Tony Nominee Bryce Pinkham Plots Return To Broadway’s ‘A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder’

EXCLUSIVE: Bryce Pinkham, Tony-nominated for the role he originated in the 2014 Best Musical A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder, will return to the role of scheming heir Monty Navarro on July 28.

“I am positively rhapsodic over the prospect of returning to Highhurst Castle,” Pinkham told Deadline. “I am particularly overjoyed to be reunited with my hero and partner(s) in crime, Jefferson Mays. By the way, do the D’Ysquiths know I’m coming back? I bet they’ll be tickled to death.”

The Broadway production holds the house records at the Walter Kerr Theatre for both the highest single-week gross ($1,062,740.60 over eight performances on the week ending December 28, 2014) and total cumulative gross, currently almost $60 million. Gentleman’s Guide opened to overwhelming critical acclaim on November 17, 2013. It recently was announced that Gentleman’s Guide will launch its first national tour in September.

The producers, more numerous than the show’s victims, are Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, 50 Church Street Productions, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Catherine & Fred Adler, Rhoda Herrick, Kathleen K. Johnson, Megan Savage, Shadowcatcher Entertainment, Ron Simons, True Love Productions, Jamie deRoy, Four Ladies & One Gent, John Arthur Pinckard, Greg Nobile, Stewart Lane & Bonnie Comley, Exeter Capital/Ted Snowdon, Ryan Hugh Mackey, Cricket-CTM Media/Mano-Horn Productions, Dennis Grimaldi/Margot Astrachan, Hello Entertainment/Jamie Bendell, Michael T. Cohen/Joe Sirola, Joseph & Carson Gleberman/William Megevick and Robert Greenblatt, in association with The Hartford Stage and the Old Globe Theatre.