Head Over Heels at Lakewood Playhouse

The LAKEWOOD PLAYHOUSE, re-opened to public performances, continues its 83rd Season main stage with Head Over Heels, a musical featuring the music of the Go-Gos and based on The Arcadia, a 16th-century prose romance.Head Over Heels is a bold new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q and Spring Awakening. This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980s all-female rock band The Go-Gos, including the hit songs, We Got the Beat, Our Lips Are Sealed, Vacation, Belinda Carlisles Heaven is a Place on Earth, and Mad About You.A hilarious and exuberant celebration of love, Head Over Heels follows the escapades of a royal family of Arcadia on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinctiononly to discover the key to their realms survival lies within each of their own hearts.Jeff Whitty conceived the musical and wrote the book, which was further adapted by James Magruder. It was first produced in. The plot of the show is adapted from The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, written by Sir Philip Sidney in the 16th century.Head Over Heels is directed and choreographed by Andrew Coopman and music directed by Christopher Conway.

Authors

• Albert T. Viola
• Ben Hecht
• Edgar Allan Woolf
• James Magruder
• Jeff Whitty
• Jerome Kern
• Kenneth Sawyer Goodman
• William S. Kilborne Jr.
• William S. Kilborne, Jr.