“Stories can be very limited in terms of who they’re for and what they address,” Jang said, adding that theater often fails to represent people of diverse backgrounds and sexualities. The directors said the licensing of “Heathers” shows other theater companies that it is possible to reimagine a script to increase representation in a production.Įchoing the directors, Jang said that “having the scripting license just removes one more barrier” to producing “Heathers” and other plays as gender-bent productions. With licensing, the script can be used by other theater companies that want to produce the show with a female-presenting J.D. And when they reached out to the writers of “Heathers,” Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy, they fully supported the idea and worked with students to script the first official gender-bent version. Once Saletan expressed interest in playing the role, however, the directors embraced the idea. Khong and Le had not originally planned on casting the leading role of J.D. The gender-bent production was critically acclaimed by Stanford students and community members. The fully virtual production was directed by Diana Khong ’22 and Gwen Phagnasay Le ’22 and starred Junah Jang ’24 as Veronica and Emily Saletan ’24 as a female J.D. has been played by non-male actors in the past, Stanford was the first to work with the original creators of the musical to produce an official script.
The script, written specifically for Stanford, is the first gender-bent “Heathers” to be officially available for licensing. I am so pleased to say that a year and a half later we have been able to see Heathers go from The Other Palace studio, to the main house, to the West End.Ram’s Head’s gender-bent version of “Heathers” musical will soon be available for licensing by theater companies outside the Stanford community. Paul Taylor Mills said: “Two years ago Andrew Lloyd Webber and I set on a mission to create a space in the UK where musicals could be tried and tested with audience feedback at the heart of that development.
The new song, ‘I Say No’ and updated script were added into the final week of performances at The Other Palace, offering audiences a sneak peek ahead of the show’s transfer to the West End in September. The creative team behind Heathers the Musical have announced a brand new song has been written into the show ahead of it’s West End debut at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, along with multiple re-workings to the script.įollowing extensive work across the run of it’s European premiere at The Other Palace, the creators of Heathers – The Musical, Laurence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy, alongside director Andy Fickman, have written an original new song for leading lady Carrie Hope Fletcher.
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