A Gentleman’s Guide To Love & Murder NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (2,104)
See it if You enjoy musical comedies
Don't see it if You're offended easily, or if you're expecting a deep story Read more
See it if want a perfect night of excellent British theatre done with some of the best in the business.
Don't see it if you can't handle slap-stick.
See it if Fun show. Enjoyed it
Don't see it if No reason not to see it
See it if You would want to see a musical comedy about murder. Also, you must enjoy a small cast, where one actor is cast in SEVERAL main roles.
Don't see it if You want a hugely deep plot. It is about a man killing relatives to become rich, and there's a love triangle as well. More comedy than plot.
See it if you miss the old classic musical sound. This show is a rare beauty of classic musical theater in a sea of rock and pop. Unbelievably clever
Don't see it if You don't like classic Broadway sound
See it if you love high-stakes humor and clever style in a show. Fun music, brilliant performances & a great set are just a few reasons to go!
Don't see it if you don't like to laugh and can't suspend disbelief to understand what you're watching.
See it if You love musical comedies.
Don't see it if You don't like musical comedies.
See it if Before it closes the funniest musical in years
Don't see it if The only reason not to see it is because the theater seats are really small
Critic Reviews (19)
"A true tour de force that is hardly likely to be bettered on Broadway this season...Despite the high body count, this delightful show will lift the hearts of all those who’ve been pining for what sometimes seems a lost art form: musicals that match streams of memorable melody with fizzily witty turns of phrase."
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"Since it turns on the niceties of aristocratic succession, why not start the coronation early: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is the new undisputed king of musical comedy. Filled with lunatic sightgags and the wittiest, loveliest show tunes in years, there’s not a weak link in the lively cast."
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"The authors of the musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder are aiming for droll comedy; especially in the knock-’em-dead performance of Jefferson Mays as various undearly departeds, they usually hit their mark."
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"An unforgiving theater fact: A musical can have everything else going for it, but without a great score it’s got a hole in its heart. Case in point — the fun but flawed “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.”
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"Witty and adorably wicked...the show’s heart is in the old music halls, where the jokes were vulgar, the songs were upbeat, the lyrics were in bad taste, and the thespians often got away with…well, murder."
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"The show embraces a full spectrum of moth-eaten British comic archetypes, not least of them the frightfully plummy Adelbert, togged out in upper-crust hunting gear, his big number backed by the singing portraits of deceased forebears. Also unmistakably English is the musical’s judicious smattering of bawdy humor and double entendres."
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"The big hook of the musical “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” is Jefferson Mays. He doesn’t just give a performance — he gives eight of them, impersonating members of the same British family. And yet none of them really register."
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Overkill has seldom been more enjoyable than in A Gentleman's Guide, a thoroughly delightful and uproarious Broadway musical about an Edwardian serial killer who could be a well-heeled cousin of Sweeney Todd by way of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves."
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