A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder - Likeable Theatre for Tourists

A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder at the Walter Kerr Theatre is a new musical on Broadway which has plenty of good things to recommend.  The clever music & lyrics by award winning composer Steven Lutvak.  The singing & acting by its lead actors, Bryce Pinkham, Lisa O'Hare & Lauren Worksham whose love triangle is charming and their voices, particularly their overtone singing is delightful.  Jefferson Mays who plays numerous characters adds humor & wit to each role.  The musical is told in flashback with Monty Navarro (Bryce Pinkham) in prison awaiting execution writing (aloud) his true story depicting the calculated killings of 6 members of the D'Ysquith family (think Dowtown Abby) to rise to the top of the food chain.  The staging of each murder proves more creative  than the next.  But, as the opening chorus for the play set in London, 1909, tells us "No one ever tells the truth."  The truth is this musical is entertaining.  The type of musical that will play to tourists (and on the road) and the show to take your folks to when they're in town.  I give it a sold B but it doesn't get a must see from me.