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A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Dramaturgy Website
A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
Dramaturgy Website
Robert L. Freedman/ Steven Lutvak
The writers behind A Gentleman's Guide
Robert L. Freedman
Born July 27th, 1957 got an early start with his writings in high school as he was an editor of the Los Alamitos High School's (California) paper. After high school, he attended University of California for undergrad then furthering his studies at NYU in Dramatic Writing and Musical Theatre Writing.
Early on in his career, he found fame with his work with A Deadly Secret: The Robert Biere Story. This TV movie ended up making Freedman the 1994 Writers Guide of America Award for an Outstanding Television Children's Show. Three years later, Freedman would work on the 1997 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.
Theatrical Works of Freedman
Grand Duchy
Campaign of the Century
The Beast of Broadway: The Life and Times of Dacid Merrick
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Campo Rock The Musical
Other Works of Freedman
Broadway Sings: The Music of Jule Styne (1987)
Woman With A Past (1992)
Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001)
The Pastor's Wife (2011)
Steven Lutvak
Born Jult 18, 1958, Steven grew up in New York and attended his undergrad at Binghamton University getting a bachelors in music in 1980. He then went on to the Tisch School of Arts, being one of the first graduate class in 1983.
Making his Broadway debut as a composer and co-lyricist of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, his collaborations with Freedman was just the start on his journey of composing and writing music and plays.
He is best known for Gentleman's Guide, but his other works include writing music for Mad Hot Ballroom, The Wayside Inn, Esmeralda, and Almost September. He also released two of his own album: The Time it Takes and Ahead of My Heart.
Unfortunately, Lutvak died in October 2023 at the age of 64 from pulmonary embolism, a blocked artery in the lung. His husband, Michael McGowan, still carries on Lutvak's legacy of his works while raising their teenage daughter alone while still memorializing the death of a father and a husband.
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