Plays and musicals often use costumes to portray certain characteristics or aspects of a character to give the audience insight and depth into the characters personality or life. Many popular productions in the United States have clear purpose for costume and makeup when it comes to the main characters. Musicals and plays like Heathers, Hamilton, Next to Normal use costume design in order to portray the characters wearing them through various mediums. Heathers is a musical written by Kevin Murphy and Laurence "Larry" O'Keefe in 2014 based on the film from 1989 (“Heathers the Musical (Musical) Plot & Characters”). The musical is a story about a girl, Veronica, trying to fit in at her high school by leaving behind her friends to be a part of
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Veronica’s color throughout the musical is blue. The color blue is most commonly associated with sadness or even a lack of emotion. Veronica is a depressed and apathetic but quirky character as is proven through her blue clothing throughout the musical (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, Lorenzo). Her costume stays in line with the solid color common with the Heathers but Veronica’s style is more unique and less conformed which stays in line with her character as she tries but fails to fully act like and “become” a Heather Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, Lorenzo). At the end of the musical, Veronica is seen wearing the red scrunchie originally worn by Heather Chandler to indicate her rise in power and status after the defeat of the antagonist, J.D. (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, …show more content…
Green is most commonly associated with envy or jealousy so it would make sense for Heather D. to be wearing this color (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, Lorenzo). It is clear, through her actions (and costume) that she is jealous of Heather Chandler throughout the musical so her green represents the envy she has for wanting to be the leading Heather and in charge (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, Lorenzo). After the first climactic scene in the musical in which Heather Chandler is murdered, Heather is seen at school wearing, not only the red scrunchie that belonged to Heather C., but an entirely red outfit, to show her satisfaction with having been put into power (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez,
Veronica’s color throughout the musical is blue. The color blue is most commonly associated with sadness or even a lack of emotion. Veronica is a depressed and apathetic but quirky character as is proven through her blue clothing throughout the musical (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, Lorenzo). Her costume stays in line with the solid color common with the Heathers but Veronica’s style is more unique and less conformed which stays in line with her character as she tries but fails to fully act like and “become” a Heather Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, Lorenzo). At the end of the musical, Veronica is seen wearing the red scrunchie originally worn by Heather Chandler to indicate her rise in power and status after the defeat of the antagonist, J.D. (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, …show more content…
Green is most commonly associated with envy or jealousy so it would make sense for Heather D. to be wearing this color (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, Lorenzo). It is clear, through her actions (and costume) that she is jealous of Heather Chandler throughout the musical so her green represents the envy she has for wanting to be the leading Heather and in charge (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez, Lorenzo). After the first climactic scene in the musical in which Heather Chandler is murdered, Heather is seen at school wearing, not only the red scrunchie that belonged to Heather C., but an entirely red outfit, to show her satisfaction with having been put into power (Fitzgerald, Tom and Marquez,