Heather Duke Never Shut Up Again
Heathers: The Musical is a stone musical with music, lyrics and book by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy, based on the 1988 film of the same name written past Daniel Waters. After a sold-out Los Angeles tryout, the show moved Off-Broadway in 2014. Later the run in 2014 the show had an Off-West End run in 2018 and and so transferred to the West End in 2018 for a express date.
While information technology is a loftier-energy black comedy, the prove opens conversations about dark issues, including bullying, teen suicide, sexual set on, and violence in schools.
Contents
- ane Synopsis
- 1.ane Act One
- i.ii Human action Two
- two Music
- ii.one Off-Broadway
- 2.two Wollaton
- iii Productions
- three.i Development
- 3.two Los Angeles
- iii.3 Off-Broadway
- 3.four London
- four Cast
Synopsis [ ]
Human activity One [ ]
September 1st, 1989.
17-twelvemonth-one-time Veronica Sawyer despairs at Westerburg Loftier School's hellish social hierarchy, where students like Martha Dunnstock are tormented by jocks Ram Sweeney and Kurt Kelly, and the school is ruled by the Heathers: weak-willed Heather McNamara, bulimic Heather Duke, and "mythic bitch" queen Heather Chandler. When Veronica's talent for forgery gets the Heathers out of detention, they give her a makeover and elevate her to their inner circle ("Beautiful").
Chandler discovers Martha's crush on Ram, and orders Veronica to forge a dear alphabetic character from him to Martha, tempting Veronica with the promise of popularity ("Candy Store"). The mysterious, verse-quoting new kid, Jason "J.D." Dean, criticizes Veronica for betraying her friend. J.D. wins a fight confronting the jocks, and Veronica finds herself unexpectedly attracted ("Fight for Me"). Veronica'due south parents confess to Veronica that they aren't sure they like their daughter's new friends and would adopt if she was friends with Martha once again. ("Candy Store (Playoff)").
Veronica flirts with J.D. at a 7-11, and he extols the virtues of the Slurpee for numbing his grief ("Freeze Your Encephalon"). At Ram's homecoming party, Veronica gets increasingly drunk and high ("Big Fun"). When the Heathers cruelly prank Martha, Veronica angrily resigns from the clique and vomits on Chandler's shoes. Her reputation in ruins, Veronica breaks into J.D.'s sleeping accommodation and loses her virginity to him ("Dead Girl Walking").
After tormented dreams ("Veronica's Chandler Nightmare"), Veronica, with J.D. in tow, apologizes to Chandler. Veronica and J.D. mix hangover cures for Chandler; J.D. adds toxic drain cleaner to his mug as a joke, just the mugs get accidentally switched. Chandler drinks from the poisoned mug and dies. Veronica panics, but J.D. convinces her to forge a suicide annotation, which paints a more complex, misunderstood Heather. This fictionalized Chandler wins the schoolhouse's sympathy and is even more worshipped in death than she was in life ("The Me Inside Of Me").
Veronica tries to go on with her normal life but is berated and mocked by Chandler'southward ghost. Veronica tries to rescue the Heathers from a drunkard Kurt and Ram, who aggressively beg her for sex, but she gives them more than alcohol until they pass out ("Blue", in the alternating song, "You're Welcome," she escapes by pushing them into a moo-cow pasture full of manure). Heather Duke assumes Chandler's condition and symbolic red scrunchie, and Ram and Kurt tell everyone they had sex with Veronica ("Blue (Reprise)" in the Off-Broadway production. "Never Shut Up Once again", replacing information technology in the West Cease version). Veronica is branded a slut ("Blue (Playoff)", not included in the West Cease or high-school version), and when J.D. attacks the jocks to defend her, they savagely beat him.
J.D. and Veronica comfort each other and plan a vengeful prank: Veronica will lure the jocks to the cemetery with the hope of making their fictional threesome real, so J.D. and Veronica will shoot them with tranquilizer "Ich Lüge" bullets to knock them out, leaving a forged suicide note confessing they were gay lovers. When the jocks make it, J.D. shoots Ram but Veronica misses Kurt. As she realizes Ram is dead and the bullets are existent, J.D. shoots Kurt expressionless and proclaims his undying honey to a horrified Veronica ("Our Love Is God").
Act Ii [ ]
At Ram and Kurt'southward funeral, a distraught Veronica reflects that they could accept outgrown their immaturity ("Prom or Hell?"). Grief-stricken, Ram'south Dad chastises Kurt's Dad for remaining homophobic, until Kurt's Dad suddenly kisses Ram's Dad, revealing their own hush-hush love affair. Confession brings catharsis and all vow to make the globe a more tolerant place ("My Dead Gay Son"). Convinced the murders are for the greater expert, J.D. urges Veronica to target Heather Duke next. She refuses, and as J.D. complains near doing nothing in the face of injustice, he reveals he witnessed his mother'south suicide. Veronica gives him an ultimatum: give upwards violence and live a normal life with her, or lose her forever ("Seventeen"). J.D. agrees and they reconcile. Martha tells Veronica she suspects J.D. of murdering the jocks, believing Ram'due south "dear note" is proof. Veronica, urged on past Chandler'south ghost, confesses that she forged the note to humiliate Martha, who runs off in tears.
Guidance counselor Mrs. Fleming holds a televised therapy assembly ("Shine a Light"). She urges everyone to reveal their fears and insecurities, but simply Heather McNamara admits to suicidal thoughts ("Lifeboat"), and Duke mocks her and whips the students into a frenzy. Veronica lashes out and blurts a confession - "they didn't impale themselves! I killed them!"—merely everyone laughs mockingly, thinking Veronica is just drastic for attention. Shortly after, McNamara tries to kill herself by overdosing in the bathroom ("Smoothen a Lite (Reprise)") only Veronica stops her. J.D., carrying a gun, over again tries to persuade Veronica to impale Duke; realizing how unstable he is, Veronica breaks upwardly with him (In the Off-Broadway production, there is not a song used for Veronica having plenty of J.D.'s unstable nature, nonetheless, "I Say No" is a vocal made exclusively for the West End production that explains everything through song).
J.D. blackmails Duke into making the student body sign a petition. Martha, mourning Ram, jumps off a bridge ("Kindergarten Boyfriend") but survives. Veronica rushes to the hospital, taunted by the ghosts of Kurt, Ram, and Chandler ("Yo Girl"). She returns home, where J.D. breaks in. Equally she barricades herself in the closet, he reveals the petition, signed past every student, is really a mass suicide notation – his plan to blow upwardly the pep rally volition wait similar a mass suicide. He breaks open up the closet to find Veronica dangling from a noose. Grief-stricken, he leaves to complete his programme ("Meant to Be Yours").
Veronica, having faked her suicide, races to end J.D. ("Expressionless Girl Walking (Reprise)"). She confronts him in the boiler room, but in their struggle, J.D. is shot. Unable to disarm the bomb, Veronica takes information technology to the empty football field. J.D. convinces her to let him take the bomb instead ("I Am Damaged"). Information technology explodes, killing him alone.
Returning to school, Veronica takes the cherry scrunchie from Duke and ends the era of social ridicule. Veronica invites Martha and Heather McNamara to hang out, rent a movie, and be kids before childhood is over ("Seventeen (Reprise)").
Music [ ]
Off-Broadway [ ]
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Wollaton [ ]
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† Non featured on the World Premiere Cast Recording. †† Songs added to the West Finish version and all future productions.
"You're Welcome" replaces "Blue," a song on the World Premiere Cast Recording. "You're Welcome" was originally written by O'Keefe and Potato for the High School edition but was added to the official show beginning with the 2018 London production. O'Keefe and Murphy preferred "You're Welcome" as they had come to feel that "Blueish" was a bit lazy, and had inadvertently trivialized the atomic number 82 grapheme'due south fears (given that Veronica is cornered by two boozer, entitled high school football stars who refused to hear the word "no"). While "Blue" contained no dialogue for Veronica, by dissimilarity "You're Welcome" allows Veronica to limited her fears and solve her problem, defeating her assailants decisively. Besides as providing a more empowering alternative for Veronica, the new song remedies the way that "Blue" was often considered every bit "treating date rape as a laughing matter" and presenting sexual attack or harassment as "boyish antics", due to the comical nature of the song.[2]
A new song for Heather Duke, "Never Shut Upward Again", was also added for the London run, replacing "Bluish (Reprise)". For the 2017 workshop, at that place was a different song to supplant "Blue (Reprise)", which became "Big Fun (Reprise)", role of which is at present included in "Never Shut Up Again". In the last calendar week at The Other Palace, the authors added a new song after "Shine a Light (Reprise)" called "I Say No", in which Veronica finally dumps JD when he proposes a return to murdering, telling him "you need help I can't provide" and walking out on him. The song remained in the show for the Haymarket run and was released on Feb 15, 2019, equally the kickoff single on the West End bandage album.
Productions [ ]
Development [ ]
3 private readings of the work in progress were held in Los Angeles in 2009, each starring Kristen Bong equally Veronica. The first was in March at the Beverly Hills offices of Endeavour Agency (starring Christian Campbell equally J.D.); the second in June at the Hudson Theatre on Santa Monica Boulevard (starring Scott Porter every bit J.D.); and the third in December at the Coast Theatre in Westward Hollywood, starring James Snyder as J.D. In each reading, Jenna Leigh Green, Corri English, and Christine Lakin played Heather Chandler, Heather McNamara and Heather Duke respectively.
On September thirteen–14, 2010, Heathers was presented as a concert at Joe's Pub. The bear witness was directed by Andy Fickman, and information technology starred Annaleigh Ashford equally Veronica Sawyer, Jeremy Jordan as Jason Dean, Jenna Leigh Green as Heather Chandler, Corri English equally Heather McNamara, and Christine Lakin as Heather Duke, James Snyder equally Kurt Kelly, PJ Griffith every bit Ram Sweeney, Julie Garnyé as Martha "Dumptruck" Dunnstock, Eric Leviton as Ram's Dad, Kevin Pariseau equally Kurt's Dad/Principal, Jill Abramovitz as Ms. Fleming/Veronica's Mom, Tom Compton as Hipster Dork/Preppy Kid, Alex Ellis as Goth Daughter/English language Instructor/Young Republicanette, and Kelly Karbacz as Stoner Chick/School Psychologist.
Los Angeles [ ]
The show played at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in Los Angeles for a limited engagement on the weekends from September 21, 2013 to Oct 6, 2013. The cast included Barrett Wilbert Weed as Veronica, Ryan McCartan as J.D., Sarah Halford as Heather Chandler, Kristolyn Lloyd as Heather Duke, and Elle McLemore as Heather McNamara. McLemore was the simply Heather to remain with the bandage when the prove transferred to Off-Broadway, but subsequently Alice Lee left the product, Kristolyn Lloyd reprised her role every bit Heather Duke.
Off-Broadway [ ]
In 2013, it was announced thatHeathers: The Musical would be brought to Off-Broadway, previews commencement in March at New World Stages, directed past Andy Fickman. Coincidentally, New Globe is also the name of the original film's distributor. In February 2014, the cast was announced, including Barrett Wilbert Weed, Ryan McCartan, and Elle McLemore reprising their roles as Veronica, J.D., and Heather McNamara, respectively, with new additions to the cast being Jessica Keenan Wynn equally Heather Chandler, Alice Lee as Heather Duke and Tony Laurels winner Anthony Crivello every bit Nib Sweeney/'Big Bud' Dean.[7] The testify began previews on March 15, 2014, and opened on March 31, 2014.
A cast album was recorded on April 15–sixteen, 2014 with an in-store and digital release of June 17, 2014.[8] It was released a week early June 10, 2014.
Heathers: The Musical played its final functioning at New World Stages on August 4, 2014.
London [ ]
A workshop of the musical opened at The Other Palace, London which held five presentations in the Studio from 30 May to June iii, 2017. The workshop featured Charlotte Wakefield as Veronica Sawyer.
Following the workshop, the musical had its official London premiere in the Theatre at The Other Palace, London from June nine to August 4, 2018, starring Carrie Hope Fletcher as Veronica Sawyer, Jamie Muscato as J.D., Dominic Andersen as Ram Sweeney, Edward Baruwa as Ram's Dad, and Jon Boydon every bit Kurt'due south Dad.[12] The production is produced by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills, directed again by Andy Fickman and with choreographer/associate manager Gary Lloyd.[13] For the London production "Blue" has been changed to the new song "Yous're Welcome" and Heather Duke has received her own song "Never Shut Up Once again" besides equally a few script changes.
Heathers transferred to the West Cease at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, running from September 3, 2018 to November 24, 2018. A new vocal for Veronica, "I Say No," likewise every bit a few script changes to Act 2 were added for the transfer.
A West Stop cast recording was released on Ghostlight Records on March 1. The album premiered at No. 1 on the iTunes Britain Soundtracks Charts and at #2 on the iTunes United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Anthology charts. The album premiered at No. 24 on the Official Albums Chart.
On March 3, 2019, Heathers The Musical won the All-time New Musical award at London's Whatsonstage.com Awards. Carrie Hope Fletcher also won for Best Actress In A Musical.
Bandage [ ]
| Character | Joe's Pub (2010) | Los Angeles (2013) | Original Off-Broadway (2014) | Australia (2015-16) | Original Off-Due west End (2018) | Original West Cease (2018) |
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| Veronica Sawyer | Annaleigh Ashford | Barrett Wilbert Weed | Jaz Flowers | Carrie Hope Fletcher | ||
| Jason "J.D." Dean | Jeremy Jordan | Ryan McCartan | Stephen Madsen | Jamie Muscato | ||
| Heather Chandler | Jenna Leigh Green | Sarah Halford | Jessica Keenan Wynn | Lucy Maunder | Jessica Tamarii Peter | |
| Heather McNamara | Corri English | Elle McLemore | Erin Clare | Olivia Panek | ||
| Heather Knuckles | Christine Lakin | Kristolyn Lloyd | Alice Lee | Libby Asciak | Stephany Vidal Omoridon | |
| Martha Dunnstock | Julie Garnye | Katie Ladner | Lauren McKenna | Giselle Oakwood | ||
| Ram Sweeney | PJ Griffith | Jon Eidson | Jakob Ambrose | Mandingo N | ||
| Kurt Kelly | James Snyder | Evan Todd | Vincent Hooper | Aiden Koya Toopou | ||
| Bill Sweeney / Big Bud Dean / Coach Ripper | Eric Leviton | Rex Smith | Anthony Crivello | Northward/A | Edward Baruwa | Nathan Amzi |
| Paul Kelly / Mr. Sawyer / Principal Gowan | Zachary Ford | Daniel Cooney | Northward/A | Jon Boydon | ||
| Mrs. Sawyer / Pauline Fleming | Jill Abramovitz | Rena Strober | Michelle Duffy | Lauren McKenna | Rebecca Lock | |
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