On October 3rd, also known as Mean Girls Day, it was announced that a musical based on the 2004 teen comedy will finally makes its premiere in Washington D.C. in the fall of 2017.
The news was revealed on a new verified Twitter account for the film that was penned by Tina Fey:
BREAKING OCT 3rd NEWS! The “Mean Girls” musical is coming to Washington, D.C. Fall of 2017! #MeanGirls #OctoberThird #ThatsSoFetch #grool pic.twitter.com/oFfLmTFrAt
— Mean Girls (@MeanGirlsDC) October 3, 2016
Fey has been working on the musical with Legally Blonde: The Musical lyricist Nell Benjamin and Fey’s husband, composer Jeff Richmond. Due to the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s hiatus, Fey remarked she had time to work on the project.
“We’re working on the musical adaptation, and thanks to Ellie Kemper’s pregnancy, we have this whole summer to work on it,” Fey said earlier this year, according to Deadline.
It is currently unknown what venue the musical adaptation will premiere at and whether it will eventually head to Broadway. More details, including the date of its debut and the cast, will be revealed at a later date.
Mean Girls starred Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Fey, Lacey Chabert, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese, Jonathan Bennett and Amanda Seyfried and has become a cult favorite. October 3rd marks Mean Girls Day because Lohan’s character Cady is asked by her crush Aaron Samuels, played by Bennett, what day it is. “It’s October 3,” she responds in the film.
Lohan and Bennett both celebrated the day and posted about it on social media:
