[THE HEATHERS part, revealing a smoking hot VERONICA who has been given a make-over.] [VERONICA] Just not today
Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick I rented "The Princess Bride." [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Somebody fix me! We were kind before; We loved that it’s a word that can be used sarcastically, as Dan does in his screenplay, but it’s also an aspirational word. [KIDS] [KIDS]
[VERONICA] White trash! (sung) (Beautiful!)
KIDS: Freak! [KURT, spoken] Life can be beautiful Ram Sweeney. [REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL] “Beautiful” came out of a desire to answer that question and explain the social pressures that drove a kind, bright and sensitive young woman like Veronica to start changing herself to try to belong to the alien world of the popular kids. [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] Very early in our writing process, we made a list of ideas from the film that might lend themselves to songs. He is the smartest guy on the football team. Veronica? [RAM, spoken] Ho-ho-ho, again?
We on for movie night? [VERONICA, spoken] Veronica! [VERONICA] Wait, don't you have it memorized by now? [VERONICA, spoken] And Heather Chandler, the Almighty
Somebody save me! I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend. [KIDS] Bulimia is so '87. What can I say? Just once. [KURT, spoken] I said, so, you teach people how to spread their wings and fly? I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me?
Watch it!
How about prescriptions? [KIDS] [RAM, spoken] [KIDS] She gives the audience her goals to try and see the beautiful things in life and people despite their destructive personalities. Poser! [RAM] (Ooohhhh!)
Why… Veronica! Beautiful Lyrics from Heathers musical. Hahaaa! And a babe! (spoken) Grow up, Heather. Quarterback. Let's make her beautiful... [MS. FLEMING, spoken] [GOWAN & COACH] ...I see you're all listed.
Okay? Like the Huns invading Rome
Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown Life can be beautiful Who are you? And Heather, I need your brush Slut! I crave a boon For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure And ya know, ya know, ya know? Martha Dunnstock. [HEATHER DUKE vomits.] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]
Bug-eyes! [A PREPPY STUD knocks a HIPSTER DORK to the floor.] What can I say? [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] You want to fuck with the eagles, you have to learn to fly. Poser! [VERONICA, (KIDS)] [HEATHER CHANDLER inspects VERONICA'S face.] Mmmm... [VERONICA, spoken]
If we changed back then, we could change again [RAM upends VERONICA'S lunch tray.]
You know, I think that there's good in everyone. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants Ram Sweeney. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. I don't want trouble— Whoa Veronica! My best friend since diapers. The word “beautiful” was at the top. [BELEAGUERED GEEK]
Ho-ho-ho, again? Get away, nerd
Hunchback!
College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June! Burnout! [KIDS] Sorry, Heather
[KIDS] Quarterback. If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone... Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips, and absence notes, For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure, And a symmetrical face. Baking cookies, eating paste We love the original film, so it was important to us to honor the plot, but one question Dan Waters chose not to answer in his screenplay was how, when, and where Veronica got invited to join the three Heathers. [MS. FLEMING, spoken] Dear Diary: (spoken) Somebody hug me!
[VERONICA, spoken]
[Another day, another hellish lunch.] ...and Heather. [MARTHA, spoken]
I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me? I said, you’re beautiful. [KURT] Ooooh... Heather! We were so tiny, happy and shiny They float above it all [RAM] And a symmetrical face.
[KIDS] If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone... If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. [MARTHA approaches.] Kurt Kelly. (Oooh...) That means new verses and important events show up a beat earlier than expected, crashing the party too soon. [VERONICA, spoken] [THE HEATHERS enter again...] [HEATHER MCNAMARA, sung] Veronica! Haha!
Let's make her beautiful... [REPUBLICAN GIRL] I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend.
[STONER CHICK, spoken]
[KURT, spoken] Heather!
Just once. [VERONICA, spoken] [KIDS, spoken]
[VERONICA, spoken] Singing and clapping, laughing and napping She is a mythic bitch Lard-ass! Why did I hit him?
[MARTHA, spoken] Bull-dyke! Ask me how it feels VERONICA: [Spoken] September 1st, 1989. [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] HEATHER CHANDLER and MCNAMARA are watching HEATHER DUKE vomit into a toilet.] Freak! [VERONICA] For a better way Veronica?! I pray, I pray
Veronicaaaaa! (Aaahhh! Heather! You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but—here we are! Heather wasn't feeling well. Heather McNamara, head cheerleader.
If I sat at their table, guys would notice me Wake from this coma, take my diploma I know, I know... [STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING & BLOW-DRIED PREPPY] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]
Shut up, Heather Okay! [RAM, spoken] You're a high school has-been waiting to happen.
Why.... (Aaahhh!) For a better way Honnnnnk! Yeah, Heather. Why do I cry myself to sleep? [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Freak! Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather But I know, I know, life can be beautiful. Make her beautiful... Homo! Soundtrack listing. Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze! [VERONICA]
(sung) Dear diary: Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail
He is the smartest guy on the football team. Heather, Heather, and Heather! Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school Veronica! [VERONICA, spoken] Let me sit at your table, at lunch. Freak! [VERONICA, spoken] Hurry up and get where you're going This could be beautiful The song sets the stage for what environment these characters have dwelled in for the last three years, which is the worst parts of high school to the extreme. Poser! ...You have a zit right there... Um, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. [KIDS] I pray, I pray
(Aaahhh!) Meaning, the intro vamp that weaves throughout the song is only 15 beats long, instead of a symmetrical 16 (so every fourth measure is a ¾ bar instead of a 4/4). Shortbus! That's very important
We can be kind once more
[VERONICA, spoken]
Why do they hate me? Send me a sign, God! Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés
Ooooops
Mascara, maybe some lip gloss Wide load! I believe I'm a good person. [KURT and KIDS laugh] Heather! So beautiful... [VERONICA, spoken] (sung) [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June! Out of my way, geek! We both saw a girl trying to make her world better and more just. [VERONICA, spoken] [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Yearbook committee. [HEATHER CHANDLER, sung] What did I ever do to them? Maybe I should I would give anything to be like that Uh... Veronica Sawyer.
Song lyrics to Broadway show.
[VERONICA enters the girls' bathroom.
Yes, I am.
[VERONICA, spoken] [HEATHER MCNAMARA, spoken] [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Veronica? This song clarifies what was omitted in Dan Waters' screenplay for the film: how Veronica joined the three Heathers. I think I'm dying! Get away, pervert!
I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened?
I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened? [The three HEATHERS enter.] That would be beautiful...
And then there's the Heathers. Her dad is loaded—he sells engagement rings Playing tag and getting chased Yes, I am.
Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon Why…
[THE HEATHERS part, revealing a smoking hot VERONICA who has been given a make-over.] [VERONICA] Just not today
Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick I rented "The Princess Bride." [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Somebody fix me! We were kind before; We loved that it’s a word that can be used sarcastically, as Dan does in his screenplay, but it’s also an aspirational word. [KIDS] [KIDS]
[VERONICA] White trash! (sung) (Beautiful!)
KIDS: Freak! [KURT, spoken] Life can be beautiful Ram Sweeney. [REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL] “Beautiful” came out of a desire to answer that question and explain the social pressures that drove a kind, bright and sensitive young woman like Veronica to start changing herself to try to belong to the alien world of the popular kids. [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] Very early in our writing process, we made a list of ideas from the film that might lend themselves to songs. He is the smartest guy on the football team. Veronica? [RAM, spoken] Ho-ho-ho, again?
We on for movie night? [VERONICA, spoken] Veronica! [VERONICA] Wait, don't you have it memorized by now? [VERONICA, spoken] And Heather Chandler, the Almighty
Somebody save me! I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend. [KIDS] Bulimia is so '87. What can I say? Just once. [KURT, spoken] I said, so, you teach people how to spread their wings and fly? I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me?
Watch it!
How about prescriptions? [KIDS] [RAM, spoken] [KIDS] She gives the audience her goals to try and see the beautiful things in life and people despite their destructive personalities. Poser! [RAM] (Ooohhhh!)
Why… Veronica! Beautiful Lyrics from Heathers musical. Hahaaa! And a babe! (spoken) Grow up, Heather. Quarterback. Let's make her beautiful... [MS. FLEMING, spoken] [GOWAN & COACH] ...I see you're all listed.
Okay? Like the Huns invading Rome
Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown Life can be beautiful Who are you? And Heather, I need your brush Slut! I crave a boon For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure And ya know, ya know, ya know? Martha Dunnstock. [HEATHER DUKE vomits.] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]
Bug-eyes! [A PREPPY STUD knocks a HIPSTER DORK to the floor.] What can I say? [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] You want to fuck with the eagles, you have to learn to fly. Poser! [VERONICA, (KIDS)] [HEATHER CHANDLER inspects VERONICA'S face.] Mmmm... [VERONICA, spoken]
If we changed back then, we could change again [RAM upends VERONICA'S lunch tray.]
You know, I think that there's good in everyone. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants Ram Sweeney. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. I don't want trouble— Whoa Veronica! My best friend since diapers. The word “beautiful” was at the top. [BELEAGUERED GEEK]
Ho-ho-ho, again? Get away, nerd
Hunchback!
College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June! Burnout! [KIDS] Sorry, Heather
[KIDS] Quarterback. If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone... Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips, and absence notes, For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure, And a symmetrical face. Baking cookies, eating paste We love the original film, so it was important to us to honor the plot, but one question Dan Waters chose not to answer in his screenplay was how, when, and where Veronica got invited to join the three Heathers. [MS. FLEMING, spoken] Dear Diary: (spoken) Somebody hug me!
[VERONICA, spoken]
[Another day, another hellish lunch.] ...and Heather. [MARTHA, spoken]
I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me? I said, you’re beautiful. [KURT] Ooooh... Heather! We were so tiny, happy and shiny They float above it all [RAM] And a symmetrical face.
[KIDS] If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone... If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. [MARTHA approaches.] Kurt Kelly. (Oooh...) That means new verses and important events show up a beat earlier than expected, crashing the party too soon. [VERONICA, spoken] [THE HEATHERS enter again...] [HEATHER MCNAMARA, sung] Veronica! Haha!
Let's make her beautiful... [REPUBLICAN GIRL] I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend.
[STONER CHICK, spoken]
[KURT, spoken] Heather!
Just once. [VERONICA, spoken] [KIDS, spoken]
[VERONICA, spoken] Singing and clapping, laughing and napping She is a mythic bitch Lard-ass! Why did I hit him?
[MARTHA, spoken] Bull-dyke! Ask me how it feels VERONICA: [Spoken] September 1st, 1989. [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] HEATHER CHANDLER and MCNAMARA are watching HEATHER DUKE vomit into a toilet.] Freak! [VERONICA] For a better way Veronica?! I pray, I pray
Veronicaaaaa! (Aaahhh! Heather! You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but—here we are! Heather wasn't feeling well. Heather McNamara, head cheerleader.
If I sat at their table, guys would notice me Wake from this coma, take my diploma I know, I know... [STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING & BLOW-DRIED PREPPY] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]
Shut up, Heather Okay! [RAM, spoken] You're a high school has-been waiting to happen.
Why.... (Aaahhh!) For a better way Honnnnnk! Yeah, Heather. Why do I cry myself to sleep? [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Freak! Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather But I know, I know, life can be beautiful. Make her beautiful... Homo! Soundtrack listing. Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze! [VERONICA]
(sung) Dear diary: Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail
He is the smartest guy on the football team. Heather, Heather, and Heather! Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school Veronica! [VERONICA, spoken] Let me sit at your table, at lunch. Freak! [VERONICA, spoken] Hurry up and get where you're going This could be beautiful The song sets the stage for what environment these characters have dwelled in for the last three years, which is the worst parts of high school to the extreme. Poser! ...You have a zit right there... Um, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. [KIDS] I pray, I pray
(Aaahhh!) Meaning, the intro vamp that weaves throughout the song is only 15 beats long, instead of a symmetrical 16 (so every fourth measure is a ¾ bar instead of a 4/4). Shortbus! That's very important
We can be kind once more
[VERONICA, spoken]
Why do they hate me? Send me a sign, God! Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés
Ooooops
Mascara, maybe some lip gloss Wide load! I believe I'm a good person. [KURT and KIDS laugh] Heather! So beautiful... [VERONICA, spoken] (sung) [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June! Out of my way, geek! We both saw a girl trying to make her world better and more just. [VERONICA, spoken] [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Yearbook committee. [HEATHER CHANDLER, sung] What did I ever do to them? Maybe I should I would give anything to be like that Uh... Veronica Sawyer.
Song lyrics to Broadway show.
[VERONICA enters the girls' bathroom.
Yes, I am.
[VERONICA, spoken] [HEATHER MCNAMARA, spoken] [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Veronica? This song clarifies what was omitted in Dan Waters' screenplay for the film: how Veronica joined the three Heathers. I think I'm dying! Get away, pervert!
I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened?
I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened? [The three HEATHERS enter.] That would be beautiful...
And then there's the Heathers. Her dad is loaded—he sells engagement rings Playing tag and getting chased Yes, I am.
Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon Why…
[THE HEATHERS part, revealing a smoking hot VERONICA who has been given a make-over.] [VERONICA] Just not today
Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick I rented "The Princess Bride." [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Somebody fix me! We were kind before; We loved that it’s a word that can be used sarcastically, as Dan does in his screenplay, but it’s also an aspirational word. [KIDS] [KIDS]
[VERONICA] White trash! (sung) (Beautiful!)
KIDS: Freak! [KURT, spoken] Life can be beautiful Ram Sweeney. [REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL] “Beautiful” came out of a desire to answer that question and explain the social pressures that drove a kind, bright and sensitive young woman like Veronica to start changing herself to try to belong to the alien world of the popular kids. [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] Very early in our writing process, we made a list of ideas from the film that might lend themselves to songs. He is the smartest guy on the football team. Veronica? [RAM, spoken] Ho-ho-ho, again?
We on for movie night? [VERONICA, spoken] Veronica! [VERONICA] Wait, don't you have it memorized by now? [VERONICA, spoken] And Heather Chandler, the Almighty
Somebody save me! I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend. [KIDS] Bulimia is so '87. What can I say? Just once. [KURT, spoken] I said, so, you teach people how to spread their wings and fly? I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me?
Watch it!
How about prescriptions? [KIDS] [RAM, spoken] [KIDS] She gives the audience her goals to try and see the beautiful things in life and people despite their destructive personalities. Poser! [RAM] (Ooohhhh!)
Why… Veronica! Beautiful Lyrics from Heathers musical. Hahaaa! And a babe! (spoken) Grow up, Heather. Quarterback. Let's make her beautiful... [MS. FLEMING, spoken] [GOWAN & COACH] ...I see you're all listed.
Okay? Like the Huns invading Rome
Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown Life can be beautiful Who are you? And Heather, I need your brush Slut! I crave a boon For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure And ya know, ya know, ya know? Martha Dunnstock. [HEATHER DUKE vomits.] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]
Bug-eyes! [A PREPPY STUD knocks a HIPSTER DORK to the floor.] What can I say? [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] You want to fuck with the eagles, you have to learn to fly. Poser! [VERONICA, (KIDS)] [HEATHER CHANDLER inspects VERONICA'S face.] Mmmm... [VERONICA, spoken]
If we changed back then, we could change again [RAM upends VERONICA'S lunch tray.]
You know, I think that there's good in everyone. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants Ram Sweeney. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. I don't want trouble— Whoa Veronica! My best friend since diapers. The word “beautiful” was at the top. [BELEAGUERED GEEK]
Ho-ho-ho, again? Get away, nerd
Hunchback!
College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June! Burnout! [KIDS] Sorry, Heather
[KIDS] Quarterback. If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone... Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips, and absence notes, For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure, And a symmetrical face. Baking cookies, eating paste We love the original film, so it was important to us to honor the plot, but one question Dan Waters chose not to answer in his screenplay was how, when, and where Veronica got invited to join the three Heathers. [MS. FLEMING, spoken] Dear Diary: (spoken) Somebody hug me!
[VERONICA, spoken]
[Another day, another hellish lunch.] ...and Heather. [MARTHA, spoken]
I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me? I said, you’re beautiful. [KURT] Ooooh... Heather! We were so tiny, happy and shiny They float above it all [RAM] And a symmetrical face.
[KIDS] If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone... If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. [MARTHA approaches.] Kurt Kelly. (Oooh...) That means new verses and important events show up a beat earlier than expected, crashing the party too soon. [VERONICA, spoken] [THE HEATHERS enter again...] [HEATHER MCNAMARA, sung] Veronica! Haha!
Let's make her beautiful... [REPUBLICAN GIRL] I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend.
[STONER CHICK, spoken]
[KURT, spoken] Heather!
Just once. [VERONICA, spoken] [KIDS, spoken]
[VERONICA, spoken] Singing and clapping, laughing and napping She is a mythic bitch Lard-ass! Why did I hit him?
[MARTHA, spoken] Bull-dyke! Ask me how it feels VERONICA: [Spoken] September 1st, 1989. [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] HEATHER CHANDLER and MCNAMARA are watching HEATHER DUKE vomit into a toilet.] Freak! [VERONICA] For a better way Veronica?! I pray, I pray
Veronicaaaaa! (Aaahhh! Heather! You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but—here we are! Heather wasn't feeling well. Heather McNamara, head cheerleader.
If I sat at their table, guys would notice me Wake from this coma, take my diploma I know, I know... [STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING & BLOW-DRIED PREPPY] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]
Shut up, Heather Okay! [RAM, spoken] You're a high school has-been waiting to happen.
Why.... (Aaahhh!) For a better way Honnnnnk! Yeah, Heather. Why do I cry myself to sleep? [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Freak! Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather But I know, I know, life can be beautiful. Make her beautiful... Homo! Soundtrack listing. Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze! [VERONICA]
(sung) Dear diary: Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail
He is the smartest guy on the football team. Heather, Heather, and Heather! Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school Veronica! [VERONICA, spoken] Let me sit at your table, at lunch. Freak! [VERONICA, spoken] Hurry up and get where you're going This could be beautiful The song sets the stage for what environment these characters have dwelled in for the last three years, which is the worst parts of high school to the extreme. Poser! ...You have a zit right there... Um, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. [KIDS] I pray, I pray
(Aaahhh!) Meaning, the intro vamp that weaves throughout the song is only 15 beats long, instead of a symmetrical 16 (so every fourth measure is a ¾ bar instead of a 4/4). Shortbus! That's very important
We can be kind once more
[VERONICA, spoken]
Why do they hate me? Send me a sign, God! Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés
Ooooops
Mascara, maybe some lip gloss Wide load! I believe I'm a good person. [KURT and KIDS laugh] Heather! So beautiful... [VERONICA, spoken] (sung) [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June! Out of my way, geek! We both saw a girl trying to make her world better and more just. [VERONICA, spoken] [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Yearbook committee. [HEATHER CHANDLER, sung] What did I ever do to them? Maybe I should I would give anything to be like that Uh... Veronica Sawyer.
Song lyrics to Broadway show.
[VERONICA enters the girls' bathroom.
Yes, I am.
[VERONICA, spoken] [HEATHER MCNAMARA, spoken] [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Veronica? This song clarifies what was omitted in Dan Waters' screenplay for the film: how Veronica joined the three Heathers. I think I'm dying! Get away, pervert!
I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened?
I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened? [The three HEATHERS enter.] That would be beautiful...
And then there's the Heathers. Her dad is loaded—he sells engagement rings Playing tag and getting chased Yes, I am.
Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon Why…
I'm a sucker for a happy ending, Kurt Kelly. I'd like to be their boyfriend Oh, sorry! No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants, They're solid Teflon—never bothered, never harassed, If I sat at their table, guys would notice me, I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse and leave her tied up for the rats. [BELEAGUERED GEEK, spoken] Who's that with Heather?
Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick, Martha Dunnstock. She said, real life sucks losers dry. That's very important, Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds, Beautiful by Riverdale Cast (Ft. Ashleigh Murray, Bernadette Beck, Camila Mendes, Casey Cott, Charles Melton, Cole Sprouse, Drew Ray Tanner, Jordan Connor, KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Madelaine Petsch & Zoé de Grand’Maison), Lindo by Rafael Oliveira (versionista) (Ft. Ana Araújo, Ana Luiza Ferreira, Elenco de "Heathers: O Musical", Gigi Debei, Isa Castro, Lucas Colombo, Luisa Phoenix, Roberto Justino & Verônica Goeldi), Veronica’s Chandler Nightmare (Non-Album Track). I pray, I pray for a better way It helps keep audiences off-balance, showing that these characters are often hurried and harried, and that this world is out of joint. You're a high school has-been waiting to happen. Burnout! [VERONICA jostles RAM SWEENEY.] What did you say to me, skank? [HEATHER MCNAMARA, spoken]
[THE HEATHERS part, revealing a smoking hot VERONICA who has been given a make-over.] [VERONICA] Just not today
Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick I rented "The Princess Bride." [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Somebody fix me! We were kind before; We loved that it’s a word that can be used sarcastically, as Dan does in his screenplay, but it’s also an aspirational word. [KIDS] [KIDS]
[VERONICA] White trash! (sung) (Beautiful!)
KIDS: Freak! [KURT, spoken] Life can be beautiful Ram Sweeney. [REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL] “Beautiful” came out of a desire to answer that question and explain the social pressures that drove a kind, bright and sensitive young woman like Veronica to start changing herself to try to belong to the alien world of the popular kids. [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] Very early in our writing process, we made a list of ideas from the film that might lend themselves to songs. He is the smartest guy on the football team. Veronica? [RAM, spoken] Ho-ho-ho, again?
We on for movie night? [VERONICA, spoken] Veronica! [VERONICA] Wait, don't you have it memorized by now? [VERONICA, spoken] And Heather Chandler, the Almighty
Somebody save me! I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend. [KIDS] Bulimia is so '87. What can I say? Just once. [KURT, spoken] I said, so, you teach people how to spread their wings and fly? I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me?
Watch it!
How about prescriptions? [KIDS] [RAM, spoken] [KIDS] She gives the audience her goals to try and see the beautiful things in life and people despite their destructive personalities. Poser! [RAM] (Ooohhhh!)
Why… Veronica! Beautiful Lyrics from Heathers musical. Hahaaa! And a babe! (spoken) Grow up, Heather. Quarterback. Let's make her beautiful... [MS. FLEMING, spoken] [GOWAN & COACH] ...I see you're all listed.
Okay? Like the Huns invading Rome
Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown Life can be beautiful Who are you? And Heather, I need your brush Slut! I crave a boon For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure And ya know, ya know, ya know? Martha Dunnstock. [HEATHER DUKE vomits.] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]
Bug-eyes! [A PREPPY STUD knocks a HIPSTER DORK to the floor.] What can I say? [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] You want to fuck with the eagles, you have to learn to fly. Poser! [VERONICA, (KIDS)] [HEATHER CHANDLER inspects VERONICA'S face.] Mmmm... [VERONICA, spoken]
If we changed back then, we could change again [RAM upends VERONICA'S lunch tray.]
You know, I think that there's good in everyone. No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants Ram Sweeney. If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. I don't want trouble— Whoa Veronica! My best friend since diapers. The word “beautiful” was at the top. [BELEAGUERED GEEK]
Ho-ho-ho, again? Get away, nerd
Hunchback!
College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June! Burnout! [KIDS] Sorry, Heather
[KIDS] Quarterback. If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone... Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips, and absence notes, For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure, And a symmetrical face. Baking cookies, eating paste We love the original film, so it was important to us to honor the plot, but one question Dan Waters chose not to answer in his screenplay was how, when, and where Veronica got invited to join the three Heathers. [MS. FLEMING, spoken] Dear Diary: (spoken) Somebody hug me!
[VERONICA, spoken]
[Another day, another hellish lunch.] ...and Heather. [MARTHA, spoken]
I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me? I said, you’re beautiful. [KURT] Ooooh... Heather! We were so tiny, happy and shiny They float above it all [RAM] And a symmetrical face.
[KIDS] If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone... If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves. [MARTHA approaches.] Kurt Kelly. (Oooh...) That means new verses and important events show up a beat earlier than expected, crashing the party too soon. [VERONICA, spoken] [THE HEATHERS enter again...] [HEATHER MCNAMARA, sung] Veronica! Haha!
Let's make her beautiful... [REPUBLICAN GIRL] I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend.
[STONER CHICK, spoken]
[KURT, spoken] Heather!
Just once. [VERONICA, spoken] [KIDS, spoken]
[VERONICA, spoken] Singing and clapping, laughing and napping She is a mythic bitch Lard-ass! Why did I hit him?
[MARTHA, spoken] Bull-dyke! Ask me how it feels VERONICA: [Spoken] September 1st, 1989. [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] HEATHER CHANDLER and MCNAMARA are watching HEATHER DUKE vomit into a toilet.] Freak! [VERONICA] For a better way Veronica?! I pray, I pray
Veronicaaaaa! (Aaahhh! Heather! You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but—here we are! Heather wasn't feeling well. Heather McNamara, head cheerleader.
If I sat at their table, guys would notice me Wake from this coma, take my diploma I know, I know... [STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING & BLOW-DRIED PREPPY] [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]
Shut up, Heather Okay! [RAM, spoken] You're a high school has-been waiting to happen.
Why.... (Aaahhh!) For a better way Honnnnnk! Yeah, Heather. Why do I cry myself to sleep? [HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken] Freak! Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather But I know, I know, life can be beautiful. Make her beautiful... Homo! Soundtrack listing. Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze! [VERONICA]
(sung) Dear diary: Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail
He is the smartest guy on the football team. Heather, Heather, and Heather! Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school Veronica! [VERONICA, spoken] Let me sit at your table, at lunch. Freak! [VERONICA, spoken] Hurry up and get where you're going This could be beautiful The song sets the stage for what environment these characters have dwelled in for the last three years, which is the worst parts of high school to the extreme. Poser! ...You have a zit right there... Um, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass. [KIDS] I pray, I pray
(Aaahhh!) Meaning, the intro vamp that weaves throughout the song is only 15 beats long, instead of a symmetrical 16 (so every fourth measure is a ¾ bar instead of a 4/4). Shortbus! That's very important
We can be kind once more
[VERONICA, spoken]
Why do they hate me? Send me a sign, God! Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés
Ooooops
Mascara, maybe some lip gloss Wide load! I believe I'm a good person. [KURT and KIDS laugh] Heather! So beautiful... [VERONICA, spoken] (sung) [HIPSTER DORK, spoken] College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June! Out of my way, geek! We both saw a girl trying to make her world better and more just. [VERONICA, spoken] [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Yearbook committee. [HEATHER CHANDLER, sung] What did I ever do to them? Maybe I should I would give anything to be like that Uh... Veronica Sawyer.
Song lyrics to Broadway show.
[VERONICA enters the girls' bathroom.
Yes, I am.
[VERONICA, spoken] [HEATHER MCNAMARA, spoken] [HEATHER DUKE, spoken] Veronica? This song clarifies what was omitted in Dan Waters' screenplay for the film: how Veronica joined the three Heathers. I think I'm dying! Get away, pervert!
I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened?
I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself—what happened? [The three HEATHERS enter.] That would be beautiful...
And then there's the Heathers. Her dad is loaded—he sells engagement rings Playing tag and getting chased Yes, I am.
Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon Why…
