"Heathers" Adaptation Bibliography

Apparatus (the sources)

Adapted text: Heathers: The Musical. (2018, September 23). Retrieved September 23, 2018, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathers:_The_Musical

This Wiki article gives a good synopsis of both acts of the musical, which I can use to compare to the plot of the movie. 

Original Text: Lehmann, M. (Director), Novi, D. D., & Hutman, J. (Producers), & Waters, D., Kenny, F., Newman, D., & Hollyn, N. (Writers). (1988). Heathers[Video file]. United States: New World Pictures.

The original film itself, for reference and to compare to the musical

Adapted text: Rock River Reparatory Theatre Company  (2018, January 07). Heathers: The Musical. Retrieved from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGvSRBXVP7w&index=9&list=PLNdEEi3B0_i30H_5Ok3nwk07S9Q5EWhbh&t=

      A performance of the musical from August 2017 (Uploaded at date above), for reference and comparison with the original film

All Musicals Are Adaptations. (2010). Retrieved September 23, 2018, from https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AllMusicalsAreAdaptations 

      Why movies are adapted into musicals

Evans, S. (2013). The Bard's best goes on why have musical adaptations of Shakespeare plays become so plentiful? American Theatre,30(8), 126-131. 

     Periodical that goes into how and why something not musical might be adapted into a musical

    Genre (Teen drama vs Musical drama)

Original Text: Zilberman, A. (2014, March 31). Still Very, 25 Years Later: The Bleak Genius of Heathers. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/03/still-very-25-years-later-the-bleak-genius-of-em-heathers-em/359828/ 

     This article analyzes the original movie, and comments on the musical in comparison

Adapted text: Heathers (Theatre). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/Heathers

     A comprehensive list of all the different tropes of musicals applied to this specific show, sometimes in contrast to the movie

Social History

Cato, J. (2018, May 18). Here's a list of every school shooting over the past 50 years. Retrieved September 24, 2018, from https://triblive.com/news/education/safety/13313060-74/heres-a-list-of-every-school-shooting-over-the-past-50-years

      List of school shootings in the U.S, to show the increase between the year the movie was released and the year the musical was first performed; this particular impacts, if not the message of the musical, the level of satire implied

Effgen, C. (n.d.). United States Crime Rates 1960 - 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2018, from http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm

      U.S. Crime statistics- they trend lower during the time of the musical than during the time of the movie, I'll need to compare how crime is represented in both and why