Mean Girls: The Musical?
Mean Girls: The Musical?
midnightshow
Swing Joined: 5/24/07
#1Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 9:10pm
okay so I don't know if this is just a rumor or a true project in the works. some of my good friends within the industry were saying that mean girls is highly being considered for a Broadway musical adaptation?
I can see happiness and grief with this. yes, movies into musicals are getting a bit excessive, but I personally love this movie and am intrigued to see what would happen.
also, they briefly mentioned the devil wears prada as another movie. true or false?
FutureAladdinOnB'Way
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/07
#2re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 9:13pmI was hoping for a musical of Clueless before a musical of Mean Girls...
#2re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 9:15pmThat would be quite interesting and amusing.
MarkRascati
Broadway Star Joined: 5/24/06
#3re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 9:18pmThey really need to make a musical out of "Bedazzled"
#4re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 9:40pm
MEAN GIRLS:THE MUSICAL = FLOP!
Apparantley, The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical is in the works, but you didn't hear it from me...
#5re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 9:43pm
Could we update "Mean Girls" and make them all in their 50s?
Imagine it:
Regina George: Patti LuPone
Gretchen: Donna Murphy
Karen: Christine Ebersole
And, then have some young new person play Cady (ie Leslie Kritzer)
#6re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 9:47pm
Oh my God I would love this to be true.
Stop trying to make fetch happen, Gretchen! LOL
And Saved is being done, too right?
#7re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 10:15pm
My friend said this after seeing my picture infront of LEGALLY BLONDE:
"Is every movie turning into a musical.
What's next: Mean Girls?"
#8re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 10:23pm
Yes, Saved is being done off-broadway.
I can't really see this being done, but who knows? It could be great in the right hands.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#9re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 10:29pmCheno could play Regina' mom! Perfect.
#10re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 10:52pm
Wow, that does sound perfect.
Ana Gasteyer could play the role of Cady's mom again...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#11re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 10:57pmThere are definitely worse movies to adapt.
#12re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:12pm
Like Shrek. *Shudder*
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#13re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:22pmHow about some musicals that would be better than the original movie?
joey
ElFantasma14
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/06
#14re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:24pmI personally love Mean Girls, and I think in the right hands it could be great a la Legally Blonde, only a little bit dirtier if you please. I think Clueless would be great too, or Heathers.
MerMaggieGalinda
Broadway Star Joined: 11/29/06
#15re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:38pmI love Mean Girls and I agree, in the right hands it could be great. I could see Cady as a sweet, innocent soprano(in the beginning anyway) and Regina as a loud, brassy belter.
#16re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:46pmWhat about Kerry Butler as Regina?
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
#17re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:48pm
Imagine it:
Regina George: Patti LuPone
Gretchen: Donna Murphy
Karen: Christine Ebersole
I'd see it!
MerMaggieGalinda
Broadway Star Joined: 11/29/06
#18re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:50pmKerry would be good, but I'd rather have more age-appropriate actors.
#19re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/6/07 at 11:53pmYeah, it's hard to pre-cast already-known actors since they have to look like/be in high school. But still, I think she looks pretty young.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
bwayboi0101
Understudy Joined: 11/25/04
#20re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 12:17am
I made this awhile ago as a joke between friends, I would love to see it. As stated in the right hands it would work!
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#21re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 1:31amI have a secret wish that there will someday be a musical adaption of Heathers. I don't know why, but I think that movie has a lot more potential then Mean Girls.
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
#22re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 2:14amI love this movie and would love to see it musicalized. The only Lindsay Lohan movie worth seeing in my opinion. And by "Lindsay Lohan Movie" I mean a movie where she is the main character.
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#23re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 4:42amThe only problem with a lot of movie musicals is that there is really no reason to sing sometimes. In musicals people sing because they need to express a larger emotion that way, it's another way of speaking. I see moe moments to sing about in Saved! and in Bedazzled, just because in Saved! there are people who feel REALLY strongly about certain things, and in Bedazzled you've got fantasy and lots of stuff that just really pops up as musical moments.
#24re: Mean Girls: The Musical?
Posted: 8/7/07 at 7:32amYou could have Anneliese van der Pol as Cady. She could act like innocent, naive Chelsea (her character on That's So Raven) at the beginning, and then when she turns into a plastic she could be a Bratz doll. And I agree that Ana could still play Cady's mom, but they'd have to give her more stage time. I love the idea for Cheno as Regina's mom!
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