Arts & Entertainment
Kokandy Productions Presents BONNIE & CLYDE - Chicago Premiere Musical!
August 27 – October 15, 2017 at Theater Wit
Kokandy Productions is pleased to continue its 5th anniversary season with the Chicago premiere of BONNIE & CLYDE, the musical story of two small-town nobodies searching for meaning at the height of the Great Depression from the creative team of Frank Wildhorn, Ivan Menchell and Don Black. Directed by Spencer Neiman, with music direction by Allison Hendrix and choreography by Aubrey Adams, BONNIE & CLYDE will play August 27 – October 15, 2017 at Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago. Tickets are currently available at www.kokandyproductions.com, by calling (773) 975-8150 or in person at the Theater Wit Box Office.
BONNIE & CLYDE will feature Desiree Gonzalez as Bonnie, Max DeTogne as Clyde, Missy Wise as Blanche and Cisco Lopez as Buck. The cast also includes Patrick Tierney as Ted, Nathan Carroll as Preacher, Tia L. Pinson as Young Bonnie, Jeff Pierpoint as Young Clyde and Sarah Hayes as Emma, with an ensemble including Brittney Brown, Erin Creighton, Ann Delaney, Jacob Fjare, Jon Patrick Penick, Maisie Rose and Jonathan Schwart.
BONNIE & CLYDE centers on real-life Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the ill-fated lovers and outlaws whose story has been infamous since they achieved folk hero status at the height of the Great Depression. Fearless, shameless and alluring, the Tony Award-nominated musical from the legendary Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, Civil War, Dracula) is the electrifying story of love, adventure and crime that captured the attention of an entire country, with a non-traditional score featuring blues, gospel and rockabilly music.
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The world premiere of BONNIE & CLYDE was presented at La Jolla Playhouse in 2009, and transferred to Broadway in 2011. There, it was nominated for three Outer Critics Circle Awards and five Drama Desk Awards (both including Best New Musical), as well as two 2012 Tony Awards nominations.
The production team for BONNIE & CLYDE includes: Ashley Ann Woods (scenic design), Robert S. Kuhn (costume design), Alexander Ridgers (lighting design), Michael J. Patrick (sound design), Jaq Seifert (violence/intimacy design), Lindsay Brown (production manager) and Kait Samuels (stage manager).
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PRODUCTION DETAILS:
Title: BONNIE & CLYDE
Book: Ivan Menchel
Music: Frank Wildhorn
Lyrics: Don Black
Director: Spencer Neiman
Music Director: Allison Hendrix
Choreographer: Aubrey Adams
Cast: Brittney Brown (Stella), Nathan Carroll (Preacher), Erin Creighton (Cumie), Ann Delaney (Trish), Max DeTogne (Clyde), Jacob Fjare (Bud), Desiree Gonzalez (Bonnie), Sarah Hayes (Emma), Cisco Lopez (Buck), Jon Patrick Penick (Henry), Jeff Pierpoint (Young Clyde), Tia L. Pinson (Young Bonnie), Maisie Rose (Eleanor), Jonathan Schwart (Sheriff), Patrick Tierney (Ted) and Missy Wise (Blanche).
Location: Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago
Dates: Previews: Sunday, August 27 at 7 pm, Monday, August 28 at 7 pm, Thursday, August 31 at 8 pm and Friday, September 1 at 8 pm
Press performance: Saturday, September 2 at 8 pm
Regular run: Sunday, September 3 – Sunday, October 15, 2017
Curtain Times: Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8 pm; Sundays at 3 pm. Please note: there will be added matinee performances on Saturday, September 30 at 3 pm, Saturday, October 7 at 3 pm and Saturday, October 14 at 3 pm.
Tickets: Previews $25. Regular run $33 - $38. Tickets are currently available at www.kokandyproductions.com, by calling (773) 975-8150 or in person at the Theater Wit Box Office.
About The Creative Team
Spencer Neiman (Director) returns to Kokandy Productions, previously working as a director with the company's New Works Initiative. Credits include work with The Hypocrites, Griffin Theatre Company, Windy City Playhouse, co-founder/director of site-specific, new work event series party/theater/party and associate director for Million Dollar Quartet on Norwegian Cruise Lines. Spencer has recently gotten involved in local politics and serves as the Volunteer Outreach Coordinator for Ameya Pawar's gubernatorial campaign. Proud Northwestern graduate.
Allison Hendrix (Music Director) is the Producing Artistic Director and a founding member of Kokandy Productions. Previous Kokandy credits include: Loving Repeating (Jeff Nomination – Direction – Musical), Assassins (“Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme”), The Last Five Years (“Cathy,” Jeff Nomination – Principal Actress in a Musical) and The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Music Director). Other credits include: "Amy" in Company (Writers Theatre), “The Baker’s Wife” in Into the Woods (The Hypocrites), “Jimmi” and Music Director in Cities of Light (Piven Theatre Workshop), Associate Music Director/Conductor for Floyd Collins (Boho Theatre), Music Director for Zanna, Don’t (Bailiwick) and Music Director and recipient of NIETF Award for Best Vocal Direction for Floyd Collins (Towle Theatre). Allison also works with the Chicago Academy for the Arts, as a Teaching Artist with Broadway in Chicago, and as a vocal coach and accompanist for the Music Theatre program at Northwestern University.
Aubrey Adams (Choreographer) is a Chicago performer and choreographer, whose choreography was recently Jeff nominated for BoHo Theatre’s production of Urinetown. Other recent credits include associate choreographer for Trevor at Writers Theatre, assistant choreographer for Mamma Mia and A Christmas Story at The Paramount Theatre.
About Kokandy Productions
Kokandy Productions seeks to leverage the heightened reality of musical theater to tell complex and challenging stories with a focus on contributing to the development of Chicago-based musical theater works while raising the profile of Chicago’s storefront musical theater community. Kokandy Productions is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, charitable organization.
The company's artistic staff is comprised of John D. Glover (Artistic Producer), Allison Hendrix (Producing Artistic Director), Scot T. Kokandy (Executive Producer) and Kory Danielson (Resident Music Director).
For additional information, visit www.kokandyproductions.com.
TOP PHOTO CREDIT: (front, l to r) Max DeTogne as Clyde and Desiree Gonzalez as Bonnie with (back, l to r) Tia L. Pinson as Young Bonnie and Jeff Pierpoint as Young Clyde in Kokandy Productions’ Chicago premiere musical BONNIE & CLYDE. Photo by Evan Hanover.
