![]() ![]() After he is rejected for a job at the D’Ysquith Banking House, and the dotty and alcoholic Reverend Lord Ezekial D’Ysquith refuses to help him, he decides to go about getting his revenge in earnest. When his girlfriend, the beautiful and seductive Sibella Hallward (Lisa O’Hare), tells him that she will only marry for wealth and position, he decides to do something to secure both. He recalls how immediately after his mother’s funeral, he receives a visit in his shabby Clapham home from his mother’s old friend Miss Shingle, a woman of a certain age, who informs him that on his maternal side he is a D’Ysquith (pronounced Die – squith) as his mother Isabel D’Ysquith was disinherited when she married his Castilian father, and as such he is eighth in line to the title and estate of Highhurst Castle. This confection has been brilliantly directed by Darko Tresnjak in a cartoon style much more suited to a Broadway musical that the drawing style of the famed British film.īased on a 1907 novel by British author Roy Horniman, A Gentleman’s Guide begins with young Monty Navarro, now the ninth Earl of Highhurst (Pinkham), writing his memoirs in London’s Pentonville Prison while awaiting his trial for murder (ironically for the one murder in the tale he did not commit). He is also joined by the charming Bryce Pinkham as the black sheep protagonist who decides to get his revenge for being cut out of his inheritance. While Mays has already played 35 characters in the same evening in the Pulitzer Prize winning I Am My Own Wife by changing his voice and his demeanor, here he actually has to change into elaborate Edwardian costumes each time, quite a feat of legerdemain, as well as sing in character. The most memorable part of the show is Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays who plays all eight of the D’Ysquiths, the upper class victims both male and female, just as Sir Alec Guiness did in Coronets. Freedman (book and lyrics) and Steven Lutvak (music and lyrics). ![]() A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder is a delightful entertainment in the style of the British music hall that introduces a new writing team to Broadway: Robert L. ![]() Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief If the plot of this new Broadway musical sounds familiar, it is simply that it is based on the same novel that inspired the British film, Kind Hearts and Coronets. ![]()
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