Theater: The musicals of Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel) are usually over the top with bombast and power anthems, but with Bonnie & Clyde, he seems to have learned how to tailor his music to fit the situation and characters. Of course, the story revolves around a pair of lovestruck petty bank robbers who become folk heroes during the Depression, played with high stakes by Bruno Faria and Jessica Brooke Sanford, with Slow Burn Theatre Co.’s director-choreographer Patrick Fitzwater doing his usual miraculous job with a young, mostly non-union cast. Through Feb. 8 at West Boca High School. Call 866-811-4111 for tickets.
Film: If you want to make some money on this year’s Academy Awards, place a bet on Julianne Moore to win the Best Actress statuette for her performance in Still Alice as a 50-year-old linguistics professor suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease. For starters, she is giving the best performance in the category, but almost as importantly she has lost four times previously and her role is exactly what the Oscars love to reward, a portrait of a debilitating medical condition. Moore absolutely lets us see inside Alice Howland’s head to her gradually increasing struggle with words and memories. Alec Baldwin and even Kristin Stewart lend credible support as Alice’s husband and younger daughter. In area theaters beginning this weekend.
Music: Not everyone will be watching the Seahawks and Patriots battle it out for football glory on Sunday. For years now, the Music at St. Paul’s series in Delray Beach has had a concert on Super Bowl Sunday, and this year it’s the Wellington-based violinist Gareth Johnson, accompanied by pianist Tao Lin. Both of these performers have appeared countless times before area audiences, and they’re presenting a can’t-miss program of music by Brahms, Tartini and Paganini. That means you can enjoy string acrobatics rather than ones on the gridiron. Football agnostics can gather at the church at 3 p.m. Sunday; tickets are $15-$20. Call 278-6003 for more information.
Meanwhile, at the same time at another Episcopal church not far away, one of the leading figures in jazz trombone comes to town to distract you from football. Wycliffe Gordon, winner in 2014 for the third year in a row of Downbeat’s critic’s poll as best jazz trombonist, comes to St. Gregory’s Episcopal near Mizner Park in Boca Raton for an afternoon of jazz in the company of pianist Eric Reed and organist Tim Brumfield. Gordon is one of those multifaceted performers and composers who make less energetic artists look like slackers; like his colleague Wynton Marsalis, Gordon is a tireless advocate for jazz as America’s native art music, and his 23 discs include Hello, Pops, a tribute to Louis Armstrong. Catch Gordon on Sunday at 3 p.m.; tickets are $40-$60; call 395-8285 or visit www.regonline.com/greatmusicatstgregorys.