‘Mean Girls’ the musical, now playing in S.F., is way more than recycled jokes from the movie and paint-by-numbers tunes — it stands on its own.
High school can be hell, and right now BroadwaySF has two touring musicals in San Francisco about the difficulty and the ethics of trying to fit in.
Fey also wrote the book for the 2017 stage musical that’s now come to town after its hit Broadway run, and it too is tremendously witty, with some great new gags along with some favorites from the film. English Bernhardt makes an upbeat, plucky heroine as Cady, a new arrival who’s been home-schooled in Kenya and takes on making sense of high school social politics as a fascinating challenge — and of course inevitably goes too far.Nadina Hassan emanates cool command as queen bee Regina George, strutting and preening with a blasé air of calculated indifference. The fact that her sultry songs are reminiscent of classic James Bond themes amusingly adds to her mystique.
Eric Huffman exudes irrepressible exuberance as Damian, Janis’ best friend, a musical theater geek that she describes as “almost too gay to function.” Damian’s priceless old-school Broadway song-and-dance numbers are some of the highlights of the show.
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