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Ashley's avatar

Bernadette was robbed

Sloan Ciccone's avatar

Like she was a jewel at the Louvre: it was coordinated, deliberate, and an affront to both art and history

Vitally Useless's avatar

Heathers is such a Gen X jewel it cannot exist outside of those parameters. It's a perfect evisceration of my generational cohorts, it cannot be properly filtered through a current lens, I read that the parents in this adaptation actually show up.....just no.

Sloan Ciccone's avatar

It’s interesting: I didn’t see the short-lived, comparatively recent TV adaptation, but I wonder if the generational specificity you describe also prevented it from being successful.

Donald | 100 Showtunes's avatar

A deeply satisfying review!

Sloan Ciccone's avatar

That genuinely means a lot coming from you!

Stephanie's avatar

Wait so the one actor just left at intermission??? Couldn't handle it herself? That made me laugh out loud. My friend's company produced it - we watched Heathers w Sam a few months ago as a result. Omg it does not work today... like you said.

Sloan Ciccone's avatar

Yeah, it happens now and then--usually because of an act one injury or an upset stomach. I've heard that Glenn Close (in the original Sunset Blvd.) and Ann Reinking (in the Chicago revival) had plenty of "act one only" performances.