Head Over Heels is a jukebox musical comedy with music and lyrics from the catalog of The Go-Go's. Jeff Whitty conceived the show and wrote the original book, which was then adapted by James Magruder after Whitty left the show due to conflict with incoming director Michael Mayer, who fired Whitty's entire original creative team. The plot of the Broadway version of the show is somewhat based on The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia written by Sir Philip Sidney in the 16th century. Head Over Heels opened at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in June 2015 and enjoyed a sold-out five-month run in the 1100-seat outdoor theater. After Whitty's departure, three years later Head Over Heels opened on Broadway on July 26, 2018, at the Hudson Theatre in a drastically different version; its final Broadway p