New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Calling all plastics, cool moms and wannabes! Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond, creators of Tony nominated Mean Girls The Musical, are taking over Spotify's groolest "Best of Broadway" playlist to share 68 hidden gems about songs from the Broadway show and discuss their favorite show tunes.
Tina divulges one of her favorite songs from Mean Girls The Musical is "What's Wrong With Me?" sung by the character of Gretchen Wieners.The playlist includes fetch classics like Gene Wilder's "Pure Imagination," Dick Van Dyke's "Bye Bye Birdie," West Side Story's "Jet Song," South Pacific's "A Wonderful Guy," The
Music Man's "Ya Got Trouble" and more.
Mean Girls opened on Broadway April 8 at the August WilsonTheatre (245 West 52nd Street). The musical features a book by nine-time Emmy Award winner Tina Fey, based on her screenplay for the film, music by three-time Emmy Award winner Jeff Richmond, and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Nell Benjamin. Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw directs and choreographs.
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless
Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina's reign, she learns the hard way that you can't cross a
Queen Bee without getting stung.
The cast is led by
Erika Henningsen as Cady Heron, Taylor Louderman as
Regina George, Ashley Park as Gretchen Wieners, Kate
Rockwell as
Karen Smith, Barrett Wilbert Weed as Janis Sarkisian, Grey Henson as Damian Hubbard, Kerry Butler as Mrs. Heron / Ms. Norbury / Mrs. George, Kyle Selig as
Aaron Samuels, Cheech Manohar as
Kevin Gnapoor, Rick Younger as Mr. Duvall. The cast also includes
Stephanie Lynn Bissonnette, Tee Boyich, Collins Conley, Ben Cook, DeMarius R. Copes,
Kevin Csolak, Devon Hadsell, Curtis Holland, Myles McHale, Chris Medlin, Brittany Nicholas, Becca Petersen, Nikhil Saboo, Jonalyn Saxer, Brendon Stimson, Riza Takahashi, Kamille Upshaw, Zurin Villanueva, Gianna Yanelli, and Iain Young.
