Sometimes an artist can execute his labors too well. For a limited time, please enjoy my extensive revision of the musical I opened to the most passionate audience response of my career in 2015. Alas, my success did not go unnoticed by another group of artists: the white-collar confidence artists of the Great White Way.

If you were in the audience for the baffling “adapted” version of Head Over Heels that was mounted on Broadway in 2018, I am sincerely sorry. I had nothing to do with that production. I left it two years prior, heartbroken and battered from the egregious abuses of my now-former representation.

The original artist’s vision only comes to life in these pages. I set every syllable in meticulous iambic pentameter. Over the thousands of hours I spent constructing the language, I learned priceless lessons about Shakespeare’s favored poetic form: how the hypnotically flowing language crackles from the mouths of actors into the delighted ears of the Audience.

(For a glimpse at what passes for iambic pentameter on Broadway nowadays, please be sure to read to the end.)

I consider Head Over Heels: The Creator’s Cut the masterpiece of my career and I hope that you enjoy reading it.

❤ Jeffrey