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Mean Girls, 2018

Opened April 8, 2018

Closed March 11, 2020

833 performances

August Wilson Theatre

Original

Broadway

Of the productions that opened in the 2010s, this had the 19th longest run.

Other stagings of Mean Girls 3 more

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2026
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Who was in it31 named

Curtis Holland
Sasha Hollinger
Jonalyn Saxer
Kamille Upshaw
Krystina Alabado
Catherine Brunell
Chad Burris
Olivia Kaufmann
Darius Barnes
Kevin Cosculluela
Ixchel Cuellar
Morgan Harrison
Christine Shepard
Jake Swain
Daryl Tofa
Teddy Toye
Tovi Wayne

Creative team

Director
Casey Nicholaw
Choreographer
Casey Nicholaw
Orchestrations
John Clancy

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical
Nominated

Recordings

17 recordings of Mean Girls exist, but none were released while this run was on. See Mean Girls for all of them.

Around this production

Mean Girls is a rock musical with a book by Tina Fey, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, and music by Jeff Richmond. It is based on the 2004 film by Mark Waters, which was also written by Fey and was in turn inspired by Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 book Queen Bees and Wannabes. The musical focuses on Cady Heron, a teenage girl who transfers to a public high school after being homeschooled her whole life in Africa. At school, she befriends outsiders Janis Sarkisian and Damian Hubbard who persuade her to infiltrate the "Plastics", a clique consisting of wealthy but insecure Gretchen Wieners, sweet but dimwitted Karen Smith, and "queen bee" Regina George. Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, and prod…

Quoted in Brantley, review of It Shoulda Been You, April 14, 2015. See also Dinero, “Big Black Lady.”

Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 272

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