{"id":31590,"date":"2013-12-11T23:22:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T04:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=31590"},"modified":"2019-08-29T20:58:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T00:58:20","slug":"heathers-musical-set-to-open-on-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/11\/heathers-musical-set-to-open-on-off-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"HEATHERS Musical Set To Open On Off-Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heathers-placeholder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31593\" alt=\"heathers-placeholder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/heathers-placeholder-192x300.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>When FilmBuffOnline head honcho Rich Drees wrote about a musical based on the film <strong>Heathers <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/12\/heathers-heads-to-the-stage\/\">way back in 2009<\/a>, I really didn&#8217;t believe it would see the light of day, let alone be opening Off-Broadway. It seems I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heathers <\/strong>is returning to New York City in March for a limited run at New World Stages. A concert presentation of the musical was present at renowned NYC music venue Joe&#8217;s Pub back in 2010. It is currently coming off a developmental run at Hudson Backstage Theater in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>The music for the show is done by Tony-nominee Laurence O&#8217;Keefe (<strong>Legally Blonde: The Musical<\/strong>) with a script and lyrics by Kevin Murphy (Emmy-winner for the 2005 Showtime musical adaptation <strong>Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical<\/strong>) and is directed by Andy Fickman (<strong>The Game Plan, Race to Witch Mountain<\/strong>). Cast has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Performances will begin on March 17, 2014 and run until September 7, 2014. The show&#8217;s website can be accessed by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160129165625\/http:\/\/heathersthemusical.com:80\/\">here<\/a>, and tickets for the first two weeks of performances can be purchased here.<\/p>\n<p>A note for non-Broadway literate: You might hear &#8220;Off-Broadway&#8221; and think of shows done in church basements with actors sharing the venue with bingo paraphernalia.\u00a0 That&#8217;s more Off-Off-Broadway. New World Stages is a newer theater (lest than ten years old) that specializes in debuting plays and musicals that eventually go on to Broadway (<strong>Rock of Ages<\/strong>), come from Broadway (<strong>Million Dollar Quartet<\/strong>, <strong>The 39 Steps<\/strong>, <strong>Peter and the Starcatcher<\/strong>, <strong>Avenue Q<\/strong>), or are a little too weird for Broadway but yet have mass appeal (<strong>Evil Dead: The Musical, The Toxic Avenger, Altar Boyz<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151001060534\/http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/12\/11\/heathers-musical_n_4424731.html\">The Huffington Post<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/10\/heathers-musical-will-play-off-broadway-in-march\/?hpw&amp;rref=theater&amp;_r=0\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Arriving on the Off-White Way after a developmental run in Los Angeles.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/11\/heathers-musical-set-to-open-on-off-broadway\/\" title=\"HEATHERS Musical Set To Open On Off-Broadway\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1502],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-heathers"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31590"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=31590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}