Head Over Heels, 2018

The run closed January 6, 2019

Opened

July 26, 2018

Closed

January 6, 2019

Performances

188

Previews

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Theatre

Hudson Theatre

Of the 426 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and record a performance count, this is the 102nd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of Head Over Heels 1 more that season

Who was in it14 named

Amber Ardolino
Yurel Echezarreta
Ari Groover
Justin Prescott
Ricardo A Zayas

9 of these 14 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 5 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Michael Mayer

Choreographer

Spencer Liff

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Around this production

The show made Broadway history by featuring Peppermint, the first openly transgender woman to originate a principal role on Broadway. The story is adapted from Sir Philip Sidney's 16th-century romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.

• 'Let Us Build A Little Nest’ (lyric by Kern and Hobart)—see HEAD OVER HEELS [August 29, 1918] Show Tunes 1905 1985 the Songs Shows and Careers of Steven Suskin 1st Ed New Yor, p. 46
• Her wish came true in Head Over Heels (2018). Even when acknowledging that the Broadway Body could include a diverse array of body types, bodies that do not conform to the ideal are still positioned in opposition to it. Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 30
• Head over Heels (2018), which featured Bonnie Milligan as Princess Pamela in a fairy-​tale-​esque take on the jukebox musical. During the show’s brief run, Milligan tweeted, “We are serving amazing body positivity at @HOHmusical, where I get to play the most beau­tifull girl in the land, who has a love story, and nothi… Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 126
• These musicals stand out because they challenge Broadway’s bias toward normativity even as they reinforce it. Casting is Broadway’s process that enforces de jure size discrimination. Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 127
• Head Over Heels (2018) included the non-​binary character of the oracle, Pythio. Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 166

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for Head Over Heels at all.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.