A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER Tour Coming to 5th Avenue Theatre; Cast Announced!

The Tony Award winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, will play The 5th Avenue Theatre as a part of its First National Tour, which launched in September, 2015.

Gentleman's Guide runs July 12-July 31, 2016 (press night Thursday, July 14, 2016) at The 5th Avenue Theatre (1308 5th Avenue, Seattle). For single tickets (starting at $36) and information, please visit www.5thavenue.org, call the Box Office at (206) 625-1900 or visit the Box Office at 1308 5th Avenue in Downtown Seattle. Tickets may also be purchased at (888) 5TH-4TIX. Group ticket buyers (10 or more) may call (888) 625-1418.

Gentleman's Guide tells the uproarious story of Monty Navarro, a distant heir to a family fortune who sets out to jump the line of succession, by any means necessary. All the while, he's got to juggle his mistress (she's after more than just love), his fiancée (she's his cousin but who's keeping track?), and the constant threat of landing behind bars! Of course, it will all be worth it if he can slay his way to his inheritance... and be done in time for tea.

The most celebrated musical of the 2013-14 Broadway season, Gentleman's Guide received ten 2014 Tony Award nominations, eventually winning four awards: Best Musical, Direction of a Musical, Book of a Musical, and Best Costume Design. In addition, it won the Best Musical prizes from the Drama League, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle, and received a 2015 Grammy Award nomination for Best Musical Show Album.

Leading the cast are Kevin Massey (Gentleman's Guide, Memphis) as Monty Navarro and John Rapson (LES MISERABLES) as the eight members of the D'Ysquith family. Kristen Beth Williams (Pippin, Nice Work...) plays Sibella Hallward and Adrienne Eller plays Phoebe D'Ysquith. Seattle's own Mary VanArsdel plays Miss Shingle.

Rounding out the cast is Lesley McKinnell (Miss Barley), Kristen Mengelkoch (Lady Eugenia), Christopher Behmke (Magistrate), Sarah Ellis (Swing/Dance Captain), Matt Leisy (Tom Copley), Megan Loomis (Tour Guide), Dani Marcus (Swing), David Scott Purdy (Swing), Chuck Ragsdale (Swing) and Ben Roseberry (Chief Inspector Pinckney)

The design team includes Alexander Dodge (Scenic Design), Linda Cho (Costume Design), Philip S. Rosenberg (Lighting Design), Dan Moses Schreier (Sound Design), Aaron Rhyne (Projections Design), Brian Strumwasser (Make-Up Design) and Charles LaPointe (Wig Design). Orchestrations are by Jonathan Tunick and Vocal Arrangements are by Dianne Adams McDowell and Steven Lutvak. Paul Staroba serves as Music Supervisor.

Gentleman's Guide features a book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak. Direction is by Darko Tresnjak, with choreography by Peggy Hickey. Gentleman's Guide opened at Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre to overwhelming critical acclaim in November 2013 where The New York Times raved "Gentlemen's Guide will lift the hearts of all those who've been pining for what sometimes seems a lost art form." The Hollywood Reporter enthused Gentleman's Guide "restores our faith in musical comedy!" and Time Magazine said "just as I was about to give up on musicals, along comes A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder!"

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