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Mean Girls: Music From the Motion Picture

Mean Girls

Shows · Mean Girls

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.

Opened
2018
Performances
833
Type
Musical
Era
Contemporary
Music: Jeff RichmondLyrics: Nell BenjaminBook: Tina Fey

Productions4 on Broadway

2018 August Wilson Theatre Original. April 8, 2018 · Casey Nicholaw 833 performances
2021 Transfer Theatre not recorded. September 23, 2021
2024 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
2026 Transfer Theatre not recorded. February 23, 2026

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Recordings 2 albums held

Licensing 1 entry

US Music Theatre International Mean Girls matched on title alone — a lead, not a confirmed licensor

Read from the licensor's own pages and catalogues. Rights move, and an empty row means we have not confirmed a publisher, not that the show cannot be licensed.

In the literature1 passages

Broadway musicals self-referentially reclaimed stereotypes about gay men and musicals in Mean Girls and The Prom (2018). There are more musicals that practice this brand of self-reflexivity than those that grapple with the AIDS crisis, and this speaks to how musicals and US culture more broadly viewed gay men: as camp… book:broadway-bodies-ryan-donovan-2023#p164

Passages naming this show, found by keyword across 178 books. Where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.

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