Wildhorn's Bonnie & Clyde Takes Aim at Broadway

Frank Wildhorn’s Bonnie & Clyde is eyeing a move to Broadway in 2011, according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. The musical, which is currently running at Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida, stars Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan as the infamous outlaw couple and is directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun.

"We're planning to go to Broadway in August. We're going to Broadway, absolutely,"  Broadway producer Jerry Frankel is quoted as saying. A summertime opening would avoid a conflict with the Broadway bow of Wonderland, another Wildhorn musical set to open at the Marquis Theatre in April.

In addition to music by Wildhorn, Bonnie & Clyde features lyrics by Don Black and a book by Ivan Menchell. The show has reportedly been revised since its first mounting in 2009 at the La Jolla Playhouse in California, starring Osnes and American Idiot leading man Stark Sands.

As previously reported, a second Bonnie and Clyde musical is being developed with a score by Rick Crom and a book by Hunter Foster. A reading of that show took place on September 10 starring Sutton Foster and Will Swenson, directed by Lonny Price.

Wildhorn's Bonnie & Clyde will run at Asolo Repertory Theatre through December 19. A theater and other details related to a Broadway transfer of the show have not been announced.