{"id":173,"date":"2016-11-16T14:35:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/a-gentleman%e2%80%99s-guide-to-love-murder-by-juanita-seon-leary-kids-first-adult-juror\/"},"modified":"2016-11-16T14:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T21:35:06","slug":"a-gentleman%e2%80%99s-guide-to-love-murder-by-juanita-seon-leary-kids-first-adult-juror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2016\/a-gentleman%e2%80%99s-guide-to-love-murder-by-juanita-seon-leary-kids-first-adult-juror\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Love & Murder By Juanita Seon Leary, KIDS FIRST! Adult Juror"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GentlemansGuide.jpg\"<\/a>I had the pleasure of seeing the Tony- Award winning musical A Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Love & Murder<\/em> at the Playhouse at Rodney Square, formerly the Dupont Theater in Wilmington, Delaware.\u00a0 The Playhouse at Rodney Square continues to feel like a grand theater of yesteryear.<\/p>\n

I am a fan of musicals.\u00a0 When I was a young child, I wanted to be a tap dancer in a musical show.\u00a0 A Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Love & Murder<\/em> lives up to an award- winning musical production.\u00a0 In each scene, lavish Edwardian decor of the sets put you in the time frame.<\/p>\n

A Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Love & Murder<\/em> is the story of a young man Monty Navarro (Kevin Massey) who discovers, to his great shock, that his unfortunate late mother was disinherited from the highborn D’Ysquith clan for marrying a Castilian musician for love.\u00a0 Monty finds out he is ninth in line to inherit a dukedom and he decides to eliminate the other eight heirs standing in his way. Monty meets and eliminates them one by one.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed watching Monty plan his way to dukedom.\u00a0 It is so funny to watch all eight D\u2019Ysquith heirs (John Rapson). Each character has distinctive look and personality as he portrays The Rev. Lord D\u2019Ezekial, the buxom Lady Hyacinth, the pompousness of the reigning Lord Adalbert and the perkiness of the bright-eyed beekeeper Henry with whom he sings double-entendres in a mock-duet, \u201cBetter With a Man\u201d).<\/p>\n

One of my favorite numbers is the scene in which Monty tries to keep his latest love interest, Phoebe (Kristin Hahn), from discovering that his old flame, Sibella (Kristen Beth Williams) is in the other room.\u00a0 It is very creative and the ladies\u2019 beautiful voices blend to let us see Monty dilemma.<\/p>\n

All the cast members are excellent singers, dances and actors. If you want to be entertained, learn a few tips about how to move to front of the line of heirs and entertain more than one love, go see A Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Love & Murder now playing at The Playhouse of Rodney Square, until November 20, 2016.<\/p>\n

I recommend A Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Love & Murder<\/em> for ages 14 to 18 and adults will enjoy it also. I give A Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Love & Murder 5 out of 5 stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had the pleasure of seeing the Tony- Award winning musical A Gentleman\u2019s Guide to Love & Murder at the Playhouse at Rodney Square, formerly the Dupont Theater in Wilmington, Delaware.\u00a0 The Playhouse at Rodney Square continues to feel like a grand theater of yesteryear. I am a fan of musicals.\u00a0 When I was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jury-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}