The lights go down, and suddenly the sound of a round of gunshots echoes through the theater. A voiceover introduces the play, and then spotlights swirl around the stage before we’re introduced to our main characters for the first time Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The Pioneer Theatre Company’s production of “Bonnie &.
A musical theater version of the infamous pair’s ill-fated life together is brought to life in a highly romanticized, tuneful and fast-paced production of the Frank Wildhorn-Don Black-Ivan Menchell Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde, which played just a month on the Main Stem, but has since enjoyed a successful run in the United Kingdom and in American regional theater. Now onstage through Sunday, February 18, at Lebanon’s Capitol Theatre and directed by Angie Dee for Audience of One Productions, Bonnie and Clyde offers audiences a rip-roarin’ good time, featuring superb performances from the company’s stable of stars.
Frank Wildhorn and Don Black score enables TheatreZone to delve into the influences that prompted Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow to embark on robbery and killing spree that led to their untimely, bullet-riddled demise.