Cast Announced For The Australian Premiere of Heathers The Musical

An exciting mix of seasoned stage performers and rising stars from Australia and New Zealand have been announced for the highly anticipated Australian tour of Heathers The Musical.

Based on the cult 1988 film starring Winona Ryder and Christian Slater, the high-octane black comedy rock musical arrives in Australia following record-breaking seasons in London and New York.

The musical follows Veronica Sawyer, a student at Westerberg High where popularity is a matter of life and death, who is unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, helping her dreams of popularity finally start to come true.

Outsider-turned-icon Veronica Sawyer is played by Emma Caporaso, who is making her mainstage debut after winning audiences with her powerhouse vocals as part of girl-group G-Nation on The Voice Australia. Opposite her, Conor Beaumont takes on the role of the dangerously charismatic J.D. Conor was most recently seen in the musical adaptation of American Psycho at Melbourne’s Chapel Off Chapel.

Calista Nelmes dons the iconic red scrunchie as queen bee Heather Chandler, bringing star power honed through roles in RENT, Jesus Christ Superstar and Jersey Boys. Amélia Rojas takes on Heather Duke, fresh from Chicago, while Abigail Sharp completes the iconic trio as Heather McNamara in her debut mainstage performance. Award-winning performer Mel O’Brien (FANGIRLS), who’s best known for her work as one half of musical comedy duo Mel & Sam, will bring her trademark humour to the role of Martha Dunnstock.

Heathers The Musical features music by award-winning writers Kevin Murphy (Desperate Housewives) and Laurence O’Keefe (Legally Blonde The Musical), and is directed by acclaimed American screen and stage director Andy Fickman.

Speaking about the show, Fickman said, “How very… excited we are about this brilliant cast who are bringing Westerberg High School to life Down Under! We truly were blown away by the exceptional level of talent we saw throughout our auditions.”

Heathers The Musical opens in Melbourne on April 8 before touring Sydney, Adelaide, the Gold Coast, Canberra and Perth as part of an Australia– New Zealand tour. In Sydney it will be showing at Western Sydney’s Coliseum Theatre from 26 August and then Sydney’s Roslyn Packer Theatre from 1 September.