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* RefugeInAudacity: Janis' response to Regina asking her if she was a lesbian. [[note]]Changed from the movie.[[/note]]
-->'''12-Year Old Janis''': [[spoiler: I... am a '''''SPACE ALIEN''''' and I have '''''FOUR BUTTS!''''']]
-->'''Damian''': It was a bad choice.
-->'''12-Year Old Janis''': [[spoiler: I... am a '''''SPACE ALIEN''''' and I have '''''FOUR BUTTS!''''']]
-->'''Damian''': It was a bad choice.
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* SongStyleShift: Four times in Meet The Plastics. Regina’s part is a VillainSong / BadGirlSong about how she's drunk with power, Gretchen's part is a frantic PatterSong ,and Karen’s is reminiscent of a DisneyPrincess song or a [[MusicBoxIntervals music box melody]]. The ending is a CounterpartDuet until the ending when the Plastics and Cady sing in unison.
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* SongStyleShift: Four times in Meet The Plastics. Regina’s part is a VillainSong / BadGirlSong VillainSong/BadGirlSong about how she's drunk with power, Gretchen's part is a frantic PatterSong ,and PatterSong, and Karen’s is reminiscent of a DisneyPrincess song or a [[MusicBoxIntervals music box melody]]. The ending is a CounterpartDuet until the ending when the Plastics and Cady sing in unison.
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-->'''Damian/Janis''': ''[later]'' ItÂ’s a Revenge Party, with your two best friends - itÂ’s like a party with revenge is what itÂ’s like!
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* SongStyleShift: Four times in Meet The Plastics. ReginaÂ’s Regina’s part is a VillainSong / BadGirlSong about how she's drunk with power, Gretchen's part is a frantic PatterSong ,and KarenÂ’s Karen’s is reminiscent of a DisneyPrincess song or a [[MusicBoxIntervals music box melody]]. The ending is a CounterpartDuet until the ending when the Plastics and Cady sing in unison.
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* ActingForTwo: Or rather, three; Ms. Norbury, Mrs. George, and Mrs. Heron are all played by the same actor.
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* CreatorCouple: Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond, who wrote the book and music respectively, are married.
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* CutSong: “Wildlife” (in place of "It Roars"), “Bossed Up” (in place of "Stop") and “Here” (in place of "I See Stars").
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-->'''Damian/Janis''': ''[later]'' It’s ItÂ’s a Revenge Party, with your two best friends - it’s itÂ’s like a party with revenge is what it’s itÂ’s like!
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* SongStyleShift: Four times in Meet The Plastics. Regina’s ReginaÂ’s part is a VillainSong / BadGirlSong about how she's drunk with power, Gretchen's part is a frantic PatterSong ,and Karen’s KarenÂ’s is reminiscent of a DisneyPrincess song or a [[MusicBoxIntervals music box melody]]. The ending is a CounterpartDuet until the ending when the Plastics and Cady sing in unison.
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* SongStyleShift: Four times in Meet The Plastics. Regina’s part is a VillainSong / BadGirlSong about how she's drunk with power, Gretchen's part is a frantic PatterSong ,and Karen’s is reminiscent of a DisneyPrincess song or a [[MusicBoxIntervals music box melody]]. The ending is a [[CounterpartDuet Counterpart Trio]] CounterpartDuet until the ending when the Plastics and Cady sing in unison.
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* CutSong: “Wildlife” (in place of "It Roars"), “Bossed Up” (in place of "Stop") and “Here” (in place of "I See Stars").
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* WhatTheHellHero: Janis' reprise of "Someone Gets Hurt."
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-->'''Janis''': Imagine a party with dresses and cake. And singing and dancing and cake.//
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-->'''Janis''': Imagine a party with dresses and cake. And singing and dancing and cake.//''cake.''
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-->'''Damien/Janis''': ''[later]'' It’s a Revenge Party, with your two best friends - it’s like a party with revenge is what it’s like!
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** Cady is portrayed with red hair in the film, but in the musical original cast member Erika Henningsen wears a straight light brown wig for the first part, and later switches to a curly blonde one as part of Cady's transformation into a plastic.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Twice in "Revenge Party".
-->'''Janis''': Imagine a party with dresses and cake. And singing and dancing and cake.//
-->'''Damien/Janis''': It’s a Revenge Party, with your two best friends - it’s like a party with revenge is what it’s like!
** Cady is portrayed with red hair in the film, but in the musical original cast member Erika Henningsen wears a straight light brown wig for the first part, and later switches to a curly blonde one as part of Cady's transformation into a plastic.
-->'''Janis''': Imagine a party with dresses and cake. And singing and dancing and cake.//
-->'''Damien/Janis''': It’s a Revenge Party, with your two best friends - it’s like a party with revenge is what it’s like!
** Cady is portrayed with red hair in the film, but in the musical original cast member Erika Henningsen wears a straight light brown wig for the first part, and later switches to a curly blonde one as part of Cady's transformation into a plastic.
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* TriumphantReprise: The finale "I See Stars" reprises a part of "More Is Better", the original song is about Cady losing herself while the reprise is about how Cady has learned that people should be themselves.
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* DarkReprise: Actually a few examples:
** The "It Roars" reprise happens directly after the original version but it is set after Cady realizes that High School isn't gonna be as fun as she thought it would be during the first version.
** Though the first version of "Someone Gets Hurt" isn't exactly light and fluffy, it's reprise occurs during the breakdown of Cady's friendship with Damien and Janis, with Janis seeming on the verge of tears.
** "World Burn" has Regina reprising her section of "Meet The Plastics" throughout the song. However, originally Regina was singing about how she ruled the school, now she's singing about her plan to destroy every relationship in the school.
** "Fearless" gets a rather depressing reprise where Cady has lost everything. Before the characters were singing about being fearless, now Cady is singing it about how she isn't fearless.
** The "It Roars" reprise happens directly after the original version but it is set after Cady realizes that High School isn't gonna be as fun as she thought it would be during the first version.
** Though the first version of "Someone Gets Hurt" isn't exactly light and fluffy, it's reprise occurs during the breakdown of Cady's friendship with Damien and Janis, with Janis seeming on the verge of tears.
** "World Burn" has Regina reprising her section of "Meet The Plastics" throughout the song. However, originally Regina was singing about how she ruled the school, now she's singing about her plan to destroy every relationship in the school.
** "Fearless" gets a rather depressing reprise where Cady has lost everything. Before the characters were singing about being fearless, now Cady is singing it about how she isn't fearless.
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* VillainSong: "World Burn" is Regina's most villainous moment in the show.
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* VillainSong: "World Burn" is Regina's most villainous moment in the show. She also has the song "Someone Gets Hurt" where she turns on Cady and takes Aaron back.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "I'd Rather Be Me" is this to Cady.
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* WardrobeMalfunction: Happens to [[spoiler: Regina during that talent show number, due to the fact that (thanks to the Kalteen bars) her skirt no longer fit and the makeshift holders she created for it failed mid performance. This incident goes viral on instagram, and causes Regina to begin falling out of favor with the student body.]]
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* WardrobeMalfunction: Happens to [[spoiler: Regina during that talent show number, due to the fact that (thanks to the Kalteen bars) her skirt no longer fit fits and the makeshift holders she created for it failed mid performance. This incident goes viral on instagram, and causes Regina to begin falling out of favor with the student body.]]
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The moral of the story, stated by Janis and Damian, is all power corrupts and that no matter how mean someone is, they're still human and stooping to their level by bullying them back is never the answer.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The moral of the story, stated by Janis and Damian, is that all power corrupts and that no matter how mean someone is, they're still human and stooping to their level by bullying them back is never the answer.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: The moral of the story, stated by Janis and Damian, is all power corrupts and that no matter how mean someone is, they're still human and stooping to their level by bullying them back is never the answer.
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* NeverMyFault: The musical makes a point of saying that even the least culpable characters are complicit in bullying in some form or another.
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* NeverMyFault: The musical makes a point of saying that even the least culpable characters are complicit in bullying in some form or another. Janis is hesitant to talk to Cady at the end because she knows that, if Cady apologizes, she'll have to own up to manipulating Cady and mistakenly assuming that bullying Regina for revenge was still wrong even if Regina was an awful person.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Unlike the movie, it's left ambiguous whether or not Janis's sexuality is left ambiguous. In this version, when Regina confronted Janis and asked what her sexuality was, Janis refused to say. Whether this was because she was so insulted that Regina maliciously disregarded her privacy, because she was struggling with her sexuality and wasn't sure how to define herself, because she is lesbian or bisexual and was too scared to reveal so, or a combination of any of the above is left up to the viewer to decide.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Unlike the movie, it's left ambiguous whether or not Janis's sexuality is left ambiguous. In this version, when Regina confronted Janis and asked what her sexuality was, Janis refused to say. Whether this was because she was so insulted that Regina maliciously disregarded her privacy, because she was struggling with her sexuality and wasn't sure how to define herself, because she is lesbian or bisexual and was too scared to reveal so, or a combination of any of the above is left up to the viewer to decide.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: Unlike the movie, it's left ambiguous whether or not Janis is truly a lesbian or if it was only a malicious rumor started by Regina.
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* IncestuousCasting: In universe. In "Stop," Damian tells Cady about how he became jealous when a girl played a romantic part opposite of a guy he liked, and that he spent four weeks trolling her online via an array of alternative accounts. He later found of that the girl was the guy's sister.
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* ColorblindCasting: An asian actress portrays Gretchen in the original Broadway cast, but the character is still referred to as Jewish. It's not unlikely for someone to have both asian and Jewish heritage, of course, but in the original film Gretchen was portrayed as a stereotypical white JewishAmericanPrincess.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Don't be fooled by the pink]].]]
''Mean Girls'' is the [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations musical adaptation]] of the [[Film/MeanGirls 2004 film of the same name]]. Creator/TinaFey, writer of the original film's screenplay, also wrote the book of the musical, while the music and lyrics are written by Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin, respectively. After five years of development and a test run in Washington, D.C., ''Mean Girls'' officially opened on Broadway in April 2018.
The musical more or less follows the plot of the film, with certain changes made to the setting and its characters. Most notably, its story is brought into the UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, with social media playing a substantial role that didn't exist in the film (which predates UsefulNotes/{{Twitter}} and the like), and updated cultural references, such as [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump the POTUS in office]] when it debuted.
After its premiere, ''Mean Girls'' was nominated for a total of twelve Tony Award, including Best Musical.
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!! "Stupid With Tropes:"
* ActingForTwo: Or rather, three; Ms. Norbury, Mrs. George, and Mrs. Heron are all played by the same actor.
* AdaptationalDyeJob:
** Cady is portrayed with red hair in the film, but original cast member Erika Henningsen is blonde.
** Janis has (dyed) pitch black hair in the film, but here she has a black-blonde ombre style.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: This version of Aaron Samuels isn't as oblivious as his movie counterpart. He's roughly as smart as Cady, and his intelligence (or lack thereof) isn't remarked on.
* AdaptationalNameChange:
** Janis Ian becomes Janis Sarkisian.
** Damian Lewis becomes Damian Hubbard.
** Subverted with Kevin Gnapoor, who is established as having a different first name here than in the film; he chooses to call himself Kevin, instead of being born with the name.
* BadGirlSong: Pretty much any number performed by Regina.
* CreatorCouple: Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond, who wrote the book and music respectively, are married.
* CompositeCharacter: To some extent, Ms. Norbury, Mrs. George, and Mrs. Heron all represent a singular, older female perspective to the younger women. That they're all played by the same actor makes it a bit more obvious.
* TheElevenOClockNumber: "Do This Thing" is the climax of Cady's character development before the finale.
* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: Janis and Damian are the narrators of the musical, rather than Cady as in the film.
* GreekChorus: Janis and Damian fulfill this role.
* IWantSong: "Stupid With Love" is about Cady's longing for Aaron.
* MrFanservice: Aaron's good looks (and six-pack) are put on display at a few points in the musical.
* MusicalisInterruptus: Kevin G's rap is put to an end before it can start.
* NeverMyFault: The musical makes a point of saying that even the least culpable characters are complicit in bullying in some form or another.
* NonPOVProtagonist: While Cady is also the narrator of her story in the film, the musical isn't told from her perspective.
* RaceLift: At least in the original Broadway cast, Gretchen is played by an Asian actress, rather than the white Lacey Chabert. The character retains her Jewish heritage, though.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "I'd Rather Be Me" is this to Cady.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Much like in the film, Aaron is a more of tertiary character than anything else, but he does get a little more depth than his cinematic counterpart.
* ScreenToStageAdaptation: Based on the film of the same name.
* SettingIntroductionSong / WelcomingSong: "Where Do You Belong?" is Janis and Damian's official introduction to Cady.
* VillainSong: "World Burn" is Regina's most villainous moment in the show.
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Don't be fooled by the pink]].]]
''Mean Girls'' is the [[AllMusicalsAreAdaptations musical adaptation]] of the [[Film/MeanGirls 2004 film of the same name]]. Creator/TinaFey, writer of the original film's screenplay, also wrote the book of the musical, while the music and lyrics are written by Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin, respectively. After five years of development and a test run in Washington, D.C., ''Mean Girls'' officially opened on Broadway in April 2018.
The musical more or less follows the plot of the film, with certain changes made to the setting and its characters. Most notably, its story is brought into the UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, with social media playing a substantial role that didn't exist in the film (which predates UsefulNotes/{{Twitter}} and the like), and updated cultural references, such as [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump the POTUS in office]] when it debuted.
After its premiere, ''Mean Girls'' was nominated for a total of twelve Tony Award, including Best Musical.
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!! "Stupid With Tropes:"
* ActingForTwo: Or rather, three; Ms. Norbury, Mrs. George, and Mrs. Heron are all played by the same actor.
* AdaptationalDyeJob:
** Cady is portrayed with red hair in the film, but original cast member Erika Henningsen is blonde.
** Janis has (dyed) pitch black hair in the film, but here she has a black-blonde ombre style.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: This version of Aaron Samuels isn't as oblivious as his movie counterpart. He's roughly as smart as Cady, and his intelligence (or lack thereof) isn't remarked on.
* AdaptationalNameChange:
** Janis Ian becomes Janis Sarkisian.
** Damian Lewis becomes Damian Hubbard.
** Subverted with Kevin Gnapoor, who is established as having a different first name here than in the film; he chooses to call himself Kevin, instead of being born with the name.
* BadGirlSong: Pretty much any number performed by Regina.
* CreatorCouple: Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond, who wrote the book and music respectively, are married.
* CompositeCharacter: To some extent, Ms. Norbury, Mrs. George, and Mrs. Heron all represent a singular, older female perspective to the younger women. That they're all played by the same actor makes it a bit more obvious.
* TheElevenOClockNumber: "Do This Thing" is the climax of Cady's character development before the finale.
* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: Janis and Damian are the narrators of the musical, rather than Cady as in the film.
* GreekChorus: Janis and Damian fulfill this role.
* IWantSong: "Stupid With Love" is about Cady's longing for Aaron.
* MrFanservice: Aaron's good looks (and six-pack) are put on display at a few points in the musical.
* MusicalisInterruptus: Kevin G's rap is put to an end before it can start.
* NeverMyFault: The musical makes a point of saying that even the least culpable characters are complicit in bullying in some form or another.
* NonPOVProtagonist: While Cady is also the narrator of her story in the film, the musical isn't told from her perspective.
* RaceLift: At least in the original Broadway cast, Gretchen is played by an Asian actress, rather than the white Lacey Chabert. The character retains her Jewish heritage, though.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "I'd Rather Be Me" is this to Cady.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Much like in the film, Aaron is a more of tertiary character than anything else, but he does get a little more depth than his cinematic counterpart.
* ScreenToStageAdaptation: Based on the film of the same name.
* SettingIntroductionSong / WelcomingSong: "Where Do You Belong?" is Janis and Damian's official introduction to Cady.
* VillainSong: "World Burn" is Regina's most villainous moment in the show.
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