The musical is based on the 2004 movie.
Paramount has released the official trailer for Mean Girls: The Musical, the upcoming theatrical film based on the hit Broadway show...which was, in turn, based on a Paramount movie from 2004. Celebrating the movie's 20th anniversary will be a big deal next year, with frequent rumors about some kind of reunion...and while that is not yet confirmed, what we do know is that the musical, which originally launched in Washington, D.C. in 2017.
In addition to a theatrical release next year -- an upgrade from the movie's original plans to go straight to Paramount+ -- the musical will head to London's West End in 2024. The movie itself, an immediate cult classic, helped make Tina Fey a household name and set the stage for the massive success of 30 Rock.
"What we're trying to do is take the score that sounds like a Broadway score — in a good way — and the movie a fresher palette," the musical's creator Jeff Richmond explained."To make it sound more like stuff you want to listen to on Spotify, as opposed to when you're sitting eighth row center at a Broadway theater or the Pantages. It's kind of making it a fresher, younger take on the whole thing.
Mean Girls: The Musical is directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. from a screenplay by Tina Fey. The movie stars Angourie Rice, Auli'i Cravalho, Reneé Rapp, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Tina Fey, and Tim Meadows.
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