Shows · Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Opened 2018
833 performances
Musical, Contemporary
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.
- Music
- Jeff Richmond
- Lyrics
- Nell Benjamin
- Book
- Tina Fey
Productions4 productions: 1 on Broadway, 3 in the West End
Recordings 17 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Mean Girls matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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.”
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