![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, the comedy is used in service of sarcastically skewering the high school ecosystem and its surroundings. Instead, they’re laid out for us to gleefully point and laugh at. And none of these issues are given anything close to a sensitive treatment. There’s teenage suicide, bullying, homophobia, slut shaming, fat shaming, sexual assault, eating disorders and blowing up of a school full of kids. I mean, c’mon, this is a story rife with present-day no-nos. ![]() I just couldn’t believe that such a glaringly politically incorrect story could find a place on a public stage in these times. Plus, the story was so over the top and campily surreal that a musical treatment seemed not so much a remake per se but rather a fabulous addition practically cried out for in the original story. After all, the morbidly dark comedy about high school peer pressure starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater was one of my teenage favorites. Note that high school and youth organizations may not produce the standard verison of Heathers they must apply for Heathers: High School Edition.“Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw.” The line is not only one of the most quoted quips from the 1989 movie Heathers, it also accurately describes my reaction upon hearing they were remaking the film into a 2014 Off Broadway musical (book, music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, best known for composing Legally Blonde, and Reefer Madness author Kevin Murphy). Note on high school edition: Adapted in collaboration with iTheatrics, this dynamic show is now widely available to be performed by high schools around the world. With its moving love story, laugh-out-loud comedy, and unflinching look at the joys and anguish of high school, Heathers will be New York’s most popular new musical. Heathers The Musical is a hilarious, heartfelt, and homicidal new show based on the greatest teen comedy of all time. has another plan for that bullet.īrought to you by the award-winning creative team of Kevin Murphy ( Reefer Madness, “Desperate Housewives”), Laurence O’Keefe ( Bat Boy, Legally Blonde) and Andy Fickman ( Reefer Madness, She’s the Man). When Heather Chandler, the Almighty, kicks her out of the group, Veronica decides to bite the bullet and kiss Heather’s aerobicized ass…but J.D. But before she can get comfortable atop the high school food chain, Veronica falls in love with the dangerously sexy new kid J.D. Heathers The Musical is the darkly delicious story of Veronica Sawyer, a brainy, beautiful teenage misfit who hustles her way into the most powerful and ruthless clique at Westerberg High: the Heathers. ![]()
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