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| Osnes and Sands Are La Jolla's Bonnie & Clyde; Winningham and Van der Schyff Also Cast By Kenneth Jones 13 Jul 2009 Laura Osnes, the actress known for musical sweetheart roles — Sandy in Grease and Nellie Forbush in South Pacific — will be pistol-packin' in the new Frank Wildhorn-Don Black musical, Bonnie & Clyde, to co-star Broadway's Stark Sands, of Journey's End. The fresh-faced young performers (she is currently starring in Lincoln Center Theater's South Pacific, he just played Sebastian in the acclaimed Twelfth Night in Central Park) will play Depression-era American criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. A production source confirmed that Mare Winningham (Off-Broadway's 10 Million Miles) will play Bonnie's mother and Melissa van der Schyff (Deaf West's Big River) will be Clyde's sister-in-law. La Jolla Playhouse will produce the world premiere musical Bonnie & Clyde — by Tony Award-nominated composer Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel), Tony-winning lyricist Black (Sunset Boulevard, Song and Dance) and book writer Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) — Nov. 10-Dec. 20 in the Mandell Weiss Theatre in La Jolla, CA. Jeff Calhoun (Deaf West's Big River) will direct. No official casting announcement has been made; more casting is expected. Here's how La Jolla bills the musical: "Stuck in a dead-end job in Texas in the 1930s, young Bonnie Parker falls in love with Clyde Barrow, a charismatic criminal on the run from the law. Their love affair soon spirals out of control, as Bonnie & Clyde commit a series of bank robberies while staying one step ahead of the authorities. But as their notoriety — and body count — rises, the ill-fated lovers find themselves racing to the top of the Public Enemies list…with a bullet." |
