‘Bonnie and Clyde’ Makes Folk Heroes of Killers: Jeremy Gerard
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Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker had little to recommend them as citizens worthy of a Broadway musical. They killed anyone who got in their way during a bank-robbing spree around the Midwest in the heart of the Great Depression.
We can’t all be Mary Poppins. Frank Wildhorn’s “Bonnie and Clyde,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, has catchy songs, a fleshed out story and plenty of heart thanks to the snazzy direction by Jeff Calhoun and a design team that invokes the period in broad but astute strokes.