“Beautiful” is the opening number of the musical and provides some foreshadowing for the continuation of the show.

The song sets the stage for what environment these characters have dwelled in for the last… Read More [VERONICA, spoken]

September 1st, 1989

Dear diary

I believe I'm a good person

You know, I think that there's good in everyone, but—

Here we are, first day of senior year

And, uh, I look around at these kids that I've known all my life and I ask myself, what happened?

[STUDENTS]

Freak, slut, burnout, bug-eyes, poser, lard-ass

[VERONICA]

We were so tiny, happy and shiny

Playing tag and getting chased

[STUDENTS]

Freak, slut, loser, shortbus

[VERONICA]

Singing and clapping, laughing and napping

Baking cookies, eating paste

[STUDENTS]

Bull-dyke, stuck-up, hunchback

[VERONICA]

Then we got bigger, that was the trigger

Like the Huns invading Rome

[MALE STUDENT, spoken]

Huh

[VERONICA, spoken]

Ugh, oh, sorry

[VERONICA]

Welcome to my school, this ain't no high school

This is the Thunderdome

Hold your breath and count the days, we're graduating soon

[STUDENTS]

White trash

[VERONICA]

College will be paradise, if I'm not dead by June

But I know, I know life can be beautiful

I pray, I pray for a better way

If we changed back then, we could change again

We can be beautiful

[A PREPPY STUD knocks a HIPSTER DORK to the floor]

[HIPSTER DORK, spoken]

Ow

[VERONICA]

Just not today

[VERONICA, spoken]

Hey, are you okay?

[HIPSTER DORK, spoken]

Get away, nerd

[VERONICA, spoken]

Oh, okay

[STUDENTS]

Freak, slut, cripple, homo, homo, homo

[VERONICA]

Things will get better soon as my letter

Comes from Harvard, Duke, or Brown

Wake from this coma, take my diploma

Then I can blow this town

Dream of ivy-covered walls and smoky French cafés

[VERONICA jostles RAM SWEENEY]

[RAM, spoken]

Watch it

[VERONICA]

Fight the urge to strike a match and set this dump ablaze

[RAM upends VERONICA'S lunch tray]

[RAM, spoken]

Oops

[VERONICA, spoken]

Ram Sweeney

Third year as linebacker and eighth year of smacking lunch trays and being a huge dick

[RAM, spoken]

What did you say to me, skank?

[VERONICA, spoken]

Ah, nothing

[VERONICA, STUDENTS, VERONICA & STUDENTS]

But I know, I know (I know, I know)

Life can be beautiful

I pray, I pray (I pray, I pray)

For a better way

We were kind before (Ooh)

We can be kind once more (Ooh)

We can be beautiful (Ooh, beautiful)

[MARTHA approaches]

[VERONICA, spoken]

Agh, hey, Martha

[MARTHA, spoken]

Hey

[MARTHA helps VERONICA pick up her tray]

[VERONICA, spoken]

Martha Dunnstock, my best friend since diapers

[MARTHA, spoken]

We on for movie night?

[VERONICA, spoken]

Yeah, you're on Jiffy Pop detail

[MARTHA, spoken]

I rented The Princess Bride

[VERONICA, spoken]

Ho-ho-ho, again?

Wait, don't you have it memorized by now?

[MARTHA, spoken]

What can I say? I'm a sucker for a happy ending

[KURT, spoken]

Martha Dumptruck

Wide load, honk

[KURT KELLY knocks the tray from MARTHA'S hands]

[KURT, spoken]

Haha

[VERONICA, spoken]

Kurt Kelly, quarterback

He is the smartest guy on the football team

Which is kind of like being the tallest dwarf

[KURT, spoken]

Haha, alright

[VERONICA, spoken]

Hey, pick that up, right now

[KURT, spoken]

I'm sorry, are you actually talking to me?

[VERONICA, spoken]

Yes, I am

I wanna know what gives you the right to pick on my friend

You're a high school has-been waiting to happen

A future gas station attendant

[KURT, spoken]

You have a zit right there

[KURT and STUDENTS laugh]

[VERONICA, spoken]

Dear diary

[VERONICA]

Why?

[HIPSTER DORK]

Why do they hate me?

[YOUNG REPUBLICANETTE]

Why don't I fight back?

[KURT]

Why do I act like such a creep?

[VERONICA]

Why?

[MARTHA]

Why won't he date me?

[RAM]

Why did I hit him?

[STONER CHICK, MS. FLEMING & PREPPY STUD]

Why do I cry myself to sleep?

[VERONICA]

Why?

[STUDENTS]

Somebody hug me

Somebody fix me

Somebody save me

[STUDENTS & VERONICA]

Send me a sign, God

Give me some hope here

Something to live for

[The three HEATHERS enter]

[STUDENTS]

Ah-ah, Heather, Heather and Heather

[VERONICA, spoken]

And then there's the Heathers, they float above it all

[STUDENTS]

I love Heather, Heather and Heather

I hate Heather, Heather and Heather

[VERONICA, spoken]

Heather McNamara, head cheerleader

Her dad is loaded, he sells engagement rings

[STUDENTS]

I want Heather, Heather and Heather

[VERONICA, spoken]

Heather Duke, runs the yearbook

No discernible personality, but her mom did pay for implants

[STUDENTS]

I need Heather, Heather—

[VERONICA, spoken]

And Heather Chandler, the Almighty

She is a mythic bitch

They're solid Teflon, never bothered, never harassed

I would give anything to be like that

[HIPSTER DORK, spoken]

I'd like to be their boyfriend

[STUDENTS]

That would be beautiful

[STONER CHICK, spoken]

If I sat at their table, guys would notice me

[STUDENTS]

So beautiful

[MARTHA, spoken]

I'd like them to be nicer

[STUDENTS]

That would be beautiful

[BELEAGUERED GEEK, spoken]

I'd like to kidnap a Heather and photograph her naked in an abandoned warehouse and leave her tied up for the rats

[VERONICA enters the girls' bathroom. HEATHER CHANDLER and MCNAMARA are watching HEATHER DUKE vomit into a toilet]

[HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]

Grow up, Heather, bulimia's so '87

[HEATHER MCNAMARA, spoken]

Maybe you should see a doctor, Heather

[HEATHER DUKE, spoken]

Yeah, Heather. Maybe I should

[MS. FLEMING, spoken]

Ah, Heather and Heather

[HEATHER DUKE vomits]

[MS. FLEMING, spoken]

And Heather

Perhaps you didn't hear the bell over all the vomiting

You're late for class

[VERONICA scribbles on a piece of paper]

[HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]

Heather wasn't feeling well, we're helping her

[MS. FLEMING, spoken]

Not without a hall pass, you're not

Week's detention

[VERONICA, spoken]

Um, actually, Ms. Fleming, all four of us are out on a hall pass

Yearbook committee

[MS. FLEMING, spoken]

I see you're all listed

Hurry up and get where you're going

[HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]

This is an excellent forgery. Who are you?

[VERONICA, spoken]

Uh, Veronica Sawyer. I crave a boon

[HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]

What boon?

[VERONICA, spoken]

Um, let me sit at your table, at lunch

Just once, no talking necessary

If people think that you guys tolerate me, then they'll leave me alone

[The HEATHERS laugh]

[VERONICA, spoken]

Before you answer, I also do report cards, permission slips and absence notes

[HEATHER DUKE, spoken]

How about prescriptions?

[HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]

Shut up, Heather

[HEATHER DUKE, spoken]

Sorry, Heather

[HEATHER CHANDLER inspects VERONICA'S face]

[HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]

For a greasy little nobody, you do have good bone structure

[HEATHER MCNAMARA, spoken]

And a symmetrical face

If I took a meat cleaver down the center of your skull, I'd have matching halves

That's very important

[HEATHER DUKE, spoken]

Of course, you could stand to lose a few pounds

[HEATHER CHANDLER]

And you know, you know, you know?

This could be beautiful

Mascara, maybe some lip gloss

And we're on our way

Get this girl some blush

And Heather, I need your brush

Let's make her beautiful

[HEATHER DUKE]

Let's make her beautiful

[HEATHER MCNAMARA]

Let's make her beautiful

[HEATHER CHANDLER]

Make her beautiful

[HEATHER CHANDLER, spoken]

Okay?

[VERONICA, spoken]

Okay

[KURT]

Out of my way, geek

[BELEAGUERED GEEK]

I don't want trouble

[RAM]

You're gonna die at 3 pm

[REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL]

Don't you dare touch me

Get away, pervert

[BELEAGUERED GEEK]

What did I ever do to them?

[STUDENTS]

Who could survive this?

I can't escape this

I think I'm dying

[MS. FLEMING]

Who's that with Heather?

[THE HEATHERS enter again]

[STUDENTS, spoken]

Woah

[STUDENTS]

Heather, Heather, Heather

[REPUBLICANETTE & NEW WAVE GIRL]

And someone

[STUDENTS]

Heather, Heather, Heather

[PRINCIPAL GOWAN & COACH RIPPER]

And a babe

[STUDENTS]

Heather, Heather, Heather

[MARTHA, spoken]

Veronica?

[STUDENTS]

Veronica, Veronica, Veronica

[THE HEATHERS part, revealing a smoking hot VERONICA who has been given a makeover]

[VERONICA, STUDENTS, VERONICA & STUDENTS]

And you know, you know, you know (Ohh-oh)

Life can be beautiful

You hope, you dream, you pray (Ohh-ah)

And you get your way (Beautiful)

Ask me how it feels

Lookin' like hell on wheels (Ooh-ah)

My God, it's beautiful (Beautiful)

I might be beautiful (Beautiful)

And when you're beautiful (Ahh)

It's a beautiful frickin' day

Heather, Heather, Heather, Veronica (Hey-yeah)

Heather, Heather, Heather

Veronica, Veronica, Veronica, Veronica, Veronica