Only 225 tickets in a 381 seat house will be sold, Social Distancing is possible.
Tacoma Musical Playhouse will present the award winning A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder opening Friday, March 13. In 2014, it opened on Broadway and garnered the most award nominations for that year; a total of ten nominations and four wins, including Best Musical, Book, Direction and Costumes. In addition, it won seven Drama Desk Awards (including Best Musical, four Outer Critics Circle Awards (including Best Musical and one Drama League Award (Best Musical.)
Along with the 1949 British film, Kind Hearts and Coronets, A Gentleman’s Guide is based on a 1907 novel Israel Rank, The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman, in which an orphan whose aristocratic mother was spurned by her wealthy family when she married a Spanish musician. The orphan takes his revenge by killing, in highly creative and amusing ways, about ten people who stand in line to inherited the title which he covets.
Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Tacoma Musical Playhouse. 7116 Sixth Avenue, 98406Tacoma Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30PM Sundays, 2:00PM Saturdays, March 28 & April 4, 2:00 PM. Show closes April 5. Tickets by phone at 253-565-6867, and online at www.tmp.org. Box office is open Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 AM until 6:00 PM.