Can't We Be Seventeen?
We can learn how to chill It finally happened! She’s 17! I’ve been excited to turn this age forever given how culturally significant 17 is in musical theatre. Jack Kelly from Newsies was 17, there’s a song in the musical Tuck Everlasting called 17, Be More Chills Jeremy Heere is 17, it’s basically the age for all teenager-centric musicals. But today, I’m here to talk about a different, far darker show that touches heavily on the theme of being 17. That show is Heathers: The Musical . Based on the 1989 cult classic film, Heathers: The Musical is an unapologetically sharp, chaotic, and strangely heartfelt exploration of high school’s social hierarchies. It’s a world where popularity is everything, where cafeteria seating arrangements determine your worth, and where teenage angst can literally turn deadly. The story follows Veronica Sawyer, an ordinary teen who finds herself pulled into the orbit of the Heathers, three impossibly popular girls who rule Westerberg Hi...