By Pat Jenkins The Dispatch If you subscribe to the belief that live theater is a place to escape daily life and the onslaught of keep-you-awake-at-night world and national events, then The Fifth Avenue Theatre is where you need to go for the mind-freeing escapist entertainment of "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.GÇ¥ This hysterical Broadway musical that won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Musical will have audiences laughing like hyenas the rest of the run that started July 12 and ends July 31. Put it this way: If you can't find this show funny, you just don't have a sense of humor. Everything about it is a hoot, but John Rapson gets the lion's share of the credit. He is absolutely brilliant playing eight parts (yes, eight), each one outrageously funny. The central character is Monty Navarro, played by Kevin Massey. Monty goes in grisly but comedic fashion from down on his luck to financial and social prominence after discovering that he's ninth in line to become the next Earl of Highhurst. To lay claim to the D'Ysquith family fortune, he manages to get eight colorful (to say the least) relatives out of his way GÇô hence the show's title. The relatives have a lot unlikable traits, so it's easy to root for Monty while seeing them bumped off in creative ways. And it's even easier to have an evening of unbridled laughter. Who can't use some of that? (Tickets and information: 5thavenue.org).
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