In this hilarious Tony Award-winning musical, when Monty Navarro, a man of humble origins, discovers he is eighth in line to inherit an earldom in the distinguished D’Ysquith family, he realizes his chances of outliving these pesky relatives (all played by one actor!) are slim. So, he hatches a far darker plan of disposing of his unsuspecting relations without being caught in order to claim the title of Ninth Earl of Highhurst. All the while, he is also juggling romance in this uproarious musical comedy.
Lead Artistic Staff
Director––Amanda Berg Wilson
Music Director––Brad Carroll
Choreographer––Diana Dresser
Stage Manager––Tanya J. Searle^
Assistant Stage Manager––Kathryn Whilden
Production Assistant––CeCe Crook
Scenic Designer––Jo Winiarski
Costume Designer––K.L. Alberts
Lighting Designer––Jessica Greenberg
Sound Designer/Original Music Composer––Scott O’Brien
Voice/Text/Dialect Coach––Gwendolyn Schwinke
Fight/Intimacy Director––Jason Spelbring
Cast
In order of appearance
Ensemble––Zac Barnaby, Laura Brennan, Luke Sidney Johnson, Frank Oden, Mikki Pagdonsolan, Melinda
Parrett^
Miss Shingle––Melinda Parrett^
Monty Navarro––Rob Riordan^
Sibella Hallward––Katie Drinkard^
The D’Ysquith Family––Graham Ward^
Phoebe D’Ysquith––Nicole Eve Goldstein
Understudies
Zac Barnaby—The D’Ysquith Family; Laura Brennan––Sibella; Taya Christiansen†––Female ensemble swing; Luke Sidney Johnson––Monty Navarro; Jacob Lee––cover for conductor; Mikki Pagdonsolan––Phoebe; Spencer Watson––Male ensemble swing
^ Member of Actors’ Equity Association
A comedic musical with farcical and darkly humorous elements. The play explores love, class, and includes mild sexual innuendo and double entendres. While presented in a zany comedic and stylized manner, the show involves multiple murders as a central plot point.
