In the Garden Theatre provides a look at America's most notorious couple in Bonnie & Clyde.
But if you’re familiar with the musical, which premiered on Broadway in 2011, the show’s director, Logan Vaden, says The Garden Theatre’s production will be a little different, a little more twinkly toed.
“Bonnie, as a real human obviously and in the show itself, aspires to be a movie star, and so that really pulls out that desire even more because it mimics a lot of the things she would have seen in the movies at the time,” says Vaden. “It just pulls out the want and the longing, which makes it even a little bit more crushing once we get to the end.”
Jackie Cortina will play the role of Bonnie opposite Austin Colburn as Clyde, and Vaden calls them both “true triple threats.” Vaden was so sure Colburn would be a perfect Clyde that before the pandemic, the two talked about trying to find a theater that would let them mount the show. Within 15 minutes, however, Vaden said the conversation went in a different direction.
Though putting the production together has had its difficulties, Vaden credits the help they have received from other local theater companies. For example, when they were looking for realistic, time-specific guns, another theater company that previously produced“It’s been so challenging, but the beautiful part of it is that our Houston theater community has stepped up and has helped us along the way,” says Vaden.
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