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Nathan Amzi has joined the cast of the record-breaking Heathers – The Musical until the end of its West End transfer run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Celebrating his move to Westerberg High, the actor whose credits include hit shows including Aladdin and Rock of Ages, said: “I have loved jumping in becoming a part of this incredibly talented company! They are a true theatre family from the producers, creatives, cast, through every department.
“It’s been the fastest rehearsal I’ve ever had to performance, which was only possible with this extraordinary team. When I saw the show as an audience member it blew me away, it’s high-octane fun, full of heart backed by a stellar company. So to join their family is a joy.”
Featuring a new song for leading lady Carrie Hope Fletcher and a re-worked script, the hit show moved from The Other Palace to the bigger stage in the heart of the West End for its strictly limited run earlier this month.
A record-breaker at The Other Palace within days of tickets first going on sale, over 20,000 tickets were sold across the run which was sold out even before the opening gala performance.
The highest-grossing show in history at both Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Other Palace and the venue’s previous incarnation the St. James Theatre, Heathers was also the first show at The Other Palace to move from a studio workshop to a main house production and the first West End transfer for Lloyd Webber’s newest theatre.
Credited with attracting a new generation of theatregoers, the majority of the audience (70%) was found to be under the age of 30, the show’s transfer season aims to develop its younger and more diverse audience-base by offering over 15,000 seats priced at £25 across the run.
Based on the cult classic 1980s film Heathers which starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, Heathers – The Musical stars Hope Fletcher and Jamie Muscato.
With music, lyrics and book by O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy and based on Daniel Waters’ original screenplay for Michael Lehmann’s dark tale of murderous teenage angst, Heathers The Musical was initially presented at The Other Palace in workshop form in 2017 as the venue’s first Work in Progress production.
Arriving in the UK following successful runs in the US in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, and in Sydney Australia, the production is produced by the team behind another film to stage musical Carrie in 2015, Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor Mills.
The director of the workshop, Andy Fickman, directs the show with which he has been involved since its conception. Working with screenwriter Waters, Fickman brought in Legally Blonde’s O’Keefe and Murphy, the writer who worked with Fickman on the musical version of the 1930s satire Reefer Madness which premiered in LA in 1998.
Featuring new material exclusively written for the London production by Murphy and O’Keefe, the creative team includes choreographer Gary Lloyd, designer David Shields, lighting designer Ben Cracknell, sound designer Dan Samson, with casting by Will Burton.
Angela Thomas
Tickets for Heathers The Musical are available HERE.
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