Casting has been announced for the first national tour of Tony-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, to kick off at Chicago's Bank of America Theatre next month after previewing in Schenectady, New York. John Rapson, recently of the Broadway revival of Les Misèrables, will take on the quick costume changes as the eight targeted members of the aristocratic D'Ysquith family, with current Gentleman's Guide Broadway understudy Kevin Massey as the murderous Monty Navarro.
The touring cast also includes Kristen Beth Williams (Sibella Hallward), Adrienne Eller (Phoebe D’Ysquith) and Mary VanArsdel (Miss Shingle), with the ensemble rounded out by Christopher Behmke, Sarah Ellis, Matt Leisy, Megan Loomis, Dani Marcus, Lesley McKinnell, Kristen Mengelkoch, David Scott Purdy, Chuck Ragsdale and Ben Roseberry. A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder plays the Bank of America Theatre September 29–October 11.