Freedman and Steven Lutvak (Best Score), Jefferson Mays (Best Actor in a Musical), Bryce Pinkham (Best Actor in a Musical), Lauren Worsham (Best Featured Actress in a Musical), Alexander Dodge (Best Set Design), Dan Moses Shreier (Best Sound Design). Freedman (Best Book of a Musical), Darko Tresnjak (Best Direction of a Musical), and Linda Cho (Best Costume Design). The tour will begin with performances at Clemens Center in Elmira, New York, September 27-28, and conclude in Butte, Montana on May 13, 2018, with stops across North America along the way.Ī Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder received 10 Tony nominations, winning 4, including Robert L. Direction is by Darko Tresnjak, choreography by Peggy Hickey. The cast includes Colleen McLaughlin as Sibella Hallward, and Erin McIntyre as Phoebe D’Ysquith. James Taylor Odom will play eight D’Ysquith heirs and Blake Price will play Monty Navarro. The Cast: Jimmy Brewer (Jeffrey), Samantha Massell (Karla), Liz Larsen (Ruth), Adam Heller (Arthur), Mark Kudisch (Phil), Lesli Margherita (Phyllis), Alex Wyse (Hawk), Ben Fankhauser (Steve), Joyce (Lindsay Brent Carothers), Alejandro (Omar Lopez-Cepero), Ben Bogen, Michael Hartung, Jean Kauffman, Ken Krugman, Taylor Lloyd, Anna Noble, Erin Leigh Peck, Gregory Rodriguez, Steve Routman, William Squier, Kathy Voytko, Price Waldman, Jayke Workman, Kelli Youngman, Stuart Zagnit (Ensemble).Ī Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, the 2014 Tony-winning Best Musical, has announced the full cast and dates for the upcoming 2017-18 National Tour. And as sung by Lesli Margherita in the show’s standout performance, it provides a bravura moment…Ĭreative Team: Alexander Dodge (Set Design). It deepens our understanding of Phyllis’s character while reaching out to larger issues, in this case feminist ones. It addresses the plot moment: Phyllis Brody is telling her love-struck niece, Karla, not to get too involved with a sweet but feckless cabana boy at the El Flamingo beach club where the show takes place. Freedman’s sharp rhymes - and the sinuous, sulfurous music by Scott Frankel - “The Cookie Crumbles” checks off all the boxes of what great musical theater songs should do. And that’s your life.” Let’s just add that “life” is soon paired with “knife.” Even aside from Mr. That song, a highlight of “The Flamingo Kid,” which opened last week at Hartford Stage, is a blistering warning from a suburban matron, circa 1963, about what happens when a woman makes the wrong choice at an early age. Freedman for conscripting “mazel tov” to the cause, in a doozy of a song called “The Cookie Crumbles.” Since the invention of American musical theater, lyricists seeking a rhyme for “love” have been stuck with just a few wan possibilities, including “dove,” “above,” the odd “glove” and the truly desperate “shove.” So, first, let me congratulate Robert L. WHITNEY HOUSTON, BRANDY CINDERELLA MAKES STREAMING DEBUT ON DISNEY+ ROBERT’S NEW BOOK, NOTES ON THE WRITING OF A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, ARRIVES MAY 15, 2021 If you’re interested in writing a musical, or just interested in musicals, this guide is for you.” Winnie Holzman, book writer of Wicked. Freedman draws back the curtain on the mysterious process of creating a musical, takes you by the hand, and leads you through it all with clarity and insight. With candor and insight, Freedman describes the challenging and rewarding growing pains of what the critics called ‘Hilarious!’ and ‘Ingenious!’ and said ‘Ranks among the most inspired and entertaining new musical comedies I’ve seen in years.’įrom the back cover: “Robert L. Freedman takes you through the process of writing a new musical, including story structure, song placement, dialogue, character development, and more that led to the creation of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, the 2014 Best Musical Tony winner. From the publisher’s description: The most frequently asked question about writing musicals is, ‘Which comes first, the music or the lyrics?’ As anyone on Broadway will tell you, the answer is, ‘The book.’ Tony-winning book writer Robert L. Notes On The Writing of A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder (Applause Books) will be available for purchase online and at select stores.
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