Purists may balk that there’s no strip croquet scene in “Heathers: The Musical,” the tuneful stage adaptation of the 1989 cult movie “Heathers,” but the production’s leading lady promises something even better.
“There’s stuff you don’t see in the movie that you do see on stage,” says , who plays good girl gone sort-of bad , a role originated on screen by .
Perhaps it was inevitable that “Heathers,” about three ultra-popular mean girls named Heather who rule their school until Veronica and her bad-boy (really bad) boyfriend JD start messing with them, would become a musical. The show, with a score by and , first surfaced in 2010. But it wasn’t until last year, when the show had a nearly five-month run off Broadway, that audiences began to take note.
“I definitely didn’t see the musical coming,” says Quarles from her home near San Francisco’s Panhandle. “It’s a teen movie that hits on something deeper and darker. I think of musicals as being happier, but the way they’ve adapted it there’s still darkness but with a lot of humor.”
These days Quarles spends her days as a self-described “playground mom” shuttling her 2½-year-old to art class and gymnastics with her 9-month-old in tow. And by night she’s a 17-year-old sexy high school student.
“No one is happier about me being in this show than my husband,” says Quarles, who recently lopped off more than a foot of her hair to better resemble the shoulder-length late-’80s bob Ryder sports in the movie. “He had a huge crush on Winona Ryder as Veronica when he was a teenager, so no one wished harder for this show to happen than him.”

There’s a song in the show that Veronica sings twice, “Dead Girl Walking.” The first time is when she thinks her chances for having a social life have been ruined, and she’s made mortal enemies of the Heathers. She sings it again toward the end when the fate of the entire student body of Westerberg High is in jeopardy.
“That’s my favorite moment in the show,” Quarles says. “When the song comes back, it’s a whole new Veronica. She’s not thinking about herself but about other people. It’s her superhero moment, and when I sing it, I feel it in my chest. It’s so much bigger than high school.”
On a recent walk down Haight Street, Quarles couldn’t resist buying a VHS copy of “Heathers” for 27 cents. “I have no idea how I’m going to watch it,” she says. “I guess I was feeling sentimental.”
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