Bonnie & Clyde -- 1st Preview Today- Page 10
Bonnie & Clyde -- 1st Preview Today
SamIAm2
Featured Actor Joined: 3/10/09
#225Bonnie & Clyde -- better 2nd time
Posted: 11/12/11 at 3:54pmSomething that's exciting to me about this show is that it could result in exciting breakthroughs for a few of the people involved, maybe some awards too. Some may be hoping for a train wreck but I'm hoping for a celebration or two. I'm so looking forward to seeing the show in December.
Panerofan
Chorus Member Joined: 10/12/11
#226Bonnie & Clyde -- better 2nd time
Posted: 11/13/11 at 12:13am
"Some may be hoping for a train wreck but I'm hoping for a celebration or two."
Will never understand the mentality of hoping for a train wreck or celebrating when something closes!
#227Bonnie & Clyde -- better 2nd time
Posted: 11/13/11 at 2:33amAnyone see it tonight? Frank tweeted that there would be some changes starting Saturday night.
teko
Swing Joined: 11/13/11
#230
Posted: 11/13/11 at 10:39amI can't stop listening to the music from this. I reeeeeeally love it!
#231
Posted: 11/13/11 at 10:49amAgreed. I;ve have "You Love Who You Love" on repeat the last few days.
''With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town'' - Helena Bonham Carter
#232
Posted: 11/13/11 at 10:56amThe music is simply gorgeous. How 'Bout a Dance and Dying Ain't so Bad are my favorites.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
Actor2
Featured Actor Joined: 1/12/08
#234
Posted: 11/13/11 at 12:03pmMy friend Cassie Okenka is making her Broadway debut and going on as Bonnie this afternoon. If anyone's there, let us know how it goes!
#235
Posted: 11/13/11 at 12:22pm
Add me to the list. I really like this show! I didn't expect much for obvious (WILDHORN) reasons, but it's pretty damn great. Love the score. Jordan and Osnes are SO good in this.
I echo the Hobson opinions. He's miscast, imo. He's maybe a little too attractive and slick, and so I didn't feel much sympathy for his plight. He just didn't seem as hopelessly in love with Bonnie as he keeps telling us he is, so his song seems unnecessary and tacked on. They need someone a lot more vulnerable and heartbreaking to make that role work.
One other thing. Laura looks so beautiful in the wig on the poster and in the commercial. Then in the show, she has this cheap, flattened out wig in a horrible orangey-red color. She's so damn pretty, but that wig in the show makes her look odd and a little old. Maybe they're trying to make her look more like the real Bonnie shown in the projections, but why? None of the characters look like the real people in the projections. And that waitress uniform... she spends a lot of time in that, but it's sleeveless, (very strange and inaccurate to the period, imo). It just hangs on her like that cheap wig, and it does not flatter her AT ALL.
But if those are the only things I can pick apart about the show, that's pretty good. I loved it. I'd really like to see a smaller show like this become a big thing.
Updated On: 11/13/11 at 12:22 PM
littlebutterfly10
Understudy Joined: 5/3/09
#236
Posted: 11/13/11 at 12:26pm
^ All the best to Cassie in her debut!
I saw the show last night for the first time, so I can't comment on any of the changes that Frank had tweeted about. Having never seen a Wildhorn show on stage before, I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but went in with a lot of admiration for the two leads and came out extremely pleased. Both Mr. Jordan and Ms. Osnes are giving performances that should push them into the upper eschelon of Broadway talent. The music is very enjoyable and I left the theater with several songs that are sure to be stuck in my head for a while. Can't wait to go back.
While I didn't find act one to be particularly slow, I do agree that the show needs a bit of trimming. I wasn't a huge fan of giving the preacher's character two full songs (although the second one was rather catchy), and think that those spaces could have either been shortened, or given to the character of Ted. Seeing that we only hear him sing about his love for Bonnie, giving him a song about his abidance to the law might provide the contrast to Bonnie and Clyde's outlaw life that the church plot line tried to show.
Updated On: 11/13/11 at 12:26 PM
#237
Posted: 11/13/11 at 12:29pm^^Good point about expanding the Ted role, Butterfly. That would give him a struggle to work with.
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#238
Posted: 11/13/11 at 12:50pmI'm sure Cassie will be amazing as Bonnie, but it seems a bit strange that she's already going on so early in previews. I hope Osnes is doing alright.
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
#239
Posted: 11/13/11 at 12:52pmIt could very well be a planned absence.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#240
Posted: 11/13/11 at 12:57pm^True, and I hope so. I wish I were able to see Cassie in the role. I think she's extremely talented .
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#241
Posted: 11/13/11 at 1:01pm
Also Laura's been doing the role for 3 years, it's not like this is her 10th performance...
I hope someone lights a fire under Louis Hobson... I love his song he just sings it so unenthusiastically.
#242
Posted: 11/13/11 at 1:11pm
"I love his song he just sings it so unenthusiastically"
So true. And to further his detachment, he was smoking a cigarette during his song! The only thing missing was a cocktail in his other hand.
If he's supposed to be so upright and the opposite of Clyde, that touch didn't ring true.
#243
Posted: 11/13/11 at 1:15pm
Does anyone know how old Young Bonnie is supposed to be at the beginning of the show? Do they ever say the year? It seems like they have Young Bonnie starting out as maybe 12 or 13, singing about wanting to be the next Clara Bow and even referencing her as "The It Girl," but Bonnie was born in 1910 so if she's 12 or 13 that scene would have to be taking place in either 1922 or 1923 and Clara Bow was only starting out at that time winning her first photo competition in 1921.
Most biographies I’ve found credit the movie "It" for catapulting Clara Bow to stardom and that was released in 1927. That would have made Bonnie 17 which is quite a bit older than they seem to be portraying the Young Bonnie at the beginning of the show. Kelsey Fowler is actually 15, but even if Young Bonnie is supposed to be 15 at the begining of the show that's still two years before the release of "It" and Clara becoming known as "The It Girl."
#244
Posted: 11/13/11 at 1:32pm
I saw the show last night and really liked it though I tend to be a Wildhorn fan.
If any one has the demo, I'd be grateful if you could PM it to me.
"Why do you care what people might say? Why try to fit into their design?" (Side Show)
#245
Posted: 11/13/11 at 1:48pm
Regarding the Clara Bow timeline... Maybe the years don't match up exactly, but dramatization gets a little license, and we're only talking a few years off. Who better than the "It" Girl for Bonnie to idolize?
Which reminds me of one the best parts of the show I neglected to mention... the book. I never heard of Ivan Menchell, but the guy certainly knows how to write dialogue and construct drama. It's one of the best books of a musical I've seen in quite a while.
Praise also belongs to Jeff Calhoun for extremely simple but extremely clever direction. The staging of "God's Arms are Always Open", for instance, turns a standard gospel-style tune into an exciting account of Clyde's escalating career in crime. The song may not further the plot, but the staging of it does, in a big, and exciting, way.
Oh, and Melissa Van Der Schyff... WHAT a performance. When she first appears, you are expecting a stock comic relief portrayal. That is not what she delivers. Her range, from the hilarious one-liners to her shell-shocked moments at the end, is devastating. And that voice of hers just blew me away. There is nothing like watching a performance that suprises you at every turn. It's easy to imagine a lesser talent taking this role down the wrong road. I think this the kind of performance, and role, that the Featured Actress in a Musical Tony slot was created for.
Updated On: 11/13/11 at 01:48 PM
#246
Posted: 11/13/11 at 1:50pmI want to see Melissa Van Der Schyff in EVERYTHING from now on. That really is a Tony worthy performance she's giving.
littlebutterfly10
Understudy Joined: 5/3/09
#247
Posted: 11/13/11 at 2:00pmRegarding how old Young Bonnie is supposed to be, I believe there was a scene in the middle of the first song where she was arguing with her mother and mentioned that she was 15.
#248
Posted: 11/13/11 at 2:12pmSounds to me like there are plenty of Tony-worthy performances in this show - personally, I'm very much hoping for a win for Laura.
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