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A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder Trivia


A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder Broadway

    International Productions

  • An Australian production of A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder opened at the Arts Centre Melbourne for The Production Company in October 2018.
  • Musical Composition

  • A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder is a musical comedy based on the 1907 novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman.
  • Notable Tours

  • A U.S. national tour of the production opened in September 2015 and included a performance at the Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York.
  • Production Facts

  • The show opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on November 17, 2013, and ran until January 17, 2016.
  • At the 68th Tony Awards in June 2014, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
  • Jefferson Mays played nine members of the D'Ysquith family in the original Broadway production of the musical.
  • The initial capitalization of the Broadway production was $7.5 million, and the producers announced the recoupment of this capitalization in April 2015.
  • The musical was directed by Darko Tresnjak and choreographed by Peggy Hickey during its Broadway run.
  • A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder was first premiered at the Hartford Stage in Connecticut during October and November 2012.
  • The novel that the musical is based on also inspired the 1949 British film Kind Hearts and Coronets, which shares the conceit of casting one actor as an entire family.

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