BONNIE & CLYDE Reviews

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 3:37pm

Post 'em here!

[cviolett]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:18pm

Sending the whole cast and crew good vibes! I hope this show does well.

[roadmixer]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:21pm

Where is the whole "Today is Thursday Dec. 1st marking the opening night of (fill in the blank) blah blah blah" thing Mike?

[GatorNY]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:26pm

I'm just glad the Limelight Mike started a thread. Nothing against your thread RoadMixer, but it's a nice tradition.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:28pm

Let's try and keep this show positive, guys.

No negativity allowed here at BWW!

[bjh2114]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:30pm

Wall Street Journal is negative:

"'Bonnie & Clyde' isn't the worst musical to open on Broadway in the past decade. It isn't even the worst Frank Wildhorn musical to open on Broadway in the past decade. (That would be "Dracula.") It is, however, quite sufficiently bad enough to qualify for the finals of this year's What-Were-They-Thinking Prize. Why would anyone not obviously deranged put money into a show with music by a composer whose last three Broadway outings tanked? And who thought it was a good idea to write a commodity musical whose title gives the impression that "Bonnie & Clyde" is based (even though it isn't) on a 44-year-old movie that is no longer well remembered save by upper-middle-age baby boomers? Nor have Mr. Wildhorn and his feckless collaborators managed to beat these long odds: "Bonnie & Clyde" is so enervatingly bland and insipid that you'll leave the theater asking yourself why you ever liked musicals in the first place."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204449804577068644187657520.html

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:34pm

"a 44-year-old movie that is no longer well remembered save by upper-middle-age baby boomers."

Really??

[CukorLover]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:35pm

...and not one nice thing to say about "star in the making" Jeremy Jordan.

[philly03]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:43pm

Well that's disappointing... though not unexpected. Anyone who was expecting raves from the critics must have forgotten that Frank WIldhorn has not gotten any sort of majority of good reviews, even when his shows run for years. I think this will be a show kept up by positive word of mouth, which is, of course, how Frank has survived all these years anyway.

[denali.fire]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:43pm

We're cancelling our subscription to the WSJ.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:47pm

What a slaughtering.

[GatorNY]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:49pm

I thought they had to wait until the show started to start posting reviews.

[PopAria]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:52pm

.... NEXT.

Can't wait to read nyt

[Katurian2]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:56pm

They don't have to do anything. It's a courtesy, usually.

But this review is a bit reeking to be posted ahead of curtain, since much of it culls on past events, which is a bit of a cheap (even if it is Wildhorn) way to start a review of a new musical.

[broadway7117]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 4:59pm

A fear of mine was exactly this. That the reviews would focus more on Wildhorn and his past than Bonnie & Clyde..and especially the individual cast. Nothing about individual cast in this review.

[Patash]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:03pm

When a critic says "what were they thinking to do this?" what he's really saying is "there's no way in Hell I would ever admit I would like it even if were great since I think it was a terrible idea." So there's certainly no surprise in this review since he basically is saying "I knew I wouldn't like it". Period.

[littlebutterfly10]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:05pm

Exactly, broadway7117 and Patash. I honestly can't put too much stock into that "review," since it seems to be more a comment on the "Wildhorn culture," rather than the show itself.
Updated On: 12/1/11 at 05:05 PM

[NovaNurse7]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:06pm

Whoever wrote this review is coming off just a smidge biased. It doesn't even read like a review of the show, just a condemnation of Frank Wildhorn (which is one of my biggest fears regarding this show - that critical reception would be based on Wildhorn rather than the show itself).

But seriously - what part of titling the musical BONNIE & CLYDE "gives the impression that "Bonnie & Clyde" is based (even though it isn't) on a 44-year-old movie that is no longer well remembered save by upper-middle-age baby boomers?" That's some serious inference on three words there, pal.

I stopped taking the reviewer seriously after that sentence. I just hope the general public does the same.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:08pm

I've learned never to take Terry Teachout seriously. I just remember to myself, "He gave Cry-Baby a rave."

[WickedOne2]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:13pm

I hope B&C gets some good reviews. I saw it last Saturday and loved it. Laura and Jeremy were fantastic together.

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:32pm

The review is certainly disappointing. I think he was trying to ensure not a single word could be used for pull quotes. I agree that he seemed quite biased. When half your review isn't about the show itself and focuses on the composer's past and the movie (which the show says just about everywhere it isn't based off of), I don't think the review is very fair or even legitimate.

To suggest that the show MUST be based off of the movie is ludicrous. It's a historical event. Is every show about the Holocaust based off of its predecessors?

[Katurian2]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:33pm

whoawhoa- Let's not diss Cry-Baby here. That show had some serious merits. 'Screw Loose?' CLASSIC.

[Markecib]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:36pm

Wow that critic is awful. It seems he went in all ready knowing what he was going to write before even watching it.

I really liked the show and I hope to see an actual review of the show.

[kadu335]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:40pm

Terry Teachout usually gives pretty harsh reviews (from the ones I remember reading)... wasn't him who wrote the only really negative review of The Book of Mormon earlier this year?? I think it was him

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 12/1/11 at 5:42pm

Yep, that was him!