One of the best shows my husband and I have ever seen. Brilliant!! The cast is amazing!!

The show features beautiful soprano voices in the female leads, wonderfully tight choreography and diction in the duets, trios and ensemble numbers, campy special effects put to great use and the tour de force representation of the entire D'Ysquith family (sequentially, some with 17 second costume changes) by James Taylor Odom. Great individual and ensemble performances across the board. Wonderfully entertaining from beginning to end.

A Gentleman's Guide is a must see. It is filled with an amazingly talented cast who are totally invested in their characters and each other. It is like they have been working together for years. The voices, the humor, the costumes, the set, the special effects, all lead to a very entertaining evening. A casting director's dream!!!

Saw this play in New York in 2014 and LOVED it so when we saw it was coming to Portland we bought tickets and travelled down from Vancouver...so disappointing...the actors were fabulous but from where we sat, the sound was so muddy that we missed almost all dialogue. We were sitting on the side in a box and I asked an usher if the sound was usually this bad...she said no, this play had particularly poor sound...we both agreed it needed sub-titles like opera.

We should have researched the show more than we did. If we had, we’d have known that it’s an operetta and very Gilbert & Sullivan, which neither of us cares for. We left after an hour that seemed interminable. If that’s your Jam, then buy the tickets. If not, best be warned.