{"id":320469,"date":"2026-08-13T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T16:40:08","slug":"more-cast-changes-coming-to-off-broadways-heathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320469\/","title":{"rendered":"More Cast Changes Coming to Off-Broadway&#8217;s Heathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heathers The Musical has revealed more new casting headed for the Off-Broadway revival, currently playing New World Stages and headed for a November 8 final bow.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning September 9, the production will welcome Anneliese van der Pol (That&#8217;s So Raven,\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/beauty-and-the-beast-palace-theatre-vault-0000009145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beauty and the Beast<\/a>)\u00a0as Ms. Fleming, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/morgan-dudley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Dudley<\/a> (<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/hadestownwalter-kerr-theatre-2018-2019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hadestown<\/a>)\u00a0as Heather Duke, Nicholas A. Wilkinson as <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/kurt-kelly-vault-0000047597\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kurt Kelly<\/a>, Jimmy Ray Bennett as Ram&#8217;s\u00a0Dad, and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/brian-martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Martin<\/a> as Kurt&#8217;s Dad. Current cast members <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/jeannette-i-bayardelle-vault-0000086646\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeannette Bayardelle<\/a>, Jackera Davis, Cade Ostermeyer, and Adam Bashiabn will all give their final performances September 6.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Pol&#8217;s engagement will continue through October 26, with <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/kate-rockwell-vault-0000048181\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Rockwell<\/a> (<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/mean-girlsaugust-wilson-theatre-2017-2018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mean Girls<\/a>) set to return as Ms. Fleming for the revival&#8217;s final week.<\/p>\n<p>The revival of the Laurence O&#8217;Keefe-Kevin Murphy musical opened July 10, 2025, coming back to the venue that hosted its 2014 original New York production via a new staging that originated at London&#8217;s The Other Palace. The current cast features <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/isabella-esler-performer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isabella Esler<\/a> as Veronica, Zan Berube as Heather Chandler, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/john-cardoza\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Cardoza<\/a> (<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/the-notebook-broadway-gerald-schoenfeld-theatre-2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Notebook<\/a>) as J.D., <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/ava-demary-vault-0000114722\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ava DeMary<\/a> as Heather McNamara, Bayardelle as Ms. Fleming, Chris Marsh Clark (A Beautiful Noise) as Ram Sweeney, Davis (<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/beetlejuicewinter-garden-theatre-2018-2019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beetlejuice<\/a>) as Heather Duke, Aniya Thompson as Martha Dunstock, Ostermeyer as Kurt Kelly, Bashian as Ram&#8217;s Dad, and Bennett as Kurt&#8217;s Dad. Casting is by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/the-telsey-office-casting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Telsey Office<\/a>&#8216;s Rachel Hoffman and Jimmy Larkin.<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from the 1988 film, the musical follows Westerberg High student Veronica Sawyer, who&#8217;s on track to become one of the most popular girls in school after befriending the beautiful but cruel Heathers, only to meet a mysterious teen rebel who changes everything. Andy Fickman directs the revival, which will launch a North American tour in Baltimore next year.<\/p>\n<p>Heathers the Musical premiered with a sold-out run in Los Angeles in 2013, and transferred to New World Stages in 2014, also directed by Fickman in a different staging. The authors revised the show for a 2018 West End run, before playing two national tours and a West End encore engagement\u2014several new songs and script changes can be heard in New York for the first time in this revival. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/heathers-where-are-they-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\">READ: Heathers, Where Are They Now?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fickman reunited his London creative team for the Off-Broadway mounting, including choreographer Gary Lloyd (the New York iteration also includes additional choreography by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/stephanie-klemons-vault-0000098486\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Klemons<\/a>), set and costume designer David Shields (this staging also features co-costume design by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/siena-zoe-allen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Siena Zo\u00eb Allen<\/a>), lighting designer Ben Cracknell, and sound designer Dan Samson. Will Joy serves as music supervisor, with Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh as music director. Jason Weixelman is production stage manager, with <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/elizabeth-allen-stage-manager\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Allen<\/a> stage managing and Eszter Zador serving as assistant stage manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heathers The Musical has revealed more new casting headed for the Off-Broadway revival, currently playing New World Stages&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-320469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}