A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder Cast Recording?

Seeing it tomorrow night. I'm looking forward to it!

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Eddie Korbich told me after the matinee today that he is very excited for the upcoming recording session. "January 13th. It can't come fast enough for us!"

Agreed! I saw this gem of a musical last night and absolutely loved it. Fun. Charming. Magical. The production values all excellent, especially the costumes. (The sets, lighting and sound were all wonderful, but the costumes truly stood out.) The score is gorgeous and extremely well song. Everyone was just exemplary. It is my hope that this musical will "catch on" and find its audience. It is truly superb.

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Updated On: 12/12/13 at 12:20 PM

I wonder if they'll augment the orchestra for this recording. That seems to happen less and less, doesn't it? While I didn't care for the show or most of the score, I thought Jonathan Tunick's orchestration were absolutely lovely.

C.C... that is probably one of my new favorite songs!

Has anyone seen an option to preorder the hard copy and get the download right away? I really want to buy the physical CD, but I don't want to wait to hear it and I don't want to purchase twice...

PianoMann- you can listen to the music on YouTube. The tracks are on the official YouTube account for "Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder"
Gent's Guide on YouTube

I can't really answer because I saw the show first, but check out "I decided to Marry You." I love that song :) But maybe a visual would help.
Clip of "I've Decided to Marry You"

"Bryce Pinkham has such an appealing voice, I could probably enjoy listening to him sing anything. Good production quality and editing, too. Love it!"


I fully concede that I am in the (very small, it seems) minority on Gentleman's Guide. I think the NY Post's Elizabeth Vincentelli might be the only person who agrees with me.

I found the show cliched and amateurish and, with a couple of rare exceptions, painfully unfunny. I also found the score to be incredibly dull and mediocre with the exception of Jonathan Tunick's wonderful orchestrations. But even I can get behind that^ statement. I thought Pinkham was one of the most compelling leading men I've seen in a Broadway musical in years. Jefferson Mays, rather unfairly, gets all the attention for his showy role, but I think it's Pinkham who actually keeps this wobbly affair afloat. He just exudes charm, authority, a playfully dark side, and generates some genuine erotic heat with his leading ladies. Although his character's obviously a wicked, devious guy, there are also hints of a certain vulnerability he could deploy in other roles. And, yes, he has a great voice, too. I would love to one day see him in a better written show. I bet he'd do well with some Sondheim--he'd be a smashing Bobby in Company. I think he might even be able to pull off George in Sunday in the Park in a few years.

Updated On: 2/28/14 at 01:09 PM

^Depends on if Aladdin has enough new material to be eligible like Newsies was.

And thank the musical theatre overlords that his score is preserved by two sopranos who are anything buy bland and generic.

I just downloaded the score from ITunes and it arrived on my computer as TWO albums, each with about half of the song list, but not in order. (I.e., one download had songs 6, 8 and 18 through 23; the other had 1-5, 7 and 9 through 17.)

I solved the problem by creating a playlist and reassembling the song lists in order, but has this ever happened to anybody else? Anyone know why?