“Mean Girls" at the Adler Theatre -- March 13.
Thursday, March 13, 7:30 p.m.
Adler Theatre, 136 East Third Street, Davenport IA
Lauded by New York magazine as a show that "delivers with immense energy, a wicked sense of humor, and joyful inside-jokery," the Tony-nominated Broadway musical Mean Girls brings its national tour to Davenport's Adler Theatre on March 13, New York adding that this critically lauded smash based on the 2004 hit comedy is "hilarious, splashy, and unmistakably by Tina Fey."
After years in the making, the Mean Girls musical hits the stage with the favorite characters from the movie, powerful music, and timely pop culture and news references. At the show's start, Janis Sarkisian and Damian Hubbard welcome the audience to their “Cautionary Tale”: Cady Heron is the new girl at North Shore High School in Chicago, desperate to fit in and find friends. Janis and Damian befriend the new girl, and when the popular-girl brigade The Plastics set their sights on Cady, Janis convinces naive Cady to be their “friend” in order to bring down Queen Bee Regina George’s reign. Along the way, Cady loses herself, her friends, and her crush, all for the chance to be popular and loved. Yes when dethroned Regina gets revenge by releasing the Burn Book, Cady is brought down and must mend her broken relationships with Janis, Aaron, and even Regina. With dynamic songs for young performers, Mean Girls is an anthem to friendship, loyalty, girl power, and being true to yourself. How fetch!
Boasting a book by eight-time Emmy Award winner Tina Fey, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, and music by Fey's husband Jeff Richmond, Mean Girls is based on the 2004 film by Mark Waters, which was also written by Fey, and was in turn inspired by Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 book Queen Bees & Wannabes. Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, and produced by Saturday Night Live visionary Lorne Michaels, the original production of Mean Girls premiered on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre in 2018, after completing pre-Broadway tryouts in Washington, D.C. at the National Theatre in 2017. The show went on to be nominated for 12 trophies at the 72nd Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and a recording featuring the original Broadway cast was released in 2018 by Atlantic Records. The show eventually closed, after 833 performances on Broadway, on March 11, 2020, an end to the run only caused by the closing of theatres due to COVID-19.
The national tour of Mean Girls lands in Davenport on March 13, admission to the 7:30 p.m. Broadway at the Adler presentation is $48-88, and tickets are available by calling (800)745-3000 and visiting DavenportLive.com/the-adler-theatre.
