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.
