Head Over Heels
Arcadia reimagined through 1980s club culture, using a modular, high-saturation world that moves with the pulse of the Go-Go’s.
- Year
- 2023
- Company
- Theatre SilCo
- Project
- Musical Theatre
- Location
- Silverthorne, CO
The bold, unapologetic energy of the Go-Go's shaped Head Over Heels from the beginning. Working with director Josh Walden at Theatre SilCo, I reimagined Arcadia through 1980s club culture and the visual intensity of New York's Palladium.
Instead of medieval architecture, the set became an immersive party: Pop Art shapes, electric color, modular platforms, and stylized columns glowing in saturated pinks. The world transformed fluidly between scenes while keeping the visual energy high.
The goal was to give the production a scenic language that felt joyful, queer, and in motion. Projection, color, and flexible architecture let each location shift with the characters while keeping the stage alive with pulse and play.
Creative team
- Book By
- Jeff Whitty
- Adapted By
- James Magruder
- Directed & Choreographed By
- Josh Walden
- Music Direction
- Timothy Fletcher
- Scenic Designer
- Brandon PT Davis
- Costume Designer
- Melissa Livingston
- Lighting Designer
- Merle DeWitt III
- Sound Designer
- Hudson Waldrop
- Music & Lyrics By
- The Go-Go’s
Links
Million Dollar Quartet
The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove
The Glass Menagerie
Bell, Book, and Candle
Head Over Heels
Romeo & Juliet
Much Ado About Nothing
¡LOTERIA: GAME ON!
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Romero
Urinetown
An Inspector Calls
All's Well That Ends Well
Little Shop of Horrors
Tomás and the Library Lady
The Penelopiad
Company
American Idiot
Parliament Square
An Enemy of the People
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Boeing, Boeing
The Bald Soprano
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
The Man of La Mancha
Dial “M” for Murder
All My Sons
Last Train to Nibroc
Rich Girl