When Chad Michael Murray was sent the script for “The Merry Gentlemen,” the Netflix movie about an amateur all-male musical revue that tries to save Christmas by rescuing a local diner, he gave an “immediate, terrified yes” — mostly because he hadn’t done anything that scared him in years. And then he hit the gym. […]

To describe “The Merry Gentlemen” as “The Full Monty” meets a Christmas-themed Hallmark movie might be overselling the goods. However, that’s essentially the elevator pitch for this feature, in which a big-city dancer returns to her small town to save her parents’ concert venue by having hunks go shirtless on stage. Yet director Peter Sullivan […]