"Let's Have A Drink, It's Foolish To Think You'll Ever Stop Loving Her"

I think I'll finish the list of 2014 Tony Award Nominees for Best Musical with A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.  

This musical is actually pretty hard to find the full synopsis, but I'm liking its soundtrack! From what I can understand, this about a guy in 1909 London named Monty Navarro who discovered he's a part of this D'Ysquith (pronounced dyesquith) family on his mother's side--in this family, he's ninth in line to inherit a dukedom so he results to eliminating the eight heirs before him so he can claim it, and ends up attracting two women and cannot decide which one to marry. It's very perky and upbeat, despite its theme of greed and death.

The show has ten Tony Award Nominations (some categories have two different nominations): 

1. Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical (Robert L. Freedman), 
2. Best Original Score (Music: Steven Lutvak, Lyrics: Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak), 
3. Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Jefferson Mays [D'Ysquith family] and Bryce Pinkham [Monty Navarro]), 
4. Best Performance by a Featuring Actress in a Musical (Lauren Worsham [Phoebe D'Ysquith), 
5. Best Direction of a Musical (Darko Tresnjak), 
6. Best Orchestrations (Johnathan Tunick), 
7. Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Alexander Dodge), and 
8. Best Costume Design of a Musical (Linda Cho)

Jefferson Mays amazes me--he plays the D'Ysquith family (Asquith D'Ysquith Jr, Lord Adalbert D'Ysquith. Reverend Lord Ezekial D'Ysquith, Lord Asquith D'Ysquith Sr., Henry D'Ysquith, Lady Hyacinth D'Ysquith, Major Lord Bartholomew D'Ysquith, and Lady Salome D'Ysquith Pumphrey).  That's an awful lot of people to portray. 

I would never want to be in the show (the women in this show are great operatic sopranos) but it would be fun to watch and work backstage!

Deciding for this post's clip has been really hard because the show has a lot of catchy songs--simple and done before, but they're pretty entertaining to listen to--I could possibly post on here. Alas, I can only pick one so I will choose..... "Foolish To Think," a song sung entirely by Monty Navarro (Bryce Pinkham aka my favorite male singer now). It's simple and cute. But if you want to listen and fall in love with the Broadway soundtrack, here's the YouTube link for it: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGA_rouGAHXbcV02UDT0a9rDQzdZTgPyM Some of my personal favorites are this song, "Sibella", "I've Decided To Marry You", and "Stop! Wait! What?"