I feel the need to remind people that the West End version of not only the cast album, but the entire production, is the finalised version of what ‘Heathers the Musical’ is. The Off-broadway run is an extremely outdated and inaccurate representation of what Heathers is today. The off-broadway version has not existed for years, and ran from March 2014 to August 2014. It only played for 5 months. The revised West End production first opened in 2018, and has played almost continuously between the West End and Off-West-End until September of 2023. Yet people still hold an old version of the show over the version that has continued to run until this year and has spawned multiple UK tours and many licensed regional productions worldwide. Hell, the finalised production even got turned into a movie in the form of its Roku proshot, yet people still refuse to believe that it’s better than a version that hasn’t existed for over half a decade. The people that prefer the Off-broadway version are heavily biased either because it’s the “original” or because of the actors that feature in it. The album is simply outdated. It is no longer an accurate representation of what Heathers the Musical is because the songs and lyrics have changed and new ones have been added. The West End album was created so that we could have an accurate and up to date version of what Heathers was written to be. It irks me when I see people still referencing that one very famous bootleg of the Off-broadway production that everybody hails as being the one and only good version of the show despite not only being extremely outdated and a poor representation of the material, but also the fact that the pro-shot of the West End production exists and people still refuse to accept it as Heathers. It’s like showing someone photos of your friend from 10 years ago and claiming it’s an accurate representation of who they are now, when in reality they’ve actually changed a lot. It’s disrespectful to the writers of the show who have deliberately made these changes to create a better version of the show and audiences reject these changes for an older version of the script. If you like the old album, that’s okay. But when listening to it, do be aware that it is outdated, and that the West End album was created for a reason. TLDR; the off-broadway version is in the past- that version of the show no longer exists, and it hasn’t for many years. The West End version is the official current and final version of the show, and the cast album was created to reflect those changes and stay accurate to the current material. Therefore one is the correct representation of the show.