A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder at Santa Fe Playhouse

Santa Fe Playhouse (SFP) proudly presents the four Tony Award-winning Edwardian-style murderous musical farce, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. With a book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, and lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak. The production will be directed by Rebecca Aparicio.

When British, newly orphaned Monty Navarro discovers he’s ninth in line to inherit the Earldom of Highhurst, he decides to murder every member of the high-society D’Ysquith family standing in his way, all the while keeping a mistress, Sibella Hallward, and courting the young Phoebe D’Ysquith. In this laugh-filled musical, one actor plays all eight of the doomed heirs. 

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is based on Roy Horniman’s 1907 novel, Israel Rank. It premiered at Hartford Stage in October 2012, followed by a March 2013 run at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. It opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre November 17, 2013. The musical won four 2014 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Direction of a Musical, Book of a Musical, and Costume Design of a Musical.

Featuring John Alejandro Jeffords as Monty Navarro, Rikki Carroll as Phoebe, Cara Juan as Sibella, and David Stallings as the members of the D’Ysquith Family. With Andra Beatty as Lady Eugenia D’Ysquith and others, Bill Brooks as Magistrate and others, Sierra Jimenez as Miss Barley and others, Dakotah Lopez as Chief Inspector Pinckney and others, Patrick MacDonald as Tom Copley and others, Karen Gruber Ryan as Miss Shingle and others.

Featuring scenic design by James W. Johnson, lighting design by Rob Siler, costume design by Erica Frank, sound design by Saibi Khalsa, props design by Jocelyn Causey, choreography by Laura Orozco Garrett, music direction by Stephen Elkins, intimacy & assistant direction by Antonio Miniño, and stage management by Robert Peatman. Rounding up the team are Daniel Thobias as the assistant costume designer, Stephanie Barton-Farcas as the dialect coach, and Casey Standridge as the assistant stage manager.

The live orchestra is conducted by Gretchen Amstutz, with Will Varner on Piano, Kevin Darrow on Oboe & English Horn, Karles McQuade on Violin, Lynette Gassner on Bass, and Jeff Sussmann on Percussion.