Bronco Billy: The Musical review – Clint Eastwood inspires misfiring caper

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Bronco Billy: The Musical review – Clint Eastwood inspires misfiring caper

Charing Cross theatre, LondonHunter Bird’s often madcap production, based on the 1980 western, has anodyne songs and lacks the film’s weathered perspectiveBronco Billy is one of Clint Eastwood’s ropier westerns, from a time when he was sending up his Man With No Name persona. Released in 1980, in between two comedies where his co-star was an orangutan called Clyde, the film follows a grizzled sharpshooter whose ramshackle wild west troupe provid…