EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming Off Broadway revival of Heathers The Musical has announced the casting of its title trio: McKenzie Kurtz (Broadway’s Frozen and The Heart of Rock and Roll) will play Heather Chandler; Olivia Hardy (Broadway’s Kimberly Akimbo) will play Heather Duke; and Elizabeth Teeter (Broadway’s Beetlejuice) will play Heather MacNamara.
Kurtz, Hardy and Teeter join the previously announced Lorna Courtney (Broadway’s & Juliet), who will star as Veronica Sawyer, and Casey Likes (Broadway’s Back to the Future), who has been cast as J.D.
Additional casting will be announced next week.
The castings were announced by producers Bill Kenwright Ltd., Paul Taylor-Mills and Jerry Goehring.
Directed by Andy Fickman, Heathers begins previews at New World Stages, Stage I on June 22 and runs through September 28. The musical features a book, music, and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe.
The official synopsis: “Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of The Heathers – three beautiful and impossibly cruel classmates all named Heather – her dreams of popularity finally start to come true. That is until J.D. turns up, the mysterious teen rebel who teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody…”
“I couldn’t be more thrilled about the powerhouse trio stepping into those iconic red, green, and yellow costumes,” said director Fickman. “McKenzie Kurtz brings a ferocious authority to Heather Chandler that demands the spotlight. Olivia Hardy gloriously captures Heather Duke’s volcanic anger. And Elizabeth Teeter brings a heartbreaking vulnerability to Heather MacNamara that will surprise and move audiences. These Heathers are bold, brilliant, and absolutely deadly, in the best way possible.”
The musical is based on the 1989 film by Daniel Waters that starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater. The stage adaptation originally opened in Los Angeles for a sold-out run in 2013 and transferred Off-Broadway to New World Stages in 2014. The authors revised the show for the 2018 London premiere, directed by Fickman, incorporating several new songs and script changes, which will be heard in New York for the first time.
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