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A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO HEATHERS THE MUSICAL
BY Katie Vicary
I know for many people seeing the word ‘musical’ either attracts you or puts you off a bit, but hear me out.
With the sheer number of musicals out there now, I truly believe there is something for everyone.
One of my personal favourites is Heathers the Musical. Based off the black comedy cult classic of the alike name, Heathers follows steep school senior, Veronica Sawyer, a bright girl who longs to be fresh who finds her way into the most mighty clique at school. Before she can get content at the top of the social ladder, she falls for the perilous new kid JD and gets kicked out of the group, which just leads to trouble for the entire school. It shares similarities with many high school films - think along the lines of Mean Girls, except Heathers was made about 20 years earlier and has far darker humour, some violence and death.
Heathers the Musical is described as a ‘rock musical’ with music, lyrics and book written by Laurence ‘Larry’ O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy. The musical contains impressive vocals, witty and often ‘inappropriate’ lyrics as well as entire instrumentals. Whilst mostly a h
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If you possess been following my blog recently, you will realize we have had a busy summer of seeing musicals, taking full edge of the “kids leave free” offer.
One musical that Eliza had been desperate to see was Heathers The Musical, which we didn’t think was on, but a chance tweet saw that it was on tour and heading to King’s Theatre, Portsmouth.
Eliza adores musicals, she wore pink to see Express Girls, but for Heathers she dressed as her favourite character, Veronica, and I have never seen her as excited to see a musical as she was this.
Based on the black comedy cult classic of the identical name, Heathers’ follows high school senior, Veronica Sawyer, a shiny girl who longs to be cool who finds her way into the most powerful clique at school – The Heathers, until JD turns up, the mysterious teen rebel who teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder entity a somebody.
Jenna Innes is spectacular as Veronica and Keelan McAuley as JD is wonderfully psychopathic as the troubled teen.
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The setup:
“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, harmony and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, leading known for composing Legally Blonde, and Reefer Madness author Kevin Murphy). Don’t obtain me wrong; I loved the plan. After all, the morbidly dark comedy about high college peer pressure starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater was one of my teenage favorites. 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.
So why the profane toolshed surprise?
I just couldn’t trust that such a glaringly politically incorrect story could locate a place on a public stage in these times. I mean, c’mon, this is a story rife with present-day no-nos. There’s teenage suicide, bullying, homophobia, slut shaming, fat shaming, sexual assault, eating disorders and blowing up of a university full of kids. And none of these issues are given anything clos
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