Heathers The Musical will return to the West End this summer just a few weeks before the launch of the show’s eagerly-anticipated first national tour.
Presented by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills, the critic and crowd-pleasing show will return to the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 21 June 2021 for a strictly limited 12-week run. The tour will open at Leeds Grand Theatre with a three-week season from 28 July.
Welcoming the West End encore run for the critic and crowd-pleasing show, on behalf of the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Danny Cohen, president of Access Entertainment said: “We are keen to get the doors of the Theatre Royal Haymarket open as soon as possible. The energy of a sold-out performance in front of a live audience is like nothing else and we are delighted to be partnering with Bill Kenwright to achieve that on the very first day the government allows.”
While casting for the West End has yet to be announced the touring cast will feature Rebecca Wickes as Veronica Sawyer with Simon Gordon as JD, Maddison Firth as Heather Chandler, Merryl Ansah as Heather Duke and Lizzy Parker as Heather McNamara. The cast will also include Mhairi Angus, Andy Brady, Callum Connolly, Liam Doyle, Georgina Hagen, Bayley Hart, Kurt Kansley and Daisy Twells.
Following the opening run in Leeds, the production will head for Liverpool, Nottingham, Newcastle, Sheffield, Birmingham, Canterbury, Bristol, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester, Milton Keynes, High Wycombe, Cardiff and Edinburgh.
A record-breaker at London’s The Other Palace within days of tickets first going on sale, Heathers The Musical was the first show at The Other Palace to move from a studio workshop to a main house production before becoming the first from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s newest theatre to celebrate a West End transfer in 2018.
A re-working of the cult classic Eighties film Heathers which starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, Heathers The Musical features music, lyrics and book by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy.
Based on Daniel Waters’ original screenplay for Michael Lehmann’s dark tale of murderous teenage angst, the production was initially presented at The Other Palace in workshop form in 2017 as the venue’s first Work in Progress production.
The musical which arrived in the UK following successful runs in the US in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco, and in Sydney Australia, is produced in the UK by Kenwright and Taylor-Mills, the team behind London’s Turbine Theatre.
Featuring new material exclusively written for the London production by Murphy and O’Keefe, the UK productions are both directed by the show’s original Off-Broadway director Andy Fickman. Choreography is by Gary Lloyd, with design by David Shields, lighting design by Ben Cracknell and sound by Dan Samson.
Angela Thomas
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