OUT AT THE GLOBE: Thursday, March 14 at 6:30 p.m. An evening for gay and lesbian theater lovers and the whole


LGBT community, OUT at the Globe includes a hosted wine and martini bar, appetizers and door prizes for an additional $20 per person. RSVP at 619.234.5623. Tickets toA Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder are sold separately.


sharp, surprising and entertaining. And at its helm is the great Darko Tresnjak, an old friend I’m delighted to welcome back to the Globe. Darko’s partners in crime are the stellar Ken Barnett and Jefferson Mays, two of the most exciting stage actors in America, whose deft and hilarious performances are real tours de force.” Mays’ Broadway debut in the one-man showI Am


My Own Wife earned him the 2004 Tony Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, so playing multiple charac- ters is nothing new to him. The setting of this witty music hall comedy is England’s elegant Edwardian


“It’s very RARE in theater you get to DIE a spectacular death and then play someone NEW,”


(from left) Jefferson Mays as Henry D’Ysquith and Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro Photo by Joan Marcus.


GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER


A GENTLEMAN’S


A WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL COMEDY AT THE OLD GLOBE by randy hope


hen Monty Navarro, the black sheep of the D’Ysquith family, finds out he is ninth in line to inherit a dukedom, he decides to eliminate the other eight heirs standing in his way—all played by one agile


actor, Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is a witty music hall comedy that


explores how low one will go to make it to the top. A coproduction with Hart- ford Stage, former Co-Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak returns to the Old Globe Theatre to direct this world premiere musical of merriment and murder based on Roy Horniman’s novel Israel Rank. The production opens Wednesday, March 13 and runs through Sunday, April 14, on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre. “It’s a beguiling and very funny new musical [that] will delight Globe audi-


ences,” according to Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. “The remarkable team of Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak has crafted a show that is


era, with Mays playing all eight ill-fated members of the D’Ysquith clan. “Because my character systemati- cally goes about knocking off the people who are in line ahead of him, I’m killed eight times over the


course of two hours,” Mays said. However, the man of many deaths—and woman for that matter—couldn’t


be any happier to croak an average of every 20 minutes. “It’s exhilarating be- cause I get to play so many different characters. It’s very rare in theater you get to die a spectacular death and then play someone new,” he quipped, noting it’s great for someone with a short attention span such as himself. “I think it’s more athletic than artistic sometimes.” Some actors might find it difficult simultaneously singing and dancing,


Mays said in this production the costume changes—which occur in a matter of seconds in the dark backstage—sometimes trip him up. “I finish a scene, run off stage only to have my clothes ripped off of me by three muscular dressers, get zipped up into a new costume and then quite literally am shoved back on stage,” he said, admitting at times he’s not even quite certain of the role he’s in. “Sometimes they have to whisper into my ear who I am.” Despite all the doom and death, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is


a delightful story and theatrical celebration of every great American musical, according to Mays. “It’s rare that there are tunes one leaves the theater hum- ming, but this has many of them. For me, unfortunately, I seem to go home humming everybody else’s songs instead of my own so that I can be rehears- ing,” he remarked, concluding, “the music is sublime.”


Tickets to A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder start at $39 and can be purchased at the Box Office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park, by phone at 619.234.5623 or online at theoldglobe.org.


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