I may or may not have fallen back into heathers while making this Thank you for all the support :) Oh god I just realized I put crochet instead of croquet LMAO Also with the amount of people who want to sing seventeen with me we can start a choir

also i cannot get over the fact that veronica confessed to THREE MURDERS yet no one believed her 💀💀

I LOVE HOW THEY KEPT THE ACTORS IN THE COSTUMES THEY DIED IN ITS SO FUNNY AND KINDA REALISTIC!? (personally don't think ghosts have closets)

Dan is actually just such an amazing actor and person. My biggest flex is that my parents were good friends in middle school so I’ve met him before. He’s a very cool guy

the fact that heathers is still relevant even years after it debuted (excluding the west end era) i still don't understand how they still haven't had a revival cast in america or even a broadway run back in 2014

1:11 look, if YOU found out the boy you've been in love with for ten+ years who you thought invited you to his homecoming party was 1. apparently gay 2. apparently gay WITH his best friend 3. and they apparently committed mutual suicide 4. and at their joint funeral you found out their dads were ALSO gay 5. FOR EACH OTHER 6. AND THEN THE GAY DADS MADE OUT AT THE FUNERAL i would also be going through it. i can't blame martha on this one.

why is nobody talking about how barrett literally did a press jump during curtain call like what an icon

1:17 'The last time everyone was happy together' Ah yes, the funeral of two 17 year olds is such a joyous occasion.

Did anyone notice that at the end of Meant To Be Yours, Veronica's mom comes in with a snack, which is a callback to Candy Store, where Heather says, "If you lack the balls, you can go play dolls, let your mommy fix you a snack"

i cannot fathom how good of a JD dan is. everyone says that ryan is their favorite, but i think i'd have to disagree. i love both performances so much (i listen to it on spotify and the off broadway version all the time), but dan just does it better to me? he sounds more unhinged and actually insane, unlike ryan does in the spotify version. ryan sounds more annoyed that his plan isn't working, however dan's version makes JD sound more desperate and confused, and that's how i picture him. also, that high note in freeze your brain? it makes my ears a lot happier than ryan's version. this could ofc be spotify's fault because it may have been too loud the other way, or it was too hard to capture in a studio, dunno. either way, they're both my favorite JD's, i think i just like dan's more.

I always liked how Heather M’s actor portrayed her moving. Heather M always had really jaunty hyped up movements, up until Life Boat. Instead of everything she did seamlessly folding together, kind of like when she’d be cheerleading, when it came to LifeBoat she was slumped over swaying a bit, and all of her actions in time with the chorus were sharp and jagged. Her character is being authentic, showing the whole school her suicidal thoughts, so she doesn’t feel like she needs to stand presenting the flowy cheer captain look. When Shine A Light Reprise (whine whine whine, literally my favourite number it’s the only piece of fiction that’s ever made me cry.) comes on, when HM is having her panic attack, it’s the same thing just more frantic.

My favorite part of this musical is Meant to Be Yours. The flip btw the chorus and verses is so jarring bc the verses are 4/4 but the chorus is 3/4 so the chorus is super romantic sounding like a waltz/ballad but the verses are the perfect contrast with the manic speed and stuff. Like they captured JD's instability so well it gives me chills every time.

2:37-2:50 I absolutely love the blocking that Veronica is mimicking the movements of Heather Chandler, showing that in that moment, Veronica is acting unlike herself, but more like Heather Chandler. CHILLS everytime! 4:20 Also, when you think about Heather McNamara's words, this means that Heather Duke does not give her a ride to school even before the victims were murdered. Jeez, that hurts

I like the bit where JD panics for a bit when Veronica confesses to the murders and then he does a nervous little laugh after when everyone laughs, he's thinking it's fine. He just got lucky.

2:41 HOW COULD YOU NOT POINT OUT THAT VERONICA IS STANDING IN THE EXACT SAME WAY AS HEATHER

i love how heathers can make me genuinely love a cast full of awful characters.

I absolutely despised when people who didn't know what heathers was, and started to say "I would open the door for him lol" sure you would. It was such a dumb trend!!

4:02 Heather; “I’ve thought about killing myself!! :(“ The crowd; “Oohh 😟”

This isn’t my my idea but I read it so long ago I forgot where it was from: 6:30 in kindergarten boyfriend Martha isn’t wearing her glasses and I think someone theorized that she didn’t want to see the fall distance from the bridge so she wouldn’t panic and cop out from jumping which makes this scene even sadder

8:30 JD CHANGED FASTER THAN THE LIGHTS

In my opinion, kindergarten boyfriend sounds like a Disney song, and not so ironically, is a lot like Martha, the Disney stories with all the drama.. but a happy ending, it's so sad she didn't get much a happy ending for herself

If you pay attention at 9:07 you can hear the little whimper in JD voice when he sings "can we not fight anymore, please?"

One thing that I noticed after watching the movie is that (I am going off of Dans JD) in the movie it seems like jd never really loved veronica, and was just using her from the start, and she realizes this later on in the movie. While in the musical it seems like jd really did love veronica, and him murdering heather, kurt, and ram because he was quite literally crazy for her; and veronica knows this too as she threatens to break up with him because she thinks thats what might get him to stop. Also the difference in when both jd's found out veronica "unalived" herself. If I am remembering correctly, movie Jd laughed and explained his whole plan to blow up the school and had snuck into her room to unalive her. But when musical jd finds her, he looks genuinly heartbroken, but got over it quick and only fueled him further to blow up the school. Or he pretended to be sad because he knew she wasnt really dead seeing as when she finds him in the broiler room he doesnt seem overly surprised. Depending on how you view that scene in the musical it could change your whole perspective of the storyline. Last thing I want to mention is the scene just before jd blows up: In the movie when they say goodbye I think he says "our love is god" (I dont remember exactly) but he says it more sarcastically because he knows that veronica knows what his whole plan was and just the way they say goodbye has a "I'll see you in another life" vibe - which I find a perfect ending of their relationship. In the musical however their goodbye is a lot more heartfelt, and during the "our love is god" reprise you hear jd sing "Id trade my life for yours, and once I disapear, clean up the mess down here" because he realizes the trauma hes given veronica and thinks that the only way for here and the rest of the town to heal is for him to be gone. While hes singing that you hear veronica sing "oh my god, wait hold on, not this way" because shes realizing what hes doing. I heard this from someone else, but I completely agree with it and just thought I would throw it in, but; when veronica sings "say hi to god" at the end she knows that deep down his heart is in the right place and that she still thinks hes a good guy therefore thinks that he is going to go to heaven. This ending is a little bit more heart clenching, but I wouldnt change a thing about the way the musical finishes off their relationship. This is just something I realized after the 7th time rewatching the musical, and I thought I would share it. Sorry about the 3 almost 4 paragraphs, and hopefully this makes sense (its nearly 1am and I am not rereading it to make sure it makes sense)

I love how at the end of dead girl walking reprise when they're wrestling for the gun and it goes off you cant tell who's been shot until JD falls to the ground. Thats always been one of my favourite small details and I hate when other shows don't do it.

At 9:14, idk if anyone noticed, but as Veronica is hanging and JD is breaking down a bit, Heather, Kurt, and Ram slowly turning their heads to either stare at Veronica or JD is so unnerving

hypothetically if i were to say “september 1st, 1989" would other people want to, i dont know, maybe recite the entire musical with me????? i mean just hypothetically of course

i find it so crazy that at 5:42 j.d's dad is implanting the idea for how j.d himself will try and blow up the school. "you should have seen the fireworks, got it all here on video. loaded the upper floors with thermals, set the whole thing off with a norwegian in the boiler room. kaboom." this play is amazing

7:00 my friend was really shocked when i told them that kindergarten boyfriend was a s**cide note

this video has singlehandedly dragged me back into my heathers phase tysm

0:32 in the movie he asks her if she took german, she tells him she took french. right after he gave her the Ich Luge line, he was making sure she didnt know

the addition of "that blows" when she brings off jd blowing "her off" is phenomenal 😭

I love Martha’s costume because it reflects how she was still stuck in kindergarten due to Ram

my sister’s only flex is one that most heathers fans would LITERALLY KILL FOR. so when she went to see heathers, her fave song is meant to be yours. so she was singing it PASSIONATELY and the guy playing jd saw this, and APPARENTLY HE LOOKED HER RIGHT IN THE EYE AS HE WAS PERFORMING AND SMILED AT HER. LIKE.. WHAT

8:36 JD's pew pew pews are my favorite part of the musical

the way JD jumped back at 4:44 has me crying 😂 like he new there was bout to be something going on like “oh shit this girl bout to yank her hair off”

For some reason I always thought “I’m talking you and me in the summer of ‘83!” Was to trick ppl into thinking they’re gay and “that was one hell of a fishing trip” sorta tied it down like, oh they’re not gay it’s just a joke, idk, I only found out that it meant they WERE gay last year

Seventeen (reprise) always has me crying because the fact that it’s done it so sad :(

i know it’s a really short song but i’m so freaking mad they didn’t include prom or hell in the album

7:53 Jd jumpscare

Anyone else love a show when the characters are feral as all get out and the actors are cinnamon rolls? I saw a college production of Heathers. The girl who played Heather C had gone to my high school, and was literally one of the sweetest people I've ever met. She's a brilliant actress and it was wild.

The offbway cast of heathers are insanely talented i don’t think they’ve ever found a better cast all around in general after this one

The way Jd is singing so innocently in Meant to be Yours, then "VERONICA". Truly a deranged masterpiece. you can tell that he went to some dark laces to play that character. Also, in Seventeen reprise, when Veronica reaches out to Heather M, shes being held on by Heather D, and the breaks free. I love that detail of character growth.

JD: Veronica, can we kiss? Veronica: 3 people are dead because of us! JD: That doesn't really answer my question

This one goes out to everyone who actually APPRECIATES “Kindergarten Boyfriend” because I’ve heard so many people say it’s the one song they skip and I- FUMING 😤

Can we just appreciate the full chest voice belted A5? 9:25 that note among others (G#5 in Beautiful, G#5 in Dead Girl Walking, several C#5 and other high belts in other songs) makes Veronica one of the most difficult female roled to play on Broadway imo because most people simply cannot belt that high consistency.

okay but has anyone else noticed that in seventeen veronica says “hold me tighter” and JD responds with “even closer” but it’s foreshadowing I am damaged because JD says “please stand back now, a little further” and i love that

5:10 I don't see people making this correlation very often and it's so worth highlighting it, shine a light reprise is like the result of McNamara's mental state during the musical, is played in a way that shows it's not "real" (and yet people hate Duke for this, specifically)

i love that they made martha wear childish clothes bc she was only ever happy in kindergarten and she’s trying to preserve that sliver of happiness to stay alive…she does the same with the princess bride movie

4:21 I'VE REWATCHED THIS SCENE SO MANY TIMES LIKE A YEAR AGO AND YET SEEING IT AGAIN STILL GAVE ME CHILLS????

I absolutely love how hyped the actor for JD seemed at the end

8:05 my humor is so broken I laugh at this 😭

I love 10:03, the shakiness in his voice is so good I can't help but re-wind.

4:56 it was at this moment she knew, SHE FUCKED UP

the way that heather leaps into Veronica's arms just - I - 🥺🥺

5:37 i never noticed that seventeen is playing in the background here now i'm really crying

Where does Dan get all that fkin energy oh my god- Not just the performance but also in the ending where hes jumping and clapping so aggressively and high fiving people. He did JD such justice in his performence.

5:30 yeah they used tic tacks

0:48 wow I’m just realizing this in the scene I always imagined the trip was during their teen years I forgot the time was still the 80s

2:32 Not Martha being homophobic- Also whoever played Fleming KILLED IT EVERYONE IN THIS SHOW IS SO TALENTED SO IS THE ORCHESTRA

9:45- FORGET THE SCREAM- JD'S FACE- I JUST NOTICED IT

I don’t know who I got this from, but someone said that Veronica always saw the good in people, and by saying: “say hi to god” she truly believed JD still had good in him and could go to heaven or something isk

3:41 WHY DID HE START JUST SHAKING THE LIGHTS (JD)

1:45 I LITERALLY LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH I WANNA SING IT WITH SOMEONE

3:30 that's so darcc why did I laugh so hard lololol

IM SORRY BUT THE WAY DAN SAID 'ALL IS FORGIVEN BABY' AT 8:02 IS JUST SO FUNNY LMAO

I can't get over the fact that Ram and Kurt are in their underwear the whole time they're dead. Just a bit of continuity that I'm here for.

0:40 they got reawakened

I love that Dan like slightly backed up and stiffened when Duke asks McNamara what her damage, it's like a small detail that brings me happiness for no apparent reason

7:45 LITERAL CHILLS.

the fact that i automatically said "oh she's screwed" at 6:19

11:20 SAME THIS IS WHAT I DO

fun fact: the first night i met my boyfriend we found out we both love heathers and we sang the soundtrack together and danced in the kitchen. it was love at first ‘seventeen’ singalong

1:00 also veronica is the only one in there that is not wearing black, i think that means something (or not) but i can't really think of why

i think we forgot to point out that when veronica is telling martha off, shes standing in the same pose as heather, trying to immitate her. at 2:46 theyre standing right by each other in the same pose. UNNOTICED DETAILS

5:25 im so happy other people saw that cool little fact/easter egg!

Someone might’ve already pointed this out but I will never get over how Veronica and Heather move completely in sync at 2:35 it’s such a good detail

Ok, Chandler might be Vistelia's favourite, but, hands down, mine's Macnamara. She's probably the kindest out of the three, the most enthusiastic, and just a leader. Her arc from the popular girls, to attempt of suicide, to soon redemption is beautiful and I love her relationship growing with Veronica. She was concerned on where Veronica was since of JD saying she was dead, and, honestly, I ship them. Also Vistelia, I will be willing to sing Seventeen with you.

1:39 I SHOULDN'T HAVE LAUGHED 💀

This is my favorite part besides candy store 7:30

2:17 this is my cue- done called me out

The amount of little details in this musical is just amazing. I keep noticing something new, for example in the song "the me inside of me" you can notice that Veronica actually sees Heather C and follows her with a gaze

how is noone talking about the fact that Veronica and Heather synced their poses at 2:50 which shows that Veronica is getting more like Heather?! it's soooo good

Heather's will always be my favorite musical. Beautiful vocals, great characters, and especially how it's the perfect mix of funny and super dark. I always loved how the handled the darker themes and showed just how genuinely fucked up a lot of the things going on were. Loved the movie, but the musical just did the emotion justice. The best part is the constant reminder that thESE ARE 17 YEAR OLDS. THEYRE KIDS(ish)

Fun fact: For the movie they were gonna let JD blow up the school but they thought it was too dark so they gave it a happy ending! This movie and musical could’ve ended SO MUCH WORSE

Dead girl walking reprise honestly is the best song in the show like meant to be yours is a masterpiece and a close second but goddamit its so good

I SWEAR I'VE FALLEN BACK TO HEATHERS MODE ALL OVER AGAIN AND I'M IN FOR IT😭✨

Martha’s high note in Kindergarten Boyfriend legit gave me chills, I forgot how much I love this version of Heathers

When you think about it, Veronica accidentally confessing to the murders is kind of similar to the ending of American Psycho in a way. The ending hints that if your on the top, it doesn't matter what you do or what you confess to, everyone is the same and no one will believe you (the ending is interpreted in different ways, this one was just kind of similar to Veronica's accidental confession).

I love how the actors and the audience are having the same amount of fun with the performance

IT’S SO TRUE Martha isn’t there at all for shine a light because she runs off! I played Martha over the summer and it made me so sad thinking about it, but also my good friend played Fleming so I got to vibe backstage and watch them perform

I've never even heard the full soundtrack but I litterly started to cry at the end when the 17 reprise came on

I loved her laugh so much, and meant to be yours the swich between soft and angry really shows how an abusive relationship really is and they did so great showing those little bits throughout the entire musical. Just french kiss

8:51 HEATHER MC HAS. HER. POMPONS.

0:55 I feel like they attended their funeral just for this. Idk how they knew it was gonna a happen, but they deff did

1:49 I will!! I worship this song

6:07 why does this seen have me simping so much for JD(and Dan a lil :P) I mean the whole musical does but especially here when he says “I love you!”

7:23 oke but the shirtless boys really said "im wearing socks its a sign that I'm not gay"💀💀💀💀💀

JD litterally says “I Love You” whilst… HOLDING A LOADED GUN!

dude this is perfect I just watched heathers off broadway and then saw this and this was just golden

My favorite part of almost any musical is at the end when they’re doing bows or the final bit, and they’re not in character because you got to see their relationship with each other and that’s honestly my favorite part of doing a musical