Bonnie & Clyde Musical to Now Conclude La Jolla Playhouse’s 2009 Season

The La Jolla Playhouse has finalized its 2009 season, replacing the previously announced musical The Big Time with a new musical Bonnie & Clyde, to run November 10-December 20. The show, to be directed by Jeff Calhoun, will have music by Frank Wildhorn, lyrics by Don Black, and a book by Ivan Menchell. No casting has been announced.

The season will begin with Terrence McNally’s Unusual Acts of Devotion (June 2-28), about five neighbors in a Greenwich Village apartment building. It will be followed by the world premiere of Claudia Shear’s Restoration (June 23-July 19), directed by Christopher Ashley, in which Shear will play an art restorer who’s hired to work on Michelangelo’s “David.”

Next up, Roger Rees will direct the Tom Cone-Ellen Fitzhugh-Skip Kennon multi-character solo musical Herringbone, starring Tony Award winner B.D. Wong (August 1-30), to be followed by Maria Aitken’s production of Alfred Hitchock’s The 39 Steps (August 11-September 13), and Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s classic drama Creditors (September 19-October 25).

The theater’s EDGE series will feature Basil Twist’s Dougeashi (June 10-14) and Hoover: Tanned, Rested and Ready to Rock by Sean Cunningham and Michael Friedman, directed by Alex Timbers (September 8-13).

For tickets and information, call 858-550-1010 or visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org.