Catherine Walker Tapped to Star in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder on Broadway

Catherine Walker will take over from Lauren Worsham as Phoebe D’Ysquith in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, beginning performances on October 28. Walker is part of the original cast of the production, playing Miss Barley, as well as understudying the role she is about to assume. Sandra DeNise will join the Great White Way company to take over Walker’s current role. Worsham will play her final performance on October 26 at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

Walker has also appeared on Broadway in Mary Poppins and Ragtime. Other stage credits include The Sound of Music, Anything Goes, Phantom, Carousel, Show Boat and Brigadoon. DeNise comes to A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder directly from the original Great White Way cast of Kinky Boots.

The company currently additionally includes Jefferson Mays, Bryce Pinkham and Lisa O’Hare. As previously reported, Carole Shelley will also join the cast on October 28, taking over the role of Miss Shingle from Jane Carr.

Written by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder follows Monty Navarro (Pinkham), a long-lost member of a noble family who stands to become the next Earl of Highhurst—if he can eliminate the eight other relatives (all played by Mays) who precede him in line for the title. The tuner received four 2014 Tony Awards, including Best Musical.