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

In a comment that couldn't possibly be related to this show in any way, I would just like to say that I love YouTube.

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I'm in the States so was able to watch the Roku proshot. The filming is excellent - a pretty seamless blend of the two performances with audiences and no-audience performances (which were not necessarily filmed in order). I think it captures what it is like to see the show live - and my daughter who saw this in June confirms this.
Note: there are breaks for commercials with graphics to break off - and some of the graphics are .... interesting and also laughable.

I like some of the songs - some of the performances - but the musical is not for me. Glad to have seen the proshot - don't need to see it again.

I really hope you mean the original cast cause the Bennington - Gage one was dreadful.

I did finally get to see the new cast last week and thought they did a great job.

There does seem to be a lot of determination to play the roles differently to the previously cast, so that will take a bit of getting used to. I always appreciated Ailsa's generally toned back performance.

They have gone for an exceptionally good looking cast this time around, which is always a bonus.

The continuing cast is there as well, of course, and they are all excellent in their roles. I was also lucky enough to see Georgia Gagen on as Heather Chandler. She was perfect too.

It was so nice to be in the theatre where the audience respected the opening silence (and it is the only one I've been to which has played the National Anthem - quite an odd transition then to Westerberg for the start of the show).

I'm keeping my eye open in case Elliot David Parkes gets to make his JD debut. I have high expectations for him. Otherwise, I'm sure I'll be back before too long.

Three cover Heathers today, Elliot as JD, three returning cast members! Yes, Hannah Lowther is back! Excited!

Got to say it was a near perfect show. Erin and Elliot have a natural chemistry together as the two leads. I thought Erin sounded fantastic and was really on this performance and she came across as a much more natural Veronica to when I saw her last time (I also saw some tweets which suggested she'd had a bad day before, which happens to all of us). Elliot is now my 10th JD and he played this slow and deliberate. Great voice too. As has so often happened during this run, I've preferred the Beleaguered Geek cover take on JD to the main lead (but I'd really need to see Nathanael more settled in to make a fair assessment).

There are only two male and two female ensemble members, so it was back like the old days.

Rory was back unexpectedly as Ram, paired with Tobias as Kurt, another great pairing.

We had Christopher Parkinson back in the male ensemble, on form again (the other male ensemble being Lewis Asquith).

Female ensemble were May Tether and Bayley Hart. May did her usual excellent job of keeping all the performances tight (and even the few times where people were inventing dance moves didn't look out of place).

This show was really about the Heathers, led by the returning Hannah Lowther as Heather Chandler. She can do no wrong! Eleanor Morrison-Halliday was on as Heather Duke. I've seen her cover this role a few times and she is also perfect. Then there was Billie Bowman making her (second cover) debut as Heather McNamara. I doubt she could have had much of an opportunity to rehearse. Great job, she had people cheering her and people standing after Lifeboat, plus lots of applause and centre stage bowing at the end of the show.

As I say, excellent all around and I would very happily watch this combination of cast again. But let's see who is available for shows for this coming week! A lot of shows are pulling in emergency covers, so there must be bugs going around.

Forgot to add, I had a very narrow escape today as Steve was sat right behind me. He was nice and enthusiastic so he got a lot more applause than usual.

I did hear the woman he was with apologising to him after the show.

The recent JD accent choices have been rather odd. I guess the idea is JD has travelled widely so could have picked up an accent from anywhere.

I also nipped into Waitrose after the show and emerged to nearly walk into one of the cast who was trying (I presume) to find a quiet place away from the fans for a chat and a smoke. I wouldn't dream of bothering them. Having seen the excited queues by the stage door, I always get away from that area as quickly as I can, so I'm not surprised at cast members wanting to do the same.

Things must really be bad today as they're doing Heathers in a concert version (not there, but please report back if you are)!

This transferring to the West End is financial suicide (as was proven by the original Haymarket in 2018)

If the show couldn't maintain a West End run with the original cast of theatre names, there's absolutely no way it can do it with the cast it has now. It only worked at the Haymarket in the summer of 2021 because...there was basically nothing else to see.

If it must still be playing - TOP is the only place that makes sense, but I'd much rather have TOP back for a different show...

I also find it disgusting that after they did their "concert" version of the show, they told WestEndCovers that they can't post about Heathers anymore as sometimes it's 'inaccurate information'.

PTM has always lacked appreciation for swings/covers. Even though they're the ones keeping the show afloat. Why hire people when you can give previous cast members a phone. It's sickening.

Sorry but for me that’s refund worthy, you didn’t get the show you paid for.