Jodie Steele
T’Shan Williams
Veronica’s ‘mean girl’ classmates, playing opposite Carrie Hope Fletcher’s Veronica Sawyer in the eagerly-anticipated European premiere of Heathers – The Musical (beginning its limited run next month) will be played by Jodie Steele (Myth, The Other Palace), Sophie Isaacs (The Rocky Horror Show, European tour) and T’Shan Williams (Caroline or Change, Hampstead Theatre). Big Fish star Jamie Muscato will play brooding bad boy JD.
They will be joined by Chris Chung (Here Lies Love, National Theatre), Dominic Anderson (The Rocky Horror Show, Playhouse Theatre/UK tour) and Rebecca Lock (Mary Poppins, international tour). Further casting will be announced at a later date.
Based on the cult classic 1980s film Heathers which starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, Heathers – The Musical is due to play a strictly limited run from 9 June to 4 August 2018.
Already a record-breaker at the central London venue within days of tickets first going on sale, the producers recently announced an additional performance and 1,000 extra seats would be released in response to exceptional public demand.
Sophie Isaacs
With music, lyrics and book by Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy and based on Daniel Waters’ original screenplay for Michael Lehmann’s dark tale of murderous teenage angst, Heathers was previously presented at The Other Palace in workshop form last year 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 will be 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 will once again direct 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 Murphy and O’Keefe, Heathers – The Musical will feature choreography by Gary Lloyd design by David Shields, lighting by Ben Cracknell, sound by Dan Samson and casting by Will Burton.
Angela Thomas
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