Following its multiple West End runs, Heathers the Musical will bring high school humour and horror to Cardiff when it visits Wales Millennium Centre from 22 – 26 August 2023 on its tour of the UK and Ireland.
Heathers The Musical is a high octane, black comedy, rock musical based on one of the greatest cult teen films of all-time starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater.
Jennifer Innes (Les Misérables) will be playing the role of angst-ridden teen Veronica Sawyer. Jason ‘J.D’ Dean will be played by Jacob Fowler (Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella).
Verity Thompson (Cinderella) will be playing Heather Chandler, Elise Zavou (Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World) will be playing Heather Duke and Billie Bowman (Heathers–The Other Palace) will be playing Heather McNamara.
They will be joined by Kingsley Morton (The Addams Family) as Martha Dunnstock, Alex Woodward (Mamma Mia!) as Kurt Kelly, Morgan Jackson (Mamma Mia!) as Ram Sweeney, Katie Paine (We Will Rock you) as Ms. Fleming, and Jay Bryce (Motown: The Musical) as Kurt’s Dad/Big-Bud Dean/Principal. Conor McFarlane (Once) will be playing Ram’s Dad/Veronica’s Dad/Coach Ripper, with Tom Dickerson (The Book of Mormon) as Beleaguered Geek, Lizzie Emery (Rent) as Midwestern Surfer Punk, Eliza Bowden (professional debut) as New Wave Party Girl, Eleanor Walsh (The Rocky Horror Show) as Drama Club Drama Queen, Summer Priest (Get Up Stand Up) as Young Republicanette, Maeve Byrne (Grease) as Stoner Chick, Liam Dean (GYPSY) as Hipster Dork and Markus Sodergren (Roles We’ll Never Play) as Preppy Stud.
Welcome to Westerberg High where Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she joins the beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers and 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…
Produced by Bill Kenwright and Paul Taylor-Mills, with a wickedly funny and dazzling book, music and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe, direction from acclaimed American screen and stage director Andy Fickman, electrifying choreography by Gary Lloyd, design by David Shields, lighting by Ben Cracknell, musical direction by Will Joy and sound by Dan Samson, Heathers The Musical is one class production you can’t afford to skip.
Tickets for the show are on sale now at https://www.wmc.org.uk/en/whats-on/2023/heathers
