La Jolla Playhouse Blog

Stark Sands and Laura Osnes as Bonnie & Clyde;
photo by Craig Schwartz.

As some of you may know, our world premiere musical Bonnie & Clyde is opening on November 10th. Our cast and crew have been working hard to bring the notorious outlaw couple’s story to the stage and we wanted to give you a little sneak peek at what is currently going on behind the scenes of the next big Playhouse hit.

While the shootouts are kept to a minimum, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow still land a few unfortunate shots at the unlucky people who get in their way. Here are a couple of brief demonstrations of the blood effects used in Bonnie & Clyde. Don’t worry, no prop personnel were harmed in the making of these videos!

And to transport us to West Dallas in the 1930’s, scenic designer Tobin Ost created these set models to invoke the poverty-stricken dust bowl in which our story takes place.

BONNIE & CLYDE Set Model 1

BONNIE & CLYDE Set Model 2

To see all of this in person, join us for previews, which start next week on November 10th!