Review Heathers The Musical
8 / 10
The big-belting Courtney may not nail Veronica’s sarcasm, but she sounds great in her numbers, especially the wistful "Seventeen.” And Likes's J.D. is a revelation. Best known for playing fresh-faced teens in Broadway’s Almost Famous and Back to the Future, he may have seemed an odd choice for this sinister role. But he manages to make J.D. both crush- and cringe-worthy, sympathetic but ultimately scary. When he woos her with "Our Love Is God," you get why Veronica's smitten, but you also root for her, in the end, to fight back against the seductions of violence. In a new cultural landscape in which cruelty is often the point, the mere idea of choosing kindness over killing makes this Heathers’s message feel radical.
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