Off-Broadway’s\u00a0revival of\u00a0Heathers The Musical has moved up its closing date at New World Stages. The multi-extended production\u00a0had initially been announced to stick around through November 8; it\u00a0will now take its final bow October 11. The production is set to embark on a North American tour from Baltimore next year.<\/p>\n
The revival of the Laurence O’Keefe-Kevin Murphy musical opened July 10, 2025, coming back to the venue that hosted its 2014 original New York production. It features\u00a0a new staging that originated at London’s The Other Palace. The current cast features Isabella Esler<\/a> as Veronica, Anneliese van der Pol (That’s So Raven, Beauty and the Beast<\/a>) as Ms. Fleming,\u00a0Zan Berube as Heather Chandler, John Cardoza<\/a> (The Notebook<\/a>) as J.D., Ava DeMary<\/a> as Heather McNamara, Morgan Dudley<\/a> (Hadestown<\/a>) as Heather Duke,\u00a0Chris Marsh Clark (A Beautiful Noise) as Ram Sweeney, Nicholas A. Wilkinson as Kurt Kelly<\/a>,\u00a0Aniya Thompson as Martha Dunstock, Jimmy Ray Bennett as Ram’s Dad, and Brian Martin<\/a> as Kurt’s Dad. Casting is by The Telsey Office<\/a>‘s Rachel Hoffman and Jimmy Larkin.<\/p>\n The earlier closing date means Kate Rockwell<\/a>, who had been scheduled to re-join the revival as Ms. Fleming for the production’s final week of performances, will no longer play that encore engagement.<\/p>\n Adapted from the 1988 film, the musical follows Westerberg High student Veronica Sawyer, who’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 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 READ: Heathers, Where Are They Now?<\/a><\/p>\n Fickman reunited his London creative team for the Off-Broadway mounting, including choreographer Gary Lloyd (the New York iteration also includes additional choreography by Stephanie Klemons<\/a>), set and costume designer David Shields (this staging also features co-costume design by Siena Zo\u00eb Allen<\/a>), lighting designer Ben Cracknell, and sound designer Dan Samson. Will Joy serves as music supervisor, with Josh Kight as music director. Jason Weixelman is production stage manager, with Katherine Shea<\/a> stage managing and Eszter Zador serving as assistant stage manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off-Broadway’s\u00a0revival of\u00a0Heathers The Musical has moved up its closing date at New World Stages. The multi-extended production\u00a0had initially…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-343177","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\/343177","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=343177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}