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

Booked for Manchester, haven’t seen the show before, so be good to see what everyone has been raving about.

Confession: I was dead tired and needed just to rest. Looking for a play, my H and I lucked into a matinee performance with seats in the front row ctr of the dress circle. I thought the show was terrific!

So I almost didn’t listen to this out of some misguided principle. The ludicrously slow launch with endless eyeroll emojis, teasers and announcements of announcements was next level tedious. Honestly, the effort it seems for them to get UK cast recordings out anyone would think they were tasked with solving world peace.

Anyway no point cutting off your nose to spite your face. So listened a few times since yesterday. It’s great! Slightly rougher around the edges than the OBC but with a greater grit and drive I’d say. Really lovely arrangements and orchestrations.

Jordan Luke Gage always slightly frustrates me as the seas of his screaming fangirls are a nightmare to sit amongst.

But he really does have a stunning voice. Not only perfect in pitch and tone but also has a purity and more than that a totally unique quality. Which amongst so many exceptional yet slightly generic MT voices is a wonderful thing. It’s a new ish revelation to me but I think I’d put him up there with Houchen as one of the best MT voices of this generation. I hope he goes on to great things and continues to improve his acting as he is a great leading man.

www.broadwayworld.com/westend/article/BONNIE-CLYDE-Producer-Dan-Looney-Dismissed-From-His-Own-Company-20230810

This is all very strange, his twitter account is deleted and no one at DLAP is saying anything further than a simple statement. He was a big part of the show and in promoting it. What happened?

All mention of his name and the fact that he was the literal CEO and co-founder of DLAP has been scrubbed from the website.

sometimes it’s best not to say anything and let the police get their case sorted first.

I like having a bit more of the dialogue.

I can't believe they changed the oboe in Dyin' Ain't So Bad though! It was really gorgeous, such a haunting sound. The clarinet they've replaced it with just isn't the same.

Kinda hoping it's Barney Wilkinson as Clyde. He really was brilliant. Jordan doesn't strike me as the touring type.

Looks like a bit like Charlie McCullagh with the stuble but he's doing the Jesus tour up into next year. I really did hope they would get someone from the London production to lead the tour.

Someone said it's Adam James Hatton

Looks like Sam ferriday

We don’t know that all the photos are of the actors playing Bonnie & Clyde though - it could be Buck and Blanche as well.

I saw someone say they thought the woman in the first picture looked like Catherine Tyldesley. Accounts that Alex James Hatton has recently followed on Instagram include Catherine and Sam Ferriday. Also Nate Landskroner, who has recently followed a lot of people involved with B&C.