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Tony winner A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder will launch tour in Chicago

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Kris Vire
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A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, the underdoggish winner of the 2014 Tony Award for best musical, will launch a national tour in Chicago this fall, representatives for Broadway in Chicago said this morning. The comic operetta, written by Broadway first-timers Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, will play the Bank of America Theatre for a relatively brief two-week run, September 29–October 11. (By contrast, the touring launch of Motown the Musical stayed 12 weeks in Chicago last summer, though the Gentleman's Guide producers have said the show's tour will be limited overall to 44 weeks.)

The show, in which a scoundrel attempts to speed up a family inheritance by offing the relatives who stand in his way, offers a particularly juicy quick-change role for the actor who plays eight of the targeted relatives; Jefferson Mays scored a Tony nomination for best actor as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for the Broadway production. Casting for the touring production remains to be announced.

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