Review: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER Comes to The Bushnell

Last night, the laugh-out-loud comedy, A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder opened at The Bushnell in Hartford, Connecticut, and it did not disappoint the chuckling crowd.

The musical comedy took the stage, presenting a storyline weaving deception, seduction, and murder in one, modeling after Israel Rank's novel from 1907, The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman.

The tale unfolds of Monty Navarro (Kevin Massey) and the learning of his heir into a filthy rich family. A lonely man who is reeling the loss of his mother and his lover to another man, stops at nothing to inherit the family fortune. He will lie, steal, cheat, and of course, murder his way to the top, which he does quite successfully, given he has no prior experience - at least we don't think.

While the audience watches Monty take out one relative after another (all played by one man, John Rapson), there's so much more going on than just murder. Between his complicated love affair with his on-and-off-again mistress, Sibella (Kristen Bell Williams) and current fiancé (ahem, also his cousin) Phoebe D'Ysquith (Kristen Hahn), and the itch of getting caught by authorities, Monty's yearning for succession is wild ride that can't be missed.

A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder is now showing until October 30th.