MK Theatre: Mean Girls The Musical
Summary
Rating: ★★★★
Running Dates: Tuesday 14th April - Saturday 18th April
Where to see it: Milton Keynes Theatre
Duration: 2 hours 20 minutes (incl. interval)
Photography by Paul Cotlas
Do you remember the first chick flick you watched when you were younger and it made you feel like life is about to get a whole lot better? That smile on your face when the film finishes and the motivation rushes through your veins? That was Mean Girls for me.
If you don’t know the storyline, Mean Girls is an iconic movie from the 2000s that showed every school drama, the aspect of wanting to please people, female competition, boy drama and don’t even get me started on the fashion inspiration. It’s based around this new girl Cady Heron, her first time in school and the pressure of fitting in and the dangers of negative emotions and mean behaviour. Her journey starts with meeting her what she didn’t realise, besties, Janis and Damien. Two people who understand who they are, have been through what she’s about to go through and aren’t afraid to stick up for themselves.
Then came the plastics, the popular girls, the ‘pretty ones’, the ones where other students dared to walk amongst the same corridors, the girls who looked down on others to help with their own insecurities. Cady, the new girl finding her way through high school, ended up falling into their friendship group and so became the journey of teenagehood in school, at first it was a way to get intel for Janies and Damien who saw them as the bad friends, but then came the love to have a group that felt like a loyal friendship but instead striped her of her individual identity.
Photography by Paul Coltas
Mean Girls The Musical, although at first I was sceptical because iconic films like this one are hard to adapt into, was even better than I expected. The show was led by Janis(Georgie Buckland) and Damien(Max Gill), the hilarious duo who ran this modernised version, who took us through Cady’s(Emily Lane) journey and the pressure of high school, and who couldn’t be a more of a perfect cast.
Photography by Paul Coltas
The cast really does make this show, the fierce and incredible vocalist/leader of the pack, Regina George played by Vivien Panka blew us away, matched with her besties, Karen(Sophie Pourett) and Gretchen(Kiara Dario)… Oh so fetch. Their latest recruit, Cady (Emily Lane), had such a soft, kind, and beautiful tone that played perfectly in this musical. The set and the ensemble blew us away with how effortlessly each epic scene was changed.
A hilariously cheesy “so fetch” infectiously joyful performance, and this one is a perfect addition to girls’ night.
Watch if: You love chick flicks, musicals and cheesy witty humour
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Written by Charlotte Moyle
