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Ram’s Head Theatrical Society’s “Heathers” isn’t your average Zoom musical.
Granted, the term “average Zoom musical” is a bit of an oxymoron. Theater, after all, was not designed for a video conferencing platform; it is meant to be enjoyed live and in-person a communal experience in which actors and audiences briefly enter a new world.
But although the cast of “Heathers” sang from their separate dorm rooms and childhood bedrooms, and audience members watched from their laptop screens, Sunday night’s performance found a way to recreate that transformative theatrical magic.
The show follows high school senior Veronica Sawyer (an astonishing Junah Jang ’24) as she joins a clique of the titular Heathers (Maliha Yousuf ’24, Tyah-Amoy Roberts ’23 and Isabella Juarez ’23 all wonderfully confident and charismatic) and navigates the toxic masculinity of football jocks Ram Sweeney and Kurt Kelly (brought hilariously to life by Cainan Cole ’20 M.S. ’21