(NEW YORK, NY) -- Producers Bill Kenwright LTD., Paul Taylor-Mills and Jerry Goehring are pleased to announce that after smash hit runs in London and on tour throughout the UK, a new production of Heathers the Musical will make its eagerly awaited return to New York City in June.
Featuring book, music, and lyrics by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe, Heathers the Musical will start performances on June 22, 2025 and will play a limited engagement through September 28, 2025 at New World Stages, Stage 1 (340 West 50th Street). Heathers the Musical will be directed by Andy Fickman, who staged the record-breaking UK production.
Tickets will go on sale at www.heathersthemusical.com and Telecharge.com on Monday, March 31, 2025 at 10:00am.
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 JD turns up, the mysterious teen rebel who teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody...
Heathers the Musical 2024 UK Cast, photo by Pamela Raith Photography
Based on the 1989 cult film by Daniel Waters that starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, Heathers the Musical 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, incorporating several new songs and script changes that will be heard in New York for the first time. Heathers the Musical has had three smash hit West End productions and three tours, which have broken box office records throughout the UK and Ireland. Heathers the Musical won the 2019 WhatsOnStage Award for Best New Musical and in 2022 was filmed for streaming on The Roku Channel.
Since its premiere, Heathers the Musical has gained a large, devoted fan base known as the ‘Corn Nuts,’ named after the cryptic final words of ringleader Heather Chandler. These fans have significantly contributed to the show’s international success, resulting in over 200 productions worldwide.
A new US cast and additional creative team members will be announced in coming weeks. General management for Heathers the Musical is by Pemberley Productions.
BIOGRAPHIES
Kevin Murphy (Music, Book, Lyrics) was a producer of the original LA and NY productions of Heathers the Musical (Drama Desk nomination for music). He also provided lyrics and co-wrote the book for the stage musical Reefer Madness and was a producer for both the Los Angeles premiere and Off-Broadway productions. Reefer swept the three major Los Angeles theatre awards, which included triple wins for Best Musical and Best Score. In New York, Kevin’s lyrics were nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Kevin co-adapted Reefer into a Showtime Original movie, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and screened in competition at the 2005 Deauville Film Festival, winning the Premiere Audience Award. The movie received three Emmy nominations, winning for Outstanding Music & Lyrics. Kevin is also a television creator/writer/producer. He is the showrunner for the current AMC series “The Son,” a historical drama starring Pierce Brosnan. Other TV writing credits include “Desperate Housewives” (Golden Globe winner, two-time WGA Award nom, Emmy nom.); “Defiance” (co-creator/showrunner); “Ed”; “Reaper”; “Caprica” (showrunner); “Valentine” (co-creator/showrunner); “Hellcats” (co-creator/showrunner); “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” (syndicated series, co-creator/showrunner).
Laurence O’Keefe (Music, Book, Lyrics) is a composer, lyricist, book writer, producer, and music director for Broadway, the West End, film, and television. With his wife and partner Nell Benjamin he won the 2011 Olivier Award for Best Musical for co-writing Legally Blonde The Musical. Blonde was a hit on Broadway, London’s West End, and two US national tours, received 2007 Tony and Drama Desk nominations, and won Australia’s Helpmann Award for Best Musical, spawning hundreds of productions and tours worldwide. Blonde was also televised twice — once as a live performance on MTV, watched by 12 million people, and as a reality TV show, “Legally Blonde: The Search For The Next Elle Woods” (MTV). He is best known lately for co-writing book, lyrics and music for Heathers the Musical. Co-written with Kevin Murphy and based on the cult film by Dan Waters, Heathers premiered Off-Broadway at New World Stages, was nominated for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and has received over 200 productions, inspiring a passionate worldwide following. The Heathers Original Cast Album, produced by Yellow Sound Lab, has remained in iTunes’ Top Ten Cast Albums since 2014. Tens of millions of people have watched YouTube videos for hundreds of fan-created Heathers tributes, covers, and animatics. Larry’s other theatre credits include Bat Boy: The Musical (winner of Lucille Lortel, Richard Rodgers, and Outer Critics Circle Awards), which has received over 500 productions worldwide. And with Nell he has also co-written Sarah, Plain and Tall (Dallas Theater Center, Eugene O’Neill Festival, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Theatreworks/USA), Cam Jansen and the Curse of the Emerald Elephant (Lamb’s Theater, Off-Broadway; Drama Desk nomination) and The Mice (Ahmanson Theatre, LA, produced by Harold Prince). Larry composes music and/or lyrics for film and TV shows including Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV), Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris (NBC), The Daily Show (Comedy Central), Julie’s Green Room (Netflix), Defiance (SyFy), Johnny And The Sprites (Disney Channel), Single (Amazon), and more. Larry has won the Ed Kleban Award, the American Academy of Arts & Letters’ Richard Rodgers Award, the ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, and the Jonathan Larson Foundation Award for his music and lyrics. In 2015, he won the New York Funny Song Festival’s Grand Prize for his song “A Modest Proposal.” Larry and Nell teach master classes in music and creative writing at Harvard, Yale, NYU, and elsewhere. Upcoming projects include the Broadway premiere of Bat Boy and two new musicals with Nell Benjamin, Life of The Party (workshopped March 2017 at NYU’s Steinhardt School), set in the movie industry of Stalin’s USSR, and Huzzah! (Williamstown Theatre Festival), a romantic epic about love, betrayal, family dysfunction, dictatorship, and revolution at a Renaissance Faire.
Andy Fickman (Director) is an award-winning director, writer, and producer whose work spans film, television, theatre, and digital. Most recently, Fickman wrapped production on the pilot for the Wizards of Waverly Place reboot for Disney+. The pilot reunites the original stars of the series, Selena Gomez and David Henrie. In conjunction with Village Roadshow and BKL, Fickman recently directed and produced the stage capture of his award-winning show Heathers the Musical, which became an instant hit on Roku. The stage show recently wrapped a record-breaking sell-out run at The Other Palace in London, where it won multiple awards, including a win for WhatsOnStage’s Best New Musical. Heathers has completed two wildly successful UK/Ireland tours. Prior to that, the show had two successful West End runs at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Before its transfer to London, the show had a successful New York run at New World Stages, where it was nominated for multiple Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Lortel awards. The show first started in Los Angeles to sold-out, standing-room-only audiences. Fickman recently completed a workshop of the musical adaptation of the hit film 13 Going on 30 in London, as well as a workshop production of the new musical Halls in London, written by George Stroud and Jennifer Harrison. The show was enthusiastically received and sold out its run at the Turbine Theatre. Fickman’s latest feature film is the forthcoming horror film Blue Light, which was inspired by true events and recently debuted at ScreamFest UK. Additionally, Fickman directed Buzzfeed’s romantic dramedy One True Loves, based on the best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid. The film stars Phillipa Soo, Simu Liu, and Luke Bracey. Fickman’s previous credits include the hit family comedy Christmas Again for Disney+ and Disney Channel. Before that, he directed and executive produced all episodes of The Crew for Netflix, starring Kevin James, Freddie Stroma and Sarah Stiles. Previously, he directed and executive produced Kevin James’ Netflix stand-up comedy special Never Don’t Give Up and directed Netflix’s No Good Nick, starring Melissa Joan Hart and Sean Astin. Before that, he directed the hit family film Playing with Fire, starring John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo, and Judy Greer, for Paramount. Additionally, Fickman directed, and executive produced two seasons of “Kevin Can Wait” for Sony TV and CBS, which was nominated for two People’s Choice Awards. Fickman also helmed Sony’s box office hit movie, Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. The film was nominated for multiple Teen Choice Awards, including Best Comedy.
Fickman also directed the smash-hit family comedy Parental Guidance starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler for Fox/Walden Media, Paramount’s She’s The Man, which won a Teen Choice Award for Best Comedy, and Disney’s hit films The Game Plan and Race to Witch Mountain—both starring The Rock – along with Touchstone’s comedy You Again, starring Kristen Bell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Sigourney Weaver, and Betty White. Fickman was a producer on Sony’s hit film Anaconda as well as Paramount’s Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Fickman’s other television directing/producing credits include episodes of Recovery Road, The Odd Couple, Hellcats, Austin and Ally, and Aliens in America, alongside four seasons of the Emmy Award-winning Liv and Maddie for Disney Channel. Fickman also directed and produced Reefer Madness: The Musical for Showtime, which premiered at Sundance and went on to win an Emmy Award (with three Emmy nominations), as well as the Premiere Award at the Deauville Film Festival. Prior to that, Fickman also directed the stage versions of Reefer Madness in both Los Angeles and New York, which won him Best Director awards at the Ovation Awards and Drama Critics Awards. Fickman’s other stage works include the smash hits Jewtopia and Sneaux!, which won him Best Director awards from LA Weekly. Early in his career, Fickman co-founded the critically acclaimed Fountainhead Theatre Company.
Bill Kenwright Ltd (Producer) is one of the largest and most established commercial theatre and entertainment producers with over five decades experience of producing more than 500 productions to date – including tours, West End, and international productions. Bill Kenwright Ltd is part of the Bill Kenwright Group of companies, alongside Bill Kenwright Theatres and film and TV production and financing company BK Studios. Current Productions include Blood Brothers (UK & Ireland Tour); Ghost the Musical (UK & Ireland & International tours); Cruel Intentions – The Musical (UK & Ireland Tour, The Other Palace, London), Boys from the Blackstuff (UK Tour, Garrick Theatre, London); The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (The Other Palace, London). Previous Productions include Death of England: The Plays (@sohoplace, London); Boys from the Blackstuff (Garrick Theatre, London); Heathers the Musical (Haymarket, The Other Palace and @sohoplace, London, 3 UK Tours); Cruel Intentions – The Musical (The Other Palace), Ian McKellen & Roger Allam in Frank & Percy (The Other Palace); My Son’s a Queer, (But what can you do?) (Ambassadors Theatre); Saturday Night Fever (The Peacock, UK & Ireland Tours); Love Letters (Haymarket, London); The Best Man (Playhouse, London); The Exorcist (Phoenix, London); Evita (Dominion, UK & International Tours); How the Other Half Loves (Haymarket, London); The Go-Between (Apollo, London); Let the Right One In (Apollo, London); Twelve Angry Men (Garrick, London & UK Tours); Cabaret (Savoy, London & UK Tours); Blood Brothers (24-year run in the West End); Written on the Heart (RSC – Duchess); Brief Encounter (Lyric); The Pitmen Painters (Duchess & UK Tours); The Wizard of Oz (The London Palladium); On the Waterfront (Haymarket, London); Sunset Boulevard (Comedy, London); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Adelphi, London); The Crucible (RSC – Gielgud, London); Whistle Down the Wind (Palace, London); A Man for All Seasons (Haymarket, London); Scrooge (The London Palladium); A Few Good Men (Haymarket, London); Festen (Lyric, London); The Glass Menagerie (Apollo, London); Judi Dench in All’s Well That Ends Well (RSC – Gielgud, London) and ten years of the Peter Hall Company, with credits including Judi Dench in Hay Fever (Haymarket, London); The Gift of the Gorgon (Wyndham’s, London); Filumena (Piccadilly, London); Jessica Lange in A Streetcar Named Desire (Haymarket, London). On Broadway: Travels with My Aunt (Drama Desk Award); Dancing at Lughnasa (Tony Award); Medea (Tony Award); Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (four Tony Awards); The Chairs (six Tony Award nominations); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, Primo, Festen, Passing Strange and Guys and Dolls. Blood Brothers played for three years at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre. Co-producer Elvis – The Concert arena tour with Elvis Presley Enterprises.
Bill Kenwright CBE - 4 September 1945 - 23 October 2023 | A beloved partner, father, grandfather, friend, and founder of his namesake companies, Bill Kenwright CBE was driven by his passions and devoted his life to them; his deep love of theatre, film, music and his beloved Everton FC, and the families they created. In a multi-award-winning career spanning six decades, Bill produced over 500 West End, Broadway, UK touring and international theatre productions, films, and music albums. His impact on the arts industry has been profound. Bill helped to launch the careers of many producers, performers, and creatives, and for many years was estimated to employ more actors in a year than any other employer aside from the BBC. His tireless work across the UK also revitalized the touring network in Britain, with barely a stage in the UK that Bill hadn’t brought a show to. He impacted the lives of thousands, whether that be through the launching of careers or his unending loyalty, generosity, and unfaltering friendship and support. “Bill was one of the greatest producers this country has ever known” Rufus Norris Artistic Director and CEO of The National Theatre.
Paul Taylor Mills (Producer) is the Artistic Director of The Other Palace Theatre, London. He has worked as an Advisory Producer to Andrew Lloyd Webber and The Really Useful Group. Stage credits include: At the Turbine Theatre - My Son’s A Queer (But what can you do?) (The Garrick, Ambassadors Theatre – Olivier nominated, Best Entertainment or Comedy Play); Eugenius!; But I’m A Cheerleader, My Night with Reg, MTFestUK 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, Cinderella: The Socially Distanced Ball, Hair (part of the Turbine on the Jetty Season), Torch Song, High Fidelity and Cat In The Hat. Elsewhere, I Wish You Well – The Gwyneth Paltrow Ski-Trial Musical at the Criterion Theatre, Cruel Intentions at The Other Palace, Heathers the Musical at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, The Other Palace and UK Tour (winner of the WhatsOnStage Best New Musical Award), Murder For Two at the Watermill Theatre and The Other Palace, Cake the UK Tour, Lyric Theatre and The Other Palace, Boy Out The City and Bloody Elle at the Lyric Theatre, The Wild Party at The Other Palace, European Premiere of Disney’s Peter and the Starcatcher at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton, Side Show at Southwark Playhouse, The Last Five Years at the St. James Theatre (winner of the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off-West End Production) End of the Rainbow on UK Tour, In the Heights at Kings Cross Theatre and Southwark Playhouse (winner of three Olivier Awards), Casa Valentina at Southwark Playhouse, Carrie The Musical at Southwark Playhouse (winner of The WhatsOnStage Off West End Award), and Associate Producer on The Importance of Being Earnest starring David Suchet on UK Tour and the Vaudeville Theatre.
Jerry Goehring (Producer) is a Tony and Grammy-nominated producer who has produced shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London, and more than 20 national tours and sit-downs in many cities, including Chicago, LA, Boston, and Seattle. Credits include executive director of the Tony Award-winning National Theatre of the Deaf, founder of the Stuart Street Playhouse in Boston, and co-founded, with his wife Patty Carver, Connecticut Children’s Theatre, the acclaimed national touring company that has performed for over one million inner-city children across the country. Broadway includes the Tony-nominated A Christmas Story, the Musical, Be More Chill, and this season’s Othello. Jerry proudly runs the nationally ranked theatre program at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.
