Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills have confirmed plans to take the critic and crowd-pleasing Heathers The Musical on the road next year.
Chosen by Mousetrap Awards’ voters earlier this year as the show young theatregoers would most like to see return, the award-winning production will follow its two record-breaking seasons at London’s The Other Palace and the Theatre Royal Haymarket by heading out across the UK in 2020. Dates, venues and casting details will be announced soon.
A record-breaker at 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.
A re-working of the cult classic 1980s 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, Heathers The Musical 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, was produced in the UK by Kenwright and Taylor-Mills, the team behind new London venue the Turbine Theatre.
Featuring new material exclusively written for the London production by Murphy and O’Keefe, the touring version of the show will once again be directed by Andy Fickman. The original creative team of choreographer Gary Lloyd, designer David Shields, lighting designer Ben Cracknell and sound designer Dan Samson will also return for the tour.
Angela Thomas
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