Rialto Chatter: Will MEAN GIRLS Bow On the West End in 2020?

Get in loser, we're (considering) going to London. According to Baz Bamigboye of The Daily Mail. the West End could be getting a whole lot more fetch in autumn of 2020.

Baz reports that Mean Girls producers. Lorne Michaels and Sonia Friedman are exploring options for a West End run of the Tony-nominated musical.

The transfer is currently hinging on the schedules of the show's creative team as well as theatre availability.

There is no word on any casting at this time.

Mean Girls has played to sold-out houses at the August Wilson Theatre since beginning previews in March. The show had its world premiere at the National Theatre in Washington D.C., playing a sold-out run October 31 to December 3, 2017. Mean Girls will launch a National Tour in the fall of 2019.

Mean Girls features a book by nine-time Emmy Award winner Tina Fey, based on her screenplay for the film, music by three-time Emmy Award winner Jeff Richmond, and lyrics by two-time Tony Award nominee Nell Benjamin. Tony Award winner Casey Nicholaw directs and choreographs.

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