<Tr> <Th> Basis </Th> <Td> 1988 film Heathers </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Productions </Th> <Td> 2010 New York Concert 2013 Hollywood 2014 Off - Broadway 2015 San Francisco Sydney 2017 Off West End </Td> </Tr> <P> Heathers: The Musical is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy and based on the 1988 cult film Heathers . After a sold - out Los Angeles tryout, the show had a production Off - Broadway in 2014 . The show, while a comedy, deals with issues of teen suicide, murder, bullying, and violence . </P> <P> It is the first day of school, 1989, and seventeen - year - old Veronica Sawyer is frustrated with the hellish competitive social hierarchy at Westerburg High School, where nerds and underclassmen are pushed around by brutish jocks like Ram Sweeney and Kurt Kelly . After trying to defend her best friend, the cheerful, overweight Martha Dunnstock (cruelly renamed "Martha Dumptruck" by Kurt), Veronica longs for the days of elementary school when life was simple and everyone was friends . She wishes desperately to be above the drama, but there is only one elite clique who can do that: the Heathers, the three most beautiful, most popular girls in school: the weak - willed head cheerleader Heather McNamara; the bulimic, personality - lacking yearbook committee head Heather Duke; and the "mythic bitch queen" of the school, Heather Chandler . When Veronica uses her talents as a forger to get the Heathers out of detention, Chandler recognizes her potential and gives her a make - over, elevating her to a member of their inner circle ("Beautiful"). </P>

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