Riverside Theatre is knocking ’em dead with a brightly polished and darkly funny production of “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Best Musical of 2014.
Set in the London of 1907, the story begins in the prison cell where Montague “Monty” Navarro awaits the verdict in his trial for multiple murders. It soon flashes back to his late mother’s wake in their humble flat.
His mother’s long-ago friend arrives with a fantastic tale: Monty’s mother was outcast from her aristocratic family when she chose to marry his socially unsuitable Castilian father. Turns out that she was – and he is – an heir to the vast D’Ysquith fortunes, and he is eighth in line for the title of the Earl of Highhurst…