Tina Fey & Tim Meadows reprising their 'Mean Girls' roles for film musical adaptation

[masterofmystery]

Tina Fey isn’t finished with #MeanGirls or Ms. Norbury just yet: She’ll reprise her role of math teacher in the upcoming musical movie version of the 2004 film, and Tim Meadows is coming along for the ride too! https://t.co/gaTz8tDeCy pic.twitter.com/hQdFSc5r5x
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) February 17, 2023
Tina Fey announced that she will

Comments

[2_on]

it's been almost 20 years since the movie came out... i'm old

[rubie_dubidoux]

when I went to see the play there were a LOT of teen girls in the audience clearly born after the movie came out, and they weren't just there being dragged along by an older family member. I had no idea it was THAT enduring

[progression]

A big group of us went to see it in theaters after the afterprom party and the place was full of kids dressed from various schools in prom clothes. That’s all I think about when Mean Girls is mentioned. I am super old.

[sherrilina]

I do not understand who is checking for this movie. Literally the only great parts of the musical were the dialogue lifted from the original movie...which is already a movie. Tbe musical part was shit.

[copulates]

I thought so too, and I was disappointed that some of the funniest lines in the movie were slightly changed or completely removed in the musical

[rubie_dubidoux]

now that I've seen the musical I'm curious to see how this is going to go. I think the updates they've made to the actual speaking lines of the play compared to the movie are mostly an improvement - although it is kind of weird hearing the same lines that have become embedded in pop culture alongside completely new ones, like it's very "we gotta play the hits!" and they got big laughs from the audience but not from me since like, I've heard it before! the music itself is.... meh. tbh I mostly couldn't really understand what half the songs were about since I couldn't understand the lyrics and a lot of them seemed just kinda shoehorned in and tonally discordant from the rest of the plot? but the good ones were really good and worked perfectly - like Damian describing all the cafeteria tables.

I think making some of the numbers a little less Broadway-y is a good move. I was half-hoping they'd do a number revolving around that recurring Samantha Ronson song from the movie lol

[healthypanda]

I had no idea that was a Samantha Ronson song even though I've seen that movie 50 times. TIL

[penelopetaynt]

I demand cameos from all the original cast members

[tipping4_2]

the lyrics in the musical are bad lol and the badness will be amplified in a movie

that said reneé rapp is super talented and her regina is great. lucille-good-for-her.gif