One night in early September, something seemingly strange happened at New World Stages in Midtown Manhattan: the entire audience at Heathers: The Musical , in a direct rebuke of standard theater decorum, was singing along with the actors onstage. In most cases, such flagrant rule-breaking would be a nightmare for the cast, but it turned out the event had been fully sanctioned and carefully planned. As an acknowledgment of the show’s massive and ever-growing fandom, Heathers hosted a one-night-only Big Fun Day, where the crowd was encouraged to sing along to specific sections of the score.

“We honestly didn’t know what to expect, because it’s a wild thing to just sort of carry on doing your show while you have 500 people working with you. But it was really beautiful,” says Elizabeth Te

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