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Heathers: The Musical Is Back. Drool Much?
The high-school-in-chaos London hit, lightly revised, returns to New World Stages.
As my predecessor Jesse Green noted during Heathers ’s first at-bat in New York in 2014, the musical has a pulsing and clever score by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe (of the great Legally Blonde and Bat Boy, which I’m looking forward to seeing when it’s revived this fall) that’s several degrees more finely honed than the material that surrounds it. If you’re familiar with the original, you’ll notice a bit of nipping and tucking: Veronica has a new second-act solo that offers her more high notes to hit, and there are also new songs for the bullying jocks (who are thankfully subject to fewer “Haha they’re secretly gay” jokes) and the second-in-command Heather, Duke (the green one). Thankfully, there’s Kerry Butler doing more than solid character work as a mom and a ditzy teacher, Erin Morton giving a crystalline sadness to Martha Dunnstock, and McKenzie Kurtz, who applies a wide-eyed fury to her queen bee, Heather Chandler, and turns her atavistically scary, a crimson priestess to the goddess of being blonde.
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