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Peyton List, whose TV credits see nan Paramount+ bid School Spirits and Netflix’s Cobra Kai, will return to nan shape later this period erstwhile she joins nan deed Off Broadway revival of Heathers The Musical.
Beginning Monday, January 26, List will return complete nan domiciled of Heather Chandler, presently being played by Jodie Steele. List joins a formed that includes Casey Likes, Kuhoo Verma, Jackera Davis, Elizabeth Teete, Kerry Butler, among others.
Since opening previews astatine New World Stages connected June 22 and officially opening July 10, Heathers, directed by Andy Fickman, has surgery nan location grounds 4 times arsenic good arsenic building nan largest beforehand successful nan venue’s 21-year history. The accumulation precocious extended its tally for nan 2nd clip and is playing done May 24, 2026.
“I’m drawn to characters who are powerful, complicated, and a small dangerous,” said List successful a statement. “Heather Chandler is an icon for a logic – she’s larger than life, hilarious, terrifying, and profoundly symbolic. Stepping into this domiciled is thrilling, and I can’t hold to participate my bad woman era. It’ll beryllium truthful very.”
List stars arsenic Maddie Nears successful Paramount+’s School Spirits, and serves arsenic Executive Producer. The bid returns for its 3rd play this month. On Netflix’s Cobra Kai, which ended its sixth and last play arsenic 1 of Netflix’s astir celebrated bid earlier this year, List played Tory Nichols.
Previously, List played Emma Ross connected Disney Channel’s Jessie earlier reprising nan characteristic successful nan spinoff bid Bunk’d. Other tv credits see Hulu’s supernatural thriller Light arsenic a Feather, nan dystopian feature The Thinning, and CBS’ Happy Together. Film credits see nan Netflix romanticist play Girl Haunts Boy, nan supernatural thriller The Inheritance other Bob Gunton, and nan sci-fi play Anthem of a Teenage Prophet.
Heathers features book, euphony and lyrics by Kevin Murphy (Reefer Madness The Musical) & Laurence O’Keefe (Legally Blonde The Musical, Bat Boy The Musical), based connected nan 1989 movie by Daniel Waters.
The cult movie starred Winona Ryder and Christian Slater (and Kim Walker successful nan Heather Chandler role), Heathers primitively opened successful Los Angeles for a sold-out tally successful 2013 and primitively transferred to Off Broadway’s New World Stages successful 2014. Heathers has had 3 West End productions and 3 tours, which person surgery container agency records passim nan UK and Ireland.
The synopsis: Welcome to Westerberg High, wherever fame is simply a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is conscionable different cipher dreaming of a amended day. But erstwhile she’s unexpectedly taken nether nan wings of The Heathers – 3 beautiful and impossibly sadistic classmates each named Heather – her dreams of fame yet commencement to travel true. That is until J.D., nan mysterious teen rebel, turns up and teaches her that it mightiness termination to beryllium a nobody, but it’s execution being a somebody.
Heathers is produced by Bill Kenwright Ltd., Paul Taylor-Mills, Jerry Goehring, Madison Mohn, Phil Kenny, Scott Prisand/Rob Kolson, The Broadway Investor’s Club, John Gore Organization, No Guarantees Productions, Willette and Manny Klausner, Aron Tomko and Gabe Alves, Carl Moellenberg, The Shubert Organization, Inc., Nick Padgett/Vasi Laurence, Andrew Patino/Chris Devlin, Richard Batchelder, David Alperson, Carlos Candal & Paul Mansfield, 42nd.club/SunnySpot Productions, annjen Productions/David Treatman Creative, Andrew Paradis/Kelly Lamor Wilson,Charlie Hitchcock/Ben Feldman, Michael Cohen/Robin Reinach, Jesse & Kathy McKendry, Alexander Robertson & Oliver Ives Indictor, Backstreets Productions, Louis Santor, Adam Cohen, and Nicholas Kaiser.
