Complete casting has been announced for the 2017–2018 national tour of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. Produced by NETworks Presentations, the non-Equity tour of the Tony-winning musical will hit the Thrasher-Horne Center Main Stage on January 5th.
The cast will be headed by James Taylor Odom as the eight D’Ysquith heirs and Blake Price as Monty Navarro, with Colleen McLaughlin as Sibella Hallward and Erin McIntyre as Phoebe D’Ysquith.
The ensemble comprises Timothy Aaron Cooper, Ashton Michael Corey, Mia Fitzgibbon, Colleen Gallagher, Briana Gantsweg, Kristen Kane, Tyler Lenhart, Conor McGiffin, Ryne Nardecchia, and Rosie Webber.
Gentleman’s Guide concerns Monty Navarro, a distant heir to a family fortune who sets out to jump the line of succession—by any means necessary.
Gentleman’s Guide received ten 2014 Tony Award nominations, 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.
Peggy Hickey will direct and choreograph, based on the original Tony-winning direction by Darko Tresnjak and Hickey’s own original choreography. The design and production team also features scenic designer Alexander Dodge, costume designer Linda Cho, associate director and choreographer Adam Cates, lighting designer Philip S. Rosenberg, and sound designer Dan Moses Schreier, with casting by Aaron Rhyne and Jason Styres, CSA. Original orchestrations are by Jonathan Tunick, and vocal arrangements are by Dianne Adams McDowell and Steven Lutvak. Paul Staroba serves as music supervisor.
