Heathers: The Musical - TRH / The Other Palace / @sohoplace

Show stop before its even begun! Just heard Jordan warming up and nothing happen. SM came on and apologised. Still waiting.

Thanks for the offer, sorry I ended up at Hairspray (story about that one to follow), but hope someone used the seats.

But nothing at all happened. No music, just lights and silence and poor Christina stood on the steps cringeing. All was resolved after ten minutes and they delivered another cracking show. This is just a constantly evolving delight. Jordan Luke Gage has found his character, a bit of emotion mixed in with his psychopath. Christina Bennington is an absolute joy, or rather her Veronica is. I’ll look forward to the tour cast to inhabit the characters without the baggage of what they have done before, and also to seeing Cinderella at some point!

are they the side seats in the upper circle?

Welcome madeleineruth21

So act 2 was much better.

Just want to give a shout out to the theatre manager who, during the interval, was going around to the maskless people and asking them to put masks on - few obliged. There were 13 masks in the whole of the royal circle. He then appeared on stage and asked everyone to put masks on prior to act 2, which seemed to work!

There’s been some unpleasant stuff on social media. Cast members getting pulled into discussions about a group of audience members who are accused of “bullying” anyone outside of their circle who gets too close to the show/cast. No idea if that translates to rowdiness but it’s a nasty business. 

That’s been one of the sources of arguments. No stage dooring but accusations that a select few are being allowed to meet Christina Bennington and Jordan Luke Gage after the show and someone has the photos to prove it (apparently).  It’s all very childish and pathetic. But thats probably because the individuals involved seem to be pathetic children.  Sadly CB seems to be another Carrie HF when it comes to her social media  which can only encourage this sort of rancid behaviour. 

Another thing that hugely bothered me about Heathers is the constant homophobic language. Now, as a gay guy, I'm fine with it being used as a laugh in the context of a show, right? I'm not sensitive at all when it comes to this, actually. It's just words and it doesn't really bother me. Legally Blonde's "Gay or European?" is a perfect example of this, right? Arguably somewhat offensive, but done respectfully and in a genuinely funny way. I felt that Heathers went too far. Continuous and repetitive chants of "homo" throughout the entire thing, clearly to get cheers from the crowd mentioned above. There were genuinely moments where I didn't feel I was in on the "joke" (for it wasn't a joke) and instead was the butt of it and moments where I genuinely felt uncomfortable.

Agreed. Truly a musical with no redeeming features at all IMHO. And SO cheap!

(Feel for teenagers now really who think this is the pinnacle of theatre compared to what those of us growing up in the 70s/80s/90s had.)

And the stage door/social media behaviour of the "fans" is just vile. Though they are caught up in everything that is bad in the social media age I suppose, and lost in it's insane frenzy, so perhaps not personally to blame; if feeling charitable!