Bonnie & Clyde (West End) London Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (351)
See it if You love amazing songs. Gritty story lines
Don't see it if You don’t like musicals
See it if A really wonderful music with a very strong score. This production had a fantastic cast
Don't see it if You aren't a Frank Wildhorn fan, although this score may surprise you!
See it if A great story, with great acting and singing. A well written musical
Don't see it if As others have said it needs tidying up
See it if The pair give strong performances, the music has reached cult status, what is not to love about this show.
Don't see it if The show has been minimised a bit for the Arts theatre, but that honestly has strengthened the material.
See it if you’d love an excellent musical theater take on some superstar olden days criminals.
Don't see it if you don’t like shows about criminals?
See it if Thrilling, wild, criminals seeking fame and notoriety. True story, The Great Depression Outstanding cast!
Don't see it if ….depicts violence/references abuse
See it if You are not bothered about the excuses made for the criminal duo. It's got great music and visuals.
Don't see it if You are into light musicals
See it if You like a great musical theatre score!
Don't see it if You want extremely high production values.
Critic Reviews (14)
“Too glib to be serious and too po-faced to be a spoof, this Broadway musical about the Depression-era outlaw couple suffers from a criminal lack of focus...It’s just another bouncy, breezy, brainless musical trading on a bit of name-recognition.”
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“ ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ feels weirdly oblivious to the reasons why Parker and Barrow are still famous a century on...But if this rose-tinted musical romance was all we had to remember them by, I’m sure their memory would soon expire from sheer boredom.”
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“We get terrific musicianship and singing, imaginatively murky period design by Philip Whitcomb, in fact tip-top professionalism all round, but without enough substance to fire up the imagination.”
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"A show as sensational as this deserves a permanent home in the West End for an open-ended run. But with a show this phenomenal, I’ll take what I can get. After all, a short and loving run ain’t so bad. It really would be a crime to miss this killer show."
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“If there is a palatable musical route into the ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ story, then neither Winston, Wildhorn nor the rest of creative team have discovered it.”
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“While thematically richer than most musicals, Menchell’s plot lines are slightly meandering, though director Nick Winston whips up a sharp pace that cracks through the tragic twosome’s murderous time, never unnecessarily alighting.”
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“All the audience needed to see was a smoking gun and that was enough for a night of whooping and hollering. But, for a show with so much potential, it's all too posed and predictable.”
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"The production as a whole may be slightly flawed but that doesn’t take away from the many explosive and frankly breathtaking moments it exudes."
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