Bonnie And Clyde The Musical Analysis

Heart Stolen by Bonnie and Clyde the Musical On March 5th 2017, I attended the production of Bonnie and Clyde the Musical at the Albert L. Jeffers Theatre at the Univerisity of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Having been already familiar with the basic premise of the story of some of the two most notorious criminals in the history of the United States, I was curious to see how the lives of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrel were reimagined by this musical. In this production of the show, I was pleased to find that the UTRGV theatre department gave a profound level depth to the musical by Ivan Menchell, as they guided me through the story of how the son of a farmer and a young waitress fell in love with each other, and out of favor with the law. UTRGV’s
The playwright did an excellent job in writing the characters of this play as a whole, having accurately created characters with a realistic level of complexity, since they were based off of people who lived during the Great Depression. However, the characters outside of Bonnie and Clyde’s immediate circles served as more symbolic roles, in order to represent how an ordinary person would have coped during the economic crisis, such as the virtuous preacher played by Victoria Cantu and the members of the ensemble, who had brief but meaningful interactions with the leading roles. Their purpose, as was intended by the playwright, served to mix an air of comedy into the serious message of the play, it being that people go to many lengths to maintain the station of life of those they care about. In this way, I am sure that many young men such as myself who take on great challenges, such as going to university, could relate to a character like Clyde Barrel, whose older self was portrayed by Julian Ramirez, and who sacrificed much in the name of those who he