MEAN GIRLS Cast Recording to Be Released May 18th

Atlantic Records has announced the release of Mean Girls (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING), the official companion to the new musical based on the iconic film. The album will be available for digital pre-orders and pre-saves beginning Friday, April 6th at digital retailers nationwide; Mean Girls (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING) will be available for digital download Friday, May 18th. Physical CD editions arrive in stores nationwide on Friday, June 15th.

Now in performances and set to open Sunday, April 8th at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street), Mean Girls is the new musical featuring a book by nine-time Emmy Award winner Tiny Fey ("30 Rock," Bossypants), based on her screenplay for the film, music by three-time Emmy Award winner Jeff Richmond ("30 Rock," "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt") and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde). Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw (Aladdin, The Book of Mormon) directs and choreographs. Mean Girls is produced by Lorne Michaels, Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman, and Paramount Pictures.

"MEAN GIRLS (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING)" continues Atlantic Records' recent string of landmark Original Broadway Cast Recordings, including 2015's GRAMMY® Award-winning, chart-topping milestone, "HAMILTON (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING)" and this year's GRAMMY® Award-winning, "DEAR EVAN HANSEN (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING)."

"All of us at Atlantic are thrilled to be working together with Jeff, Nell, Tina, music director Mary-Mitchell Campbell and the amazing cast and team of "Mean Girls," said GRAMMY® Award winning Atlantic Records President, A&R Pete Ganbarg. "It's such an iconic property and to see these characters come alive on stage with such vibrancy and such incredible music, there was no doubt in our mind, following "Hamilton" and "Dear Evan Hansen," that we wanted "Mean Girls" to be Atlantic's next Broadway release."

Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the wild and vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. How will this naïve newbie rise to the top of the popularity pecking order? By taking on The Plastics, a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina's reign, she learns the hard way that you can't cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.

MEAN GIRLS gets to the hilarious heart of what it means to be a true friend, a worthy nemesis, and above all, a human being.

The Broadway cast is led by Erika Henningsen as Cady Heron, Taylor Louderman as Regina George, Ashley Park as Gretchen Wieners, Kate Rockwell as Karen Smith, Barrett Wilbert Weed as Janis Sarkisian, Grey Henson as Damian Hubbard, Kerry Butler as Mrs. Heron / Ms. Norbury / Mrs. George, Kyle Selig as Aaron Samuels, Cheech Manohar as Kevin Gnapoor, Rick Younger as Mr. Duvall. The cast also includes Stephanie Lynn Bissonnette, Tee Boyich, Collins Conley, Ben Cook, DeMarius R. Copes, Kevin Csolak, Devon Hadsell, Curtis Holland, Myles McHale, Chris Medlin, Brittany Nicholas, Becca Petersen, Nikhil Saboo, Jonalyn Saxer, Brendon Stimson, Riza Takahashi, Kamille Upshaw, Zurin Villanueva, Gianna Yanelli, and Iain Young.

MEAN GIRLS' creative team includes Scott Pask (Set Design), Gregg Barnes (Costume Design), Kenneth Posner (Lighting Design), Brian Ronan (Sound Design), Finn Ross & Adam Young (Video Design), Josh Marquette (Hair Design), Milagros Medina-Cerdeira (Make-Up Design), Mary-Mitchell Campbell (Music Director), John Clancy (Orchestrations), Glen Kelly (Dance and Incidental Music Arrangements), Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Jeff Richmond, and Natalie Tenenbaum (Vocal Arrangements), Howard Joines (Music Coordinator), and Telsey + Co / Bethany Knox, CSA (Casting).

MEAN GIRLS is produced by Lorne Michaels, Stuart Thompson, Sonia Friedman, Paramount Pictures, Marisa Sechrest, Ars Nova Entertainment, Berlind Productions, Steve Burke, Scott M. Delman, Roy Furman, Robert Greenblatt, Ruth Hendel, JAM Theatricals, The John Gore Organization, The Lowy Salpeter Company, James L. Nederlander, Christine Schwarzman, and Universal Theatrical Group.