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Title: Mean Girls Musical
Genre: Musical Comedy
Director: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.
Cast: Angourie Rice, Reneé Rapp, Auli'i Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika Vandanapu, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Jenna Fischer, Busy Philipps, Ashley Park, Jon Hamm, Mahi Alam, Connor Ratliff
Release: 2024-01-12
Plot: An adaptation of Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond, and Nell Benjamin's Broadway musical based on the popular 2004 film comedy. Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.It was announced last week that Paramount will be remaking Mean Girls as a film adaptation of the Broadway musical which was adapted from the original film. It is following the trajectory of 8 1/2 (Nine), The Producers and Hairspray in returning to the screen after receiving a stage adaptation.
Tina Fey will write the script again, as she did for both the original film and the book for the musical. The score is by Fey's husband Jeff Richmond with lyrics by Nell Benjamin.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/...n-of-broadways-mean-girls-musical-1203477247/
It does not surprise me at all that Paramount wants to do this, because the musical is a big success (they also announced the Broadway production's recoupment at the same time) and because the original is a popular piece of IP for the studio with built-in brand recognition. But it does surprise me that this news is coming so soon because the show just opened on Broadway about two years ago. I figured they would wait a little while longer and let the show continue to play exclusively on stage before doing this again.
But now that development has been announced, I doubt it will take too long to come together. Paramount will benefit greatly from this because they are lacking in big franchise IP. I'm not exactly sure if I would call Mean Girls a franchise because they can only do the musical remake once and there's no sequel in it, but it is a big iconic title in their library that is guaranteed to get a lot of attention.
I will be seeing the stage production in April. Based on the cast album, it hews pretty closely to the original material and just puts songs into the characters' mouths. It is probably not the most distinguished show in the canon, but the score is really fun and I am looking forward to seeing it.
No casting has been announced yet, but I was watching the original last night and I thought it would be cool if they got Amanda Seyfried to come back for it. She is too old to play Karen again, but she's probably old enough to play any of the adult women (Cady's mom, Regina's mom or Miss Norberry.) I don't think they should try to put everyone from the original into the remake because that would just seem like a stunt, but having one or two show back up in new roles would be a cool way to tip the hat to the original. Seyfried makes sense because we know she can sing and she has successfully starred in three other screen musicals, so bringing her back is a natural fit.
Tina Fey will write the script again, as she did for both the original film and the book for the musical. The score is by Fey's husband Jeff Richmond with lyrics by Nell Benjamin.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/...n-of-broadways-mean-girls-musical-1203477247/
It does not surprise me at all that Paramount wants to do this, because the musical is a big success (they also announced the Broadway production's recoupment at the same time) and because the original is a popular piece of IP for the studio with built-in brand recognition. But it does surprise me that this news is coming so soon because the show just opened on Broadway about two years ago. I figured they would wait a little while longer and let the show continue to play exclusively on stage before doing this again.
But now that development has been announced, I doubt it will take too long to come together. Paramount will benefit greatly from this because they are lacking in big franchise IP. I'm not exactly sure if I would call Mean Girls a franchise because they can only do the musical remake once and there's no sequel in it, but it is a big iconic title in their library that is guaranteed to get a lot of attention.
I will be seeing the stage production in April. Based on the cast album, it hews pretty closely to the original material and just puts songs into the characters' mouths. It is probably not the most distinguished show in the canon, but the score is really fun and I am looking forward to seeing it.
No casting has been announced yet, but I was watching the original last night and I thought it would be cool if they got Amanda Seyfried to come back for it. She is too old to play Karen again, but she's probably old enough to play any of the adult women (Cady's mom, Regina's mom or Miss Norberry.) I don't think they should try to put everyone from the original into the remake because that would just seem like a stunt, but having one or two show back up in new roles would be a cool way to tip the hat to the original. Seyfried makes sense because we know she can sing and she has successfully starred in three other screen musicals, so bringing her back is a natural fit.
