Bonnie And Clyde - Drury Lane/Arts Theatre/Garrick/Tour

I thought it was great. Really helped that I was familiar with the score having seen the concert a few months back. It’s a really tight piece of musical theatre writing with a very strong score. Definitely better than pretty much all the best new musical nominees at this years Oliviers for sure.
Was a splattering of empty seats yesterday, I’m sure word of mouth will pick up and it will have a fairly successful run.

Having gone to watch the show tonight, this really was a great night out. Having got the stalls J17 seat for £22.50 thanks to viserys’s post, this seat turned out to be a real bargain to watch this show. Going into the show with very little knowledge about it from a musical score point of view, those Act 1 numbers were each a belter and along with Act 2’s “Dyin’ Ain’t So Bad” a fantastic number, the show certainly won me over in no time at all. Those songs are certainly worth listening to again.

A great cast here been assembled here with all of them giving great performances and vocals. I loved Natalie McQueen as Blanche and her partnership with George Maguire as Buck provided some great comic moments, particularly in Act 1. Frances Mayli McCann and JLG’s partnership worked well and had real chemistry. A big shout out to the two youngsters - Finn Barwell and Aiya Augustin did a fantastic job in opening the show.

I thought the staging of the show was very effective great use of the video screen from designer Nina Dunn made great use of the ARTS theatre stage. It as a nice touch aduring the bows to bring out the entire 7 piece band to be included in the applause.

Overall, it was definitely worth taking a punt on this show. Rating 5⭐️

It can't extend unless it moves to another venue (unlikely) as another show is already booked at the Arts

I'm almost certain there are. I have vague recollections of a list of content warnings posted up on the door, but the only one I specifically recall is the rather oblique 'intimacy'. I'm sure guns/gunshots must have been on the list too.

I went this afternoon and I’m not quite sure what to make of it. Natalie McQueen was excellent and owned the show for me which must mean I feel a bit flat about the other leads. I only knew one song going in, ‘You Love Who You Love’, and I would have paid the ticket price to see that one song alone but, maybe because in this instance I had prior expectations, I was pretty disappointed with its performance.

I did find a couple of parts quite moving and liked the varying styles of the songs but I wanted to really love it and didn’t. There didn’t seem anything alluring about Clyde to me and no explanation as to why it took Bonnie 0.1 of a second to run off with him. First act seemed very long but was only just over an hour.

As an aside, the demographic of audience members was different to what I was expecting. I thought it would be people who remember the film from when it first came out, and there were quite a few people in that group, but there were also a lot of people who I would usually think of as fangirls in their late teens. Many of them had come alone so no shrieking except for a small one when Frances first came out. I’ve never been to a Sunday matinee before so maybe that’s why the demographic was different as I usually see things on a weeknight, or maybe it was Jordan Luke Gage. Anyway, not what I was expecting.

why? It's a brilliant show, can't wait to see it again

Has anyone got any details of if Jordan isn’t doing any particular shows each week? Looks like someone isn’t happy he isn’t doing a Sunday and he replied saying they will be seeing the alternate?

Can’t see an ‘alternate’ listed on the website or any details on the website to suggest he wouldn’t be doing all shows.

Bit naughty of them not to have it noted on the website somewhere, even if there wasn't a schedule they should be stating there's an alternate so people have their expectations set. I assume it's Barney Wilkinson?

Answering my own question - yes it's Barney and there's also Lauren Jones as alternate Bonnie on Tuesdays. And they really need to be making that clear somewhere (personally I hope to see both).

Saw today's matinee. Really enjoyed it! Didn't have any u/s.

There’s some good advance discounts for this on TodayTix right now for anyone who doesn’t want to risk rush, although I just picked up a rush ticket now and there’s still plenty left for tonight, so doesn’t seem to be a tricky one.
This doesn’t seem to be selling brilliantly in general, I was expecting (and I think they were hoping) for it to be almost selling out like Six and Heathers did in their small theatres, Six in this very venue of course. I thought it had a similar cult status to Heathers with young Broadway fans and the casting of Jordan and Frances as Heathers alumini would have helped too but I guess not as much as they hoped.