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.