HEATHERS THE MUSICAL returns to the West End and launches UK tour
Photo credit: Pamela Raith (2018 cast)
The girls are back in town and on tour! Producers of Heathers the Musical have announced the hit show will return to London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket for a limited 12 week run from 21 June, and will launch its new touring production from 28 July.
Produced by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills, this high-octane black-comedy rock musical is based on one of the greatest cult teen films of all time, starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
Westerberg High’s Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she joins the beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, her dreams of popularity may finally come true. Mysterious teen rebel JD teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody.
Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy’s hit musical adaptation previously enjoyed two record-breaking seasons, launching at London’s The Other Palace and transferring to the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2018. It will return to the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 21 June and run for a strictly limited season until 11 September, with casting being announced in due course.
President of Access Entertainment, Danny Cohen, said: “We are keen to get the doors of the Theatre Royal Haymarket open as soon as possible. The energy of a sold-out performance in front of a live audience is like nothing else and we are delighted to be partnering with Bill Kenwright to achieve that on the very first day the government allows.”
The new touring production of Heathers the Musical will run in parallel to the West End production. It will open at Leeds Grand Theatre before visiting Liverpool, Nottingham, Newcastle, Sheffield, Birmingham, Canterbury, Bristol, Belfast, Dublin, Manchester, Milton Keynes, High Wycombe, Cardiff and Edinburgh.
Casting for the tour includes Rebecca Wickes (Veronica Sawyer), Simon Gordon (JD), Maddison Firth (Heather Chandler), Merryl Ansah (Heather Duke), Lizzy Parker (Heather McNamara), Mhairi Angus, Andy Brady, Callum Connolly, Liam Doyle, Georgina Hagen, Bayley Hart, Kurt Kansley and Daisy Twells.
The UK productions are directed by acclaimed its original off-Broadway director, Andy Fickman, with choreography by Gary Lloyd, design by David Shields, lighting by Ben Cracknell and sound by Dan Samson.
To book tickets for the West End production, please click here and for touring venues. please visit the relevant theatre websites.
