Cady Heron, a homeschooled teenager raised in Africa, enters a suburban Illinois high school and is drawn into the ruthless social hierarchy ruled by the Plastics, a clique of popular girls led by the manipulative Regina George. As Cady infiltrates the Plastics to take Regina down from within, she risks becoming the very monster she set out to destroy.
Opened
2018
Performances
833
Type
Musical
Era
Contemporary
Music: Jeff RichmondLyrics: Nell BenjaminBook: Tina Fey
Music Theatre International
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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…
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