A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Book by Robert L Freeman Music by Steven Lutvak Lyrics by Robert L Freeman and Steven Lutvak
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a musical comedy by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak. It is based on the 1907 novel Israel Rank: the Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman. The novel was also the source for the 1949 British film Kind Hearts and Coronets; however, apparently for legal reasons, that title was not permitted to be used.
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Theatre
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Nov 17, 2013 – Jan 17, 2016
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Musical, Original
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Walter Kerr Theater, New York, NY Seats # 975
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Synopsis
Based on Roy Horniman’s novel Israel Rank, Which was loosely based source for the comedy movie Kind Hearts and Coronets starring Alec Guinness and now has been adapted for the stage as A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Monty Navarro, a British commoner, discovering that he’s ninth in line to inherit the Earldom of Highhurst and electing to murder the members of the odious D’Ysquith family standing in his way. In the process Monty keeps a mistress, Sibella Hallward, and courts the comely young Phoebe D’Ysquith. Monty who has also embarked on a killing spree to remove the eight relatives who stand between him and his prize. Adalbert will eventually (and sensationally) get his comeuppance, but not until the second act.
Cast
| Jefferson Mays | D’squith Family | |
| Bryce Pinkham | Monty Navarro |
| Jane Carr | Miss Shingle | |
| Lisa O’Hare Broadway debut | Sibella Hallward | |
| Lauren Worsham | Phoebe D’Ysquith |
| Joanna Glushak | Lady Eugenia | |
| Newsboy | ||
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| Eddie Korbich | Magistrate | |
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| Jeff Kready | Tom Copley | |
| Newsboy | ||
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| Jennifer Smith | Tour Guide | |
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| Newsboy | ||
| Price Waldman | Detective | |
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| Catherine Walker | Miss Barley | |
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Swings: Pamela Bob and Mark Ledbetter
Video
Creative
 
| Directed by | Darko Tresnjak |
| Book / Lyrics by | Robert L Freeman |
| Music / Lyrics by | Steven Lutvak |
| Choreograph by | Peggy Hickey |
| Music Director | Paul Staroba |
| Orchestrations by | Jonathan Tunick |
| Scenic Design by | Alexander Dodge |
| Costume Desing by | Linda Cho |
| Lighting Design by | Philip S. Rosenberg |
| Sound Design by | Dan Moses Schreier |
| Projection Design by | Aaron Rhyne |
| Hair and Wigs by | Charles G Lapointe |
| Production Stage Manager | Susie Cordon |
| Asst Stage Manager | Brian Rardin |
| Asst Stage Manager | Rachel Zack |
| Producers | |
| Joey Parnes, John Arthur Pinckard, 50 Church st, Jay & Una Jackman, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, S.D Wagner, John Johnson, Ryan Hugh Mackey Co-Prod Hartford Stage, The Old Globe, | |
Film
Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British black comedy film starring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness (as eight members of the D’Ascoyne family), Joan Greenwood and Valerie Hobson. The plot is loosely based on the 1907 novel Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman, with the screenplay written by Robert Hamer and John Dighton and the film directed by Hamer. The film’s title derives from Tennyson’s 1842 poem Lady Clara Vere de Vere: Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.
Roy Horniman Author
(1874 – 1930) was a British writer.
He was the owner of The Ladies Review for some years and was a member of the British Committee of The Indian National Congress. As well as acting he became tenant and manager of the Criterion Theatre and wrote many plays as well as adaptations of his own and other’s novels. In his later years he wrote and adapted for the screen. Amongst his notable works were Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal (1907) which was republished by Faber Finds in 2008, on which the film Kind Hearts and Coronets was based, as well as the 2013 Broadway play, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. He also wrote The Sin of Atlantis in 1900 and Lord Cammarleigh’s Secret: A Fairy Story of To-Day in 1907.
Roy Horniman served in the Artists Rifles during the First World War.
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