Tina Fey’s ‘Mean Girls’ coming to S.F. in 2020
The Plastics will bring snide put-downs, a rigidly stratified high school hierarchy and the eternally struggling slang term “fetch” to San Francisco in the summer of 2020, when the musical version of “Mean Girls” stops here as part of a national tour, courtesy of SHN.
The company announced the addition to its 2019-20 season on Thursday, Aug. 23. “Mean Girls” joins the previously announced Tony Awardwinning musical “The Band’s Visit.”
Based on the 2004 Lindsay Lohan film of the same name, the musical version of “Mean Girls” is the coming-of-age story of Cady Heron, a suburban high school’s awkward new girl trying to make friends after a decade of homeschooling during a peripatetic childhood in Africa.
She infiltrates top clique the Plastics, becoming privy to their secret “Burn Book” full of nasty rumors, eventually seizing the throne of its Queen Bee, the venomous Regina George. But then Cady, high on power, has to decide whether to be another Regina or to find a way to be herself.
Tina Fey wrote the screenplay for the film and the book for the musical, which has music by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin and direction by Tony winner Casey Nicholaw (“The Book of Mormon”).
Casting, performance dates and ticket prices will be announced at a later date.
Tina Fey wrote the book for the musical, which has music by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin and direction by Tony winner Casey Nicholaw.