Heathers: The Musical [DVD]

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Nellie Andreeva, “‘Heathers’: Shelved Reboot Series To Air On Paramount Network With Edits,” Deadline (Oct 4, 2018) Replace “Blue” with “You're Welcome,” a new song created by the authors that adds Veronica's perspective.

Leslie Goldberg, “‘Heathers’ Reboot, Alicia Silverstone Comedy Switch Networks in Viacom’s Paramount Push (Exclusive),” The Hollywood Reporter (March 16, 2017) I'm also not convince the story in this is good or makes sense, Veronica technically kills someone and although they try and loosely make it look more his fault, technically it's still on her, it took very little persuasion to hide it and not report it etc. Also the heather who goes didn't really do much that I'd say it was fair. Then the actions continually of supposed heroes of the story are just odd. Veronica isn't particularly likeable and her attempts at humour aren't very good, her voice becomes grating and her mannerisms poor. Denise Petski, “‘Heathers’ Episodes Pulled Following Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting,” Deadline (Oct 29, 2018) The lad was extremely weak and poorly cast, he had no presence or charisma and just blandly did the basics very averagely. Voice: baritone/tenor, power Country/Gospel belt to A♭, higher welcome. NOTE: Sometimes this actor has played PRINCIPAL GOWAN instead of BIG BUD / COACH.In a rare glowing review, Variety’s Marilyn Stasio extolled “The witty Off Broadway show… plays strong to a multi-generational aud [sic]… Someone of the current generation should shake a leg and transfer this winner to Broadway.” BIG BUD DEAN - JD’s single Dad. Big jolly personality that barely conceals the enormous rage bubbling just below the surface. Quite possibly a serial bomber.

While Freeman found the score to be “generic,” Bano described it as “thrilling… full of bopping pop songs and moody ballads.” RAM’S DAD: Former football player turned suburban dad, has never outgrown his high school glory days. Hates weakness, but capable of soul-searching when tragedy strikes.

A teen edition , which leaves out the profanity, and drug and sexual references, is also available. As writer O’Keefe noted in Playbill upon the release of the teen edition in 2016, “By removing all the hot-button [material]…what was left was adolescents trying to be cruel to each other or trying to be kind to each other, trying to hurt each other or trying to save each other, and an amazing thing happened… it removed one extra layer of veil or insulation between the performers and the actual truth of the show, which made for a more intense, moving, awesome, funny and scary experience than we thought.”