Is "Heathers" happening?
Is "Heathers" happening?
#1Is "Heathers" happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 5:05pm
Is Heathers on Broadway happening?
Updated On: 5/22/17 at 05:05 PM
#2Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 5:07pm
Too weird, I literally just wrote a post on my blog about how Heathers could theoretically take the Walter Kerr next (but won't), along with some other shows...I threw it in my list as a joke...
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Clyde15
Leading Actor Joined: 5/9/15
#3Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 5:33pm
It's doing a Work in Progress Workshop in London along with Bonnie and Clyde right now. I guess they are still working on the show with the aim to get it to Broadway one day
Clyde15
Leading Actor Joined: 5/9/15
#4Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 5:33pm
It's doing a Work in Progress Workshop in London along with Bonnie and Clyde right now. I guess they are still working on the show with the aim to get it to Broadway one day
#5Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 5:37pm
THEY PROMISED IT WOULD BE ON BROADWAY YEARS AGO.
Al they had to do was rewrite the book and score to make it halfway decent and build an actual set! Why is that so hard?
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#6Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 6:04pm
I'm a massive Heathers fan, and can't believe its gaining to be 3+ years since I saw it last. I think we're kind of screwed right now, as Meangirls is going to come in next spring and there won't really be a market for a second, extremely similar musical. Theoretically the best move would be to come in over the summer and do a limited run, a la "Bring It On," but that would just be too good to be true.
BakerWilliams
Leading Actor Joined: 2/1/16
#7Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 6:07pm
It's going to play in rotating rep with Rebecca and an honestly funded Davenport show.
#8Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 6:18pm
BakerWilliams said: "It's going to play in rotating rep with Rebecca and an honestly funded Davenport show.
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Oh really? I heard it was opening after First Wives Club closes at the Lyric.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#9Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 8:25pm
gleek4114 said: "I heard it was opening after First Wives Club closes at the Lyric."
But that'll run forever!
#10Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 9:04pm
Omg, please don't joke about First Wives Club. There's a reason the Chicago run was selling $12 Orchestra seats.
#11Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 11:01pm
TheSassySam said: "Omg, please don't joke about First Wives Club. There's a reason the Chicago run was selling $12 Orchestra seats.
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Lol. I saw it in Chicago from a $9.99 orchestra seat. I actually enjoyed it, but I knew with only 1/2 the orchestra full, it wasn't going anywhere. Glad I caught it when I did. It'll probably never be heard of again.
#12Is it happening?
Posted: 5/22/17 at 11:34pm
Still think this show has a fantastic score. I'm excited to see what happens with the London production.
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#13Is it happening?
Posted: 5/23/17 at 2:23am
I wonder if it would still come on to Broadway with MEAN GIRLS running. I know some schools have done it, but I'm surprised at the lack of big regional productions of it.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#14Is it happening?
Posted: 5/23/17 at 11:18am
It's doubtful they'd want Heathers and Lame Heathers running simultaneously.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#15Is it happening?
Posted: 5/23/17 at 11:44am
The script for Heathers - at least the one I've read - makes the script for Legally Blonde seem like Hamlet. The version I read seemed to have been written to be a multi-million dollar production with the large number of scenes/settings called for in the script. I was tasked over a year ago to see if it could fit into a small local black box theatre and, like the original off-broadway production, it can be done, but can and should are two different things.
#16Is it happening?
Posted: 5/23/17 at 11:57am
Let me get some facts lined up before I ask - this show ran for a brief four months in an open-ended commercial Off-Broadway production three years ago with 19-count'em-19 producers credited. It received few award nominations, and won none. The Times did it few favors, saying that it "isn’t as savvy or mordant as the film that inspired it," that it had a "sort of bubbly generic score" and "sassy sendup lyrics now common to musical adaptations of film comedies;" that "this might be a show to see while slightly buzzed," because "everything is writ large enough to penetrate an alcohol haze."
But someone thinks that it could succeed on Broadway?
#17Is it happening?
Posted: 5/23/17 at 3:17pm
newintown said: "Let me get some facts lined up before I ask - this show ran for a brief four months in an open-ended commercial Off-Broadway production three years ago with 19-count'em-19 producers credited. It received few award nominations, and won none. The Times did it few favors, saying that it "isn’t as savvy or mordant as the film that inspired it," that it had a "sort of bubbly generic score" and "sassy sendup lyrics now common to musical adaptations of film comedies;" that "this might be a show to see while slightly buzzed," because "everything is writ large enough to penetrate an alcohol haze."
But someone thinks that it could succeed on Broadway?
"Succeed on Broadway...HA not happening!
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