A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder National Tour
Photo by Jeremy Daniel, courtesy of Broadway in Atlanta
Broadway musicals can bring to life epic historical drama (Les Mis, Hamilton), sweep you up in the spectacle (The Lion King, Dreamgirls) or melt you with romance (West Side Story, The Phantom of the Opera).
Or they can just make you laugh.
It’s fair to say to say A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder won its 2014 Tony for Best Musical simply by charming voters with its slapstick comedy. The music by Steven Lutvak is enjoyable. The modest set is put to clever use. The story is original. But everything seems slight compared with the abundant humor. This is a play you attend when you simply want to chuckle, snigger and guffaw.
The national tour began a six-day run at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre last night before moving on to several cities across the U.S., including a stop next week in Austin, Texas. It tells the story of a young man at the beginning of the 20th century who learns that he’s ninth in line to inherit the Earldom of Highhurst. Monty Navarro’s relatives, the D’Ysquiths, had cruelly disinherited his mother for marrying a commoner for love. She had to work as a washerwoman to support Monty after her husband passed away.
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