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A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder
''A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder'' is a musical comedy, with the book and lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and the music and lyrics by Steven Lutvak. It is based on the 1907 novel '' Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal'' by Roy Horniman. The show opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre November 17, 2013, running until January 17, 2016. The Broadway production won four Tony Awards at the 68th Tony Awards in June 2014, including Best Musical. The novel was also the source for the 1949 British film ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'', with which it shares the conceit of casting one actor as an entire family; however, after a lengthy legal battle, the infringement claim from the film's copyright holder was dismissed. A small production of the show was also performed in 2004 under the same name of the 1949 film. Productions ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder'' premiered at the Hartford Stage, Hartford, Connecticut, running in October and November 2012, with direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Lutvak
Steven Lutvak (born 1959) is an American musician based in New York City. He is a composer for theatre and film, as well as a singer-songwriter. Career Lutvak is most known for his work on ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder'' with Robert L. Freedman, which ran for over two years on Broadway and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. For his work on the show, Lutvak was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score. He has also composed the title track to documentary film ''Mad Hot Ballroom'', and has written music for ''The Wayside Inn'', ''Esmeralda'', ''Almost September'', and ''Campaign of the Century''. Lutvak has also released his own album entitled ''The Time it Takes''. Awards and recognition In 2014 Lutvak's ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder'' won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, and was also nominated for Outstanding Music. The show was also nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score, and received a Tony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa O'Hare
Lisa O'Hare is an English actress who has played Eliza Doolittle in ''My Fair Lady'' and the title character of ''Mary Poppins'' in the West End and UK stage. She more recently has appeared in several prime-time American television shows on TNT, ABC and NBC. She most recently starred on Broadway in the musical, ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder''. Career O'Hare was trained as a ballet dancer, and performed in dance-oriented shows such as ''Alice and the Others'' at Sadler's Wells and ''Defile'' at the Royal Opera House. Moving to musical theatre, O'Hare joined the original London production of ''Mary Poppins'' as the understudy for the original Laura Michelle Kelly as well as a member of the original ensemble in December 2004. She left the production in July 2005. From 28 September 2005 at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, O'Hare joined the National UK Tour of Cameron Mackintosh's production of ''My Fair Lady'' as the alternate Eliza Doolittle, sharing the role with Amy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Hodgman
Roger Hodgman (born 1 December 1943) is an Australian stage and television director. He was educated at the Hutchins School and the University of Tasmania, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science in 1966, and an Honours degree in History in 1972. After beginning his career as a television director with the ABC in 1965, Hodgman worked in London between 1971 and 1977 where he taught acting at East 15 Acting School. He worked in Canada from 1977 to 1983, including as Artistic Director of the Vancouver Playhouse for three years from 1978 to 1981 where he collaborated with Tennessee Williams on productions of Williams' later plays '' The Red Devil Battery Sign'' and '' The Notebook of Trigorin''. In 1983 Hodgman became Dean of the School of Drama at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, establishing more orthodox acting training than under his predecessor Peter Oyston. He became Associate Director of the Melbourne Theatre Company in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell Butel
Mitchell Patrick Butel (born 10 February 1970) is an Australian actor, singer, director and writer. He is best known for his work in theatre, including musical and opera productions. He has been the artistic director of the State Theatre Company of South Australia since March 2019. Early life and education Mitchell Patrick Butel was born on 10 February 1970. He became interested in theatre as a child after seeing the musical ''Song and Dance'' and later '' Little Shop of Horrors''. He attended the University of New South Wales and studied for a degree in arts/law, majoring in Theatre Studies and working as a paralegal in a law firm between terms. Theatre Acting Butel was part of the original cast of the Australian production of ''Avenue Q'' in 2009, playing the roles of two puppet characters, Princeton and Rod. He has since then worked for many theatre companies. In 2012 he played Friar Laurance in Kip Williams' production of ''Romeo and Juliet'' with the Sydney Theatre C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Production Company
The Production Company was an Australian not-for-profit theatre company that staged a series of usually three musicals at the Arts Centre Melbourne each year, until its closure in 2020. It was launched in 1999 by Jeanne Pratt AC with the goal of providing "professional opportunities for local artists and to entertain Melbourne audiences with the best shows from Broadway and beyond". The Production Company specialised in revivals of popular and lesser known musicals with short (two week) rehearsal periods and short runs. It also produced the Australian professional premieres of ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'', '' Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'', ''Grey Gardens'', '' Nice Work If You Can Get It'', ''Curtains'' and ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder''. Its productions typically featured well-known Australian musical theatre performers such as Caroline O'Connor (''Gypsy,'' ''Funny Girl''), Michael Falzon (''Chess''), Marina Prior (''Guys and Dolls'', ''Kiss Me, Kate''), Todd McKenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arts Centre Melbourne
Arts Centre Melbourne, originally known as the Victorian Arts Centre and briefly called the Arts Centre, is a performing arts centre consisting of a complex of theatres and concert halls in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, located in the central Melbourne suburb of Southbank in Victoria, Australia. It was designed by architect Sir Roy Grounds, the masterplan for the complex (along with the National Gallery of Victoria) was approved in 1960 and construction began in 1973 following some delays. The complex opened in stages, with Hamer Hall opening in 1982 and the Theatres Building opening in 1984. Arts Centre Melbourne is located by the Yarra River and along St Kilda Road, one of the city's main thoroughfares, and extends into the Melbourne Arts Precinct. Major companies regularly performing include Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Melbourne Theatre Company, The Production Company, Victorian Opera, Bell Shakespeare, Bangarra Dance Theatre and the Melbourne Symph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butte, Montana
Butte ( ) is a consolidated city-county and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. The city covers , and, according to the 2020 census, has a population of 34,494, making it Montana's fifth largest city. It is served by Bert Mooney Airport with airport code BTM. Established in 1864 as a mining camp in the northern Rocky Mountains on the Continental Divide, Butte experienced rapid development in the late-nineteenth century, and was Montana's first major industrial city. In its heyday between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, it was one of the largest copper boomtowns in the American West. Employment opportunities in the mines attracted surges of Asian and European immigrants, particularly the Irish; as of 2017, Butte has the largest population of Irish Americans per capita of any city in the United States. Butte was also the site of vari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Broadway Database
The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. It was conceived and created by Karen Hauser in 1996 and is operated by the Research Department of The Broadway League, a trade association for the North American commercial theatre community. This comprehensive history of Broadway provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre in the 18th century up to today. Details include cast and creative lists for opening night and current day, song lists, awards and other interesting facts about every Broadway production. Other features of IBDB include an extensive archive of photos from past and present Broadway productions, headshots, links to cast recordings on iTunes or Amazon, gross and attendance information. Its mission was to be an interactive, user-friendly, searchable database for League members, journalists, researchers, and Broadway fans. The League recently added Broadway Touring shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacramento Community Center Theater
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Schenectady, New York
Schenectady () is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2020 census, the city's population of 67,047 made it the state's ninth-largest city by population. The city is in eastern New York, near the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. It is in the same metropolitan area as the state capital, Albany, which is about southeast. Schenectady was founded on the south side of the Mohawk River by Dutch colonists in the 17th century, many of whom came from the Albany area. The name "Schenectady" is derived from the Mohawk word ''skahnéhtati'', meaning "beyond the pines" and used for the area around Albany, New York. Residents of the new village developed farms on strip plots along the river. Connected to the west by the Mohawk River and Erie Canal, Schenectady developed rapidly in the 19th century as part of the Mohawk Valley trade, manufacturing, and transportation corridor. By 1824, more people worked in manufactu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proctor's Theatre (Schenectady, New York)
Proctor's Theatre (officially stylized as Proctors since 2007; however, the marquee retains the apostrophe) is a theatre and former vaudeville house located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Many famous artists have performed there, notably Mariah Carey (whose 1993 top-rated Thanksgiving special was taped there), Britney Spears, Hal Holbrook, Ted Wiles, and George Burns, as well as many others. It has one of the largest movie screens in the Northeast. The theatre was opened on December 27, 1926. It was designed by architect Thomas Lamb. Four years later it hosted the first public demonstration of television. In 1979 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places, shortly before being renovated after a long period of decline and neglect. A renovation completed in 2007 added two theatres to the complex, providing a variety of performance spaces. Building The theater building is located on the south side of State Street (NY 5), in a densely developed comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryce Pinkham
Bryce Allen Pinkham (born October 19, 1982) is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in the PBS period drama ''Mercy Street''. On Broadway, he played Monty Navarro in ''A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder''. For the latter role, he received nominations for a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and a Grammy (Best Musical Theater Album). He is a Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellow and co-founder of ''Zara Aina'', a not-for-profit children's theater company in Madagascar. He voiced Stolas in the YouTube animated web series ''Helluva Boss''. Personal life Pinkham was born in Redding, California. He was raised in the East San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Campolindo High School in Moraga, California. He is a graduate of Boston College and the Yale School of Drama."Bryce Pinkham Broadway" ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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