PhotosPHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Starbucks, Stretching and Flexing!" A Two-Show Day at Heathers: The Musical With Katie LadnerThe Off-Broadway premiere of the Laurence O'Keefe-Kevin Murphy musical Heathers, based on the wickedly dark 1988 film comedy about a clique of deadly and domineering high school girls, plays New World Stages. Katie Ladner, who plays Martha Dunnstock, shares a recent two-show day!
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Starbucks, Stretching and Flexing!" A Two-Show Day at Heathers: The Musical With Katie Ladner
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Starbucks, Stretching and Flexing!" A Two-Show Day at Heathers: The Musical With Katie Ladner
The Off-Broadway premiere of the Laurence O'Keefe-Kevin Murphy musical Heathers, based on the wickedly dark 1988 film comedy about a clique of deadly and domineering high school girls, plays New World Stages. Katie Ladner, who plays Martha Dunnstock, shares a recent two-show day!
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Making Breakfast with Charissa Hogeland!
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Alrighty! Time to go to work!
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Waitin for the Train!
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Train time!
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My home away from home – New World Stages! About to go inside to get ready!
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But gotta hydrate first!
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Early Birds!! Jessica and Alice!
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Starbucks, the official drink of Heathers: the Musical (we wish!)
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Lovely Barrett warming up!
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Classy jocks about to do fight call. But they strike a pose first!
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BIG FUN!
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We practice gun safety here.
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....sometimes....
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Fight call!
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Push up club! I already did mine ;)
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Getting ready for circle!
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Before every show the cast gathers on stage in what our director passed down to us called "Circle." We hold hands and give inspirational pep talks. Great way to start the show!
Tony Award-nominated Legally Blonde composer O'Keefe collaborated with Emmy-winning Reefer Madness author Murphy on book, music and lyrics for the musical. Andy Fickman ("Reefer Madness," "She's the Man") directs the production.
The musical arrives in New York following a sold-out 2013 Los Angeles premiere. Several cast members from that production return for the Off-Broadway engagement, including Barrett Wilbert Weed (Lysistrata Jones, Bare) as Veronica, Ryan McCartan ("Liv and Maddie") as JD and Elle McLemore (Bring It On: The Musical, "Army Wives") as Heather McNamara. The cast also features Jessica Keenan Wynn (Les Misérables) as Heather Chandler and Alice Lee (Spring Awakening, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) as Heather Duke, with Katie Ladner as Martha Dunnstock, Jon Eidson as Ram Sweeney, Evan Todd as Kurt Kelly, Tony Award winner Anthony Crivello (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Golden Boy) as Ram's Dad/Big Bud Dean, Dan Cooney (Mamma Mia!, 9 to 5) as Kurt's Dad/Veronica’s Dad/Principal and Michelle Duffy (Leap of Faith) as Ms. Fleming/Veronica's Mom.
The ensemble includes Dan Domenech, Cait Fairbanks, Rachel Flynn, Molly Hager, Charissa Hogeland, AJ Meijer and Dustin Sullivan.
Heathers has set design by Timothy R. Mackabee, costume design by Amy Clark, lighting design by Jason Lyons, sound design by Jonny Massena and music direction by Dominick Amendum. Choreography is by Marguerite Derricks.
Here's how it's billed: "September, 1989. Westerberg High is terrorized by a shoulder-padded, scrunchie-wearing junta: Heather, Heather and Heather, the hottest and cruelest girls in all of Ohio. But misfit Veronica Sawyer rejects their evil regime for a new boyfriend, the dark sexy stranger J.D., who plans to put the Heathers in their place - six feet under. Deliciously, darkly funny, romantic and moving, Heathers: The Musical is a truthful, uplifting parable for anyone who’s ever been in love, in trouble, or in high school."
Heathers is produced Off-Broadway by Bruce Bendell, Jamie Bendell, Scott Benson, Andy Cohen, J. Todd Harris, Amy Powers, Scott Prisand and Big Block Theatrical. Creators Fickman, Murphy and O’Keefe are also producers, along with executive producer Denise Di Novi.
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