Pagosa Springs audiences, get ready: the final production of this summer’s repertory season is about to take the stage, and it’s dressed to kill.
Opening Friday, June 27, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder marks the third and final opening in the 2025 repertory season at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts. Part period farce, part comic opera, part high-stakes body count, the show delivers fast-paced entertainment with elegance, edge, and a murderous sense of humor.
At the center of it all is Trevor Brown as Monty Navarro, a modest young man with a recently discovered link to nobility and a long line of relatives standing between him and a fortune. Brown guides Monty’s increasingly “pragmatic” rise through the family tree with charisma, wit, and vocal finesse.
But the real jaw-dropper? Dan Morrison, who plays all eight doomed members of the D’Ysquith family. In a role that defies logic and challenges the laws of quick change, Morrison becomes everything from a bloated banker to a sanctimonious reverend to an overly dramatic actress each with distinct voices, gaits, and grotesqueries. Watching him shift at lightning speed is not just impressive… it’s worth the price of admission on its own.
And he’s doing it in some truly grand attire.
The costumes for this production come directly from the North American national tour of A Gentleman’s Guide, filling a 20-foot transportation truck with Edwardian splendor. Nearly half of that wardrobe is worn by Morrison alone, making every entrance a fresh spectacle of feathers, bustles, and tailored absurdity.
Dan Morrison and Trevor Brown barely leave the stage in the whirlwind Yjongamjig production of ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder… and with this many deaths and double-crosses, why would they?
Directed by Andrew Barratt Lewis and featuring musical direction by Dominic Girolami, the production brings a crisp comic sensibility to the intricately plotted tale. The visuals dazzle, the lyrics bite, and the timing is tuned within an inch of its life.
Gentleman’s Guide joins the already-running Something Rotten! – a zany Elizabethan- era musical bursting with Broadway self-awareness, and Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, a darkly lush tale of jazz-age decadence and desire. All three shows run in repertory through August 30, offering locals and visitors a rare opportunity to catch multiple high-caliber productions performed in rotation by a cast of seasoned professionals.
This weekend’s opening is the last “first night” of the season—-but it may just be themost delightfully diabolical. Secure your seats before someone else snatches your spot. Preferably not with poison!
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and all summer repertory productions are available online, here, or by calling 970-731-SHOW (7469).