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Three divas belting out a single number in an audition for a high school musical?

No, it’s not Glee; it’s Paramount Network’s controversial adaptation of Heathers.

In an exclusive EW clip, Heather Duke (Brendan Scannell) begins the audition for Westerburg’s musical “Teenage Suicide (Don’t Do It)” by singing “Heaven is a Place on Earth” before quickly getting upstaged by Heather Chandler (Melanie Field). (In the 1988 movie, “Teenage Suicide (Don’t Do It)” is a hit song from the fictional band Big Fun.) Unfortunately for both of the Heathers, it sounds like the musical’s lead is going to be a little unexpected…

In the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, original Heathers star Shannen Doherty opened up about her initial hesitation about the reboot — and why she ultimately chose to get involved in the production.

“My [team] told me, ‘They’re remaking Heathers and they wanna know if you’d be interested,’” she recalls in the magazine. “I said, ‘No. I don’t know how you could ever, ever remake it.’” But then she read the script. “I was blown away by how good it was, and how [new Heathers creator Jason A. Micallef] managed to be respectful to the original but also bring his own spin to it,” says Doherty. “I had to do it.

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