80s cult classic HEATHERS THE MUSICAL is back in class this summer with new songs, new material and new classmates.
ARE YOU IN OR ARE YOU OUT?
HEATHERS THE MUSICAL
STRICTLY LIMITED RUN FROM 9 JUNE – 4 AUGUST 2018
STARRING WEST END SENSATION CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER
Following a rapturous response to our sell-out 2017 workshop in, 80s cult classic HEATHERS THE MUSICAL is back in class this summer with new songs, new material and new classmates. Produced by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor Mills, who produced the award-winning Carrie together in 2015, the musical premieres at The Other Palace on 9 June and runs for a limited 8 week season.
Based on one of the greatest teen films of all time, the 1988 classic starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. The award-winning writing team, Laurence O’Keefe (Legally Blonde, Bat Boy) and Kevin Murphy’s (Reefer Madness, Desperate Housewives) hit musical adaptation has enjoyed successful runs in Los Angeles and New York, and finally arrives in the UK for its European Premiere.
The writers, Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy, and director Andy Fickman said, “After the incredibly warm reception our workshop received at The Other Palace last year, we are hugely grateful to Bill, Andrew, and Paul for affording us a once in a lifetime opportunity to refine the book, add new songs, and re-imagine the staging for this show which has been such an extraordinary labour of love for us. ”
Accomplished musical theatre star, Carrie Hope Fletcher, will play Veronica Sawyer in this twisted tale of teen drama, friendship and deadly obsession. Fresh from her stint as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (Singapore and UK Tour), before which she played Eponine in Les Misérables in the West End for three years. She has also just released her debut album When the Curtain Falls.
Greetings, salutations. Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is so very a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day.
But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, her dreams finally start to come true.
Until JD turns up, the mysterious teen rebel who teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it’s murder being a somebody…
Heathers The Musical features a sensational new book, music and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe, exclusively written for this production whilst the team are in London. The musical is directed by acclaimed screen and stage director Andy Fickman with electrifying choreography by Gary Lloyd (Thriller Live, Carrie, 20th Century Boy), design by David Shields (Chess, Ice Age Live, End of the Rainbow) Lighting by Ben Cracknell (Young Frankenstein, Annie, La Cage Aux Folles) and Sound by Dan Samson (Evita, Cilla, Joseph).
