for her only grows But, when I am with Phoebe I am on fire thinking of… Sibella! Full of desire Passion, and–dare I say it?–love! But, when I’m with Sibella Whom do I admire? None but Phoebe! Perfect and lovely Who couldn’t love her? Heaven knows! ‘Round and ’round and ’round it goes! How happy I’d be To be at your disposal My darling, of course! I accept your proposal!
What am I doing here this could be dangerous! If I’m discovered imagine the scandal! And I couldn’t handle a scandal so visible. I’ll stay invisible! As still as can be. But what’s going on in there?! I can hear voices. I recognize Monty but is that a woman? And if it’s a woman then what is she doing here? Is it the cousin I wish I could see? If it’s that cousin it might just be business! It’s family business. And none of my business. But why is she here in the home of a bachelor! Of course one could point out that I’m here as well! But does she not realize this situation puts her reputation severely in question.
I’ve decided to marry you I’ve decided to marry you! I’ve decided-though Henry’s gone- That life goes on for me! I have thoroughly thought it through And the man that I want is you! Though, it’s true, there are quite a few Who’d strongly disagree Nonetheless! I will marry you I confess that I’m frightened to… Yet, unless I am wrong, you long for love As much as I! This is quite unconventional, I admit But why should that matter a whit? And, if you do not say yes at once, I think I’ll die! (MONTY, spoken) Miss D’ysquith, you’ve rendered me speechless! May I call you Phoebe? 1:52 (SIBELLA) What am I doing here? This could be dangerous If I’m discovered, imagine the scandal! And I couldn’t handle a scandal so risible… I’ll stay invisible; still as can be…
While I haven’t seen this play in its entirety, from this one song, I am convinced I prefer the original film (Kind Hearts and Coronets), which starred Sir Alec Guinness as every relative standing between the “hero” and his ascent to lordship. This song just turns a dark comedy into a farce, and I can’t say I care for the change in tone, though I do enjoy musical comedies (and patter songs in particular).
(a Jordan Peterson impression) You may be dreaming of a Phoebe for a wife, but the reality leads you to more chances to bump into a Sibella; she’s an excessively tasted woman in need a strong sex appeal of a man. Therefore she married a classmate in need of wealth, and also in need of a strong masculine figure hardly noticeable at that time in the British society; now that’s one thirst she fulfills from half-Spanish Monty. Face it; that’s called nature!
I am talking about Richard Rogers(whatever) who created the beautiful melodies of Oklahoma,South Pacific,The King and I,It takes genius to create a beautiful melody. Any untaLENTED MEDIOCRITY CAN CREATE THAT REPITIOUS,MONOTONUS,MINDLESS,FULL OF VULGARITYPROFANITY WHICH PASSES FOR POPULAR MUSIC TODAY. YOU MAY CALL IT MUSIC BUT IT IS THE MUSIC OF GENETIC INSUFFICIENCY. Also, moaning and screaming is not singing. it is all the same dreary crap totally devoid of originality, creativity class or taste