and Veronica comfort each other and plan a vengeful prank: she will lure the jocks to the cemetery with the promise of making their fictional threesome real, then together they will shoot them with tranquilizer ' Ich lüge' bullets to knock them out before leaving a forged suicide note confessing, they were gay lovers. attacks the jocks to defend her, they savagely beat him. Veronica is branded a slut ('Blue' (Playoff) - not included in West End and future productions), and when J.D. was, while Ram and Kurt tell everyone they had sex with Veronica ('Blue (Reprise)' or 'Never Shut Up Again'). assumes Heather C.'s status and symbolic red scrunchie, becoming even more of a tyrant than Heather C. She tries to rescue the remaining Heathers from a drunk Kurt and Ram, who unsuccessfully try to rape her ('Blue' or 'You’re Welcome'). Veronica tries to get on with her normal life, but she is berated and mocked by Heather C.'s ghost, who warns that she had kept the other two Heathers in check and with her gone, things will get worse. This fictionalized version of her wins the school's sympathy and she becomes even more worshipped in death than she was in life ('The Me Inside of Me'). convinces her to forge a suicide note, which paints a more complex, misunderstood Heather C. adds toxic drain cleaner to his mug and goads Veronica into serving it to Heather C., who drops dead. With nothing left to live for, Veronica breaks into J.D.'s bedroom and has sex with him ('Dead Girl Walking').Īfter suffering tormenting dreams ('Veronica's Chandler Nightmare'), Veronica, with J.D. When the Heathers cruelly prank Martha, Veronica angrily resigns from the clique and vomits on Heather C., who vows to destroy Veronica's reputation. At Ram's homecoming party, Veronica gets increasingly drunk ('Big Fun'). at a 7-Eleven, where he extols the virtues of the Slurpee for numbing his grief ('Freeze Your Brain').

Veronica's parents confess to their daughter that they are not sure they like her new friends and would prefer if she was friends with Martha again. wins a fight against Ram and Kurt, Veronica finds herself unexpectedly attracted to him ('Fight for Me').

The mysterious, poetry-quoting new kid, Jason 'J.D.' Dean, criticizes Veronica for betraying her friend. orders Veronica to forge a love letter from Ram to Martha, tempting Veronica with the promise of popularity ('Candy Store'). 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').

In 1989, 17-year-old Veronica Sawyer despairs at Westerberg High School's hellish social hierarchy, where students like the heavyset Martha Dunnstock, Veronica's best friend, are tormented by jocks Ram Sweeney and Kurt Kelly, and the school is ruled by the Heathers: weak-willed Heather McNamara, bulimic and petty but repressed Heather Duke, and 'mythic bitch' Heather Chandler. After the run in 2014, the show had an Off-West End run in 2018 and then transferred to the West End in 2018 for a limited engagement.Īlthough the show is a high-energy black comedy, it opens conversations about dark issues, including bullying, teen suicide, sexual assault, and school violence. After a sold-out Los Angeles tryout, the show moved Off-Broadway in 2014. Todd Harris, Amy Powers, RJ Hendricks, and Andy Cohen. Heathers: The Musical is a musical with music, lyrics and book by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy, based on the 1989 film of the same name written by Daniel Waters.

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