The winner of WhatsOnStage's 2022 award for Best New Musical is coming to Cardiff next year. Heathers The Musical will be singing its way into the Wales Millennium Centre from August 22 to 26, 2023 - and tickets are on-sale now.
Confirming the booking, a statement on Wales Millennium Centre's Facebook page said: "Heathers The Musical 22 to 26 August 2023. Greetings and salutations! Following two smash-hit West End seasons and winning the WhatsOnStage award for Best New Musical, Heathers The Musical, the black comedy rock musical based on the eponymous 1988 film, comes to Cardiff."
Heathers (the film) was directed by Michael Lehmann and starred Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty. It followed the stories of four teenage girls - three of whom were called Heather - and how their lives changed after a classmate accidentally killed a friend, but staged the situation to look like a suicide.
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The stage adaptation of the film follows a similar plot, but whilst the film is rated Certificate-18, the production company behind the stage show have given it a recommended rating of age 14+. The synopsis for the show reads: "Westerberg High’s Veronica Sawyer is just another nobody dreaming of a better day. But when she joins the beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers and her dreams of popularity may finally come true, mysterious teen rebel JD teaches her that it might kill to be a nobody, but it is murder being a somebody."
Tickets start at £17 and are available to buy online directly from the Wales Millennium Centre website here.
The new show announcement comes just weeks after management at the Wales Millennium Centre confirmed a new venue 'Cabaret' is being built within the complex. The venue is set to open in February, 2023 and will host events every weekend showcasing the very best of comedy, drag and burlesque performances.
The opening season features collaborations with Cardiff Cabaret Club, Glitter Cymru, and The Queer Emporium and staff hope to make the venue a "safe space" for everyone to enjoy, no matter their background. Further performances are planned from Cwm Rag, a group of LGBTQ+ Welsh drag performers and translator-turned-comedian Steffan Alun is set to bring his bilingual comedy night 'Comedy Translates' to the venue later in the year.
Performances produced in-house will also run in the Cabaret venue. Among them, Luke Hereford’s heart-warming show 'Grandmother’s Closet' will take to the stage following an award-winning run at the Edinburgh Fringe, whilst Wales Millennium Centre's 'Queerway' show will debut telling the stories of several LGBTQ+ people from Rhondda Cynon Taf.
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