Shows · Mean Girls · August Wilson Theatre, 2018
The run closed March 11, 2020
- Opened
- April 8, 2018
- Closed
- March 11, 2020
- Performances
- 833
- Previews
- Unknown
- Theatre
- August Wilson Theatre
Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 19th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Mean Girls 3 more that season
| 2021 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2024 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2026 | Transfer Transfer |
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
14 of these 31 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Casey Nicholaw
- Choreographer
- Casey Nicholaw
- Orchestrations
- John Clancy
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Recordings 17 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Mean Girls, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
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.”
Speaker unknown. Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 272- Broadway musicals self-referentially reclaimed stereotypes about gay men and musicals in Mean Girls and The Prom (2018). There are more musicals that practice this brand of self-reflexivity than those that grapple with the AIDS crisis, and this speaks to how musicals and US culture more broadly viewed gay men: as camp… Broadway Bodies Ryan Donovan 2023, p. 164
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 17 recordings of Mean Girls document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.
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