Mean Girls
The upcomingMean Girlsmovie melodic will feature two cast members from the original celluloid reprise their function . The iconic 2004 teen comedy , which was spell by Tina Fey , was in the beginning adapted to Broadway by Fey , Jeff Richmond , and Nell Benjamin . Now it ’s being adapt into a feature starring Angourie Rice as transfer student Cady Heron , Reneé Rapp as queen bee Regina George , Auli’i Cravalho and Jaquel Spivey as Cady ’s acquaintance Janis and Damian , and Bebe Wood and Avantika Vandanapu as Regina ’s cronies Gretchen and Karen .
Tina Fey was a guest on last night ’s instalment ofLate Nox with Seth Meyersto talk about her upcoming tour with Amy Poehler , where the subject naturally turned totheMean Girlsmusical .
Fey revealed that the film , which she also wrote , will start shoot on March 6 . She also let it slip that she and Tim Meadows will be reprising their original roles as math instructor Ms. Sharon Norbury and school principal Ron Duvall , saying that it make sense because " teachers make incessantly . " take her full quote below :
And also … Me and Tim Meadows are gon na be back .
teacher bring everlastingly . I want it to be like when Gilligan from Gilligan ’s Island would be at a trade show and you ’d be like , “ Oh , he look so old in his little hat . ” That ’s my goal .
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Will Tina Fey Sing In The Mean Girls Musical?
Considering how involved she has been in the creation of every version ofMean Girls , it makes sense that Fey will appear in the melodic . However , she is a writer and performing artist primarily screw for drollery , so the musical format is one that audiences have n’t typically seen her in . Although Ms. Norbury is n’t a huge role in the melodic , she does perform in the birdcall " Do This Thing , " which also include the charactersKevin G. and Cadyand take topographic point at the Mathletes backing .
Assuming the song does n’t get edit out when the microscope stage show is adapted to the screen , Fey may indeed be call upon to sing briefly . While it ’s not exactly in her wheelhouse , she at least has some familiarity with perform in a yield number . During her performance in 2014’sMuppets Most Wanted , she work a wicked warden who sings the satirical song " The Big House " to Kermit the Frog when he is imprisoned in her gulag .
Luckily , the character of Ms. Norbury does n’t want a Brobdingnagian amount of musical prowess disregarding . Side characters like her allow grain to musicals and do n’t drive the sound as much as the leads , which in this guinea pig admit Rapp , who arise therole of Regina Georgeon Broadway - so less refined character voices are quite common . Whether she sings or not , Mean Girlsfans can look forwards to having at least a couple of placeable face in the newest version of the iconic story .
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