{"id":52286,"date":"2023-11-08T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/mean-girls-musical-trailer-has-no-music-but-lots-of-nostalgia\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T16:09:00","slug":"mean-girls-musical-trailer-has-no-music-but-lots-of-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/mean-girls-musical-trailer-has-no-music-but-lots-of-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mean Girls&#8217; Musical Trailer Has No Music, But Lots of Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Fetch, or something like it, is officially happening. The first trailer for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/photos\/2023\/03\/mean-girls-how-the-musical-cast-compares-to-original-movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mean Girls<\/em> movie musical<\/a> has premiered, taking viewers on a ride down memory lane with a relatively new cast of characters.<\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-dRedg hZcniq iframe-embed\">\n<div data-testid=\"IframeEmbedContainer\" class=\"IframeEmbedContainer-hptgUZ hSLYci\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"IframeEmbedContent-cMdiev csnuAY IframeEmbedContent\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" title=\"Embedded Frame\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/fFtdbEgnUOk\" allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; clipboard-write; autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The trailer is chock full of familiar faces, locales, and even <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kateyrich\/status\/1722257804785017322\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/kateyrich\/status\/1722257804785017322&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kateyrich\/status\/1722257804785017322\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outfits<\/a> that come directly from <strong>Tina Fey<\/strong>&#8216;s classic 2004 comedy <em>Mean Girls.<\/em> We open with <strong>Tim Meadows<\/strong>&#8216; Principal Duvall screaming \u201cHell no\u201d as chaos ensues at North Shore High School; soon after, we see Fey&#8217;s math teacher, Ms. Norbury, wearing a blouse that\u2019s almost identical to the one she wore almost 20 years ago as she chastises a student, telling them to \u201ckeep it PG-13.\u201d The trailer is chock full of thinly veiled allusions and not so subtle references to the original film, including Cady (<strong>Angourie\u00a0Rice<\/strong>) wearing the same blue plaid shirt her foremother <strong>Lindsay Lohan<\/strong> wore while traversing the halls of high school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Despite all the similarities, the trailer warns that this is not your mother&#8217;s <em>Mean Girls<\/em>. Paramount\u2019s remake is adapted not directly from the film but from the Tony-nominated <em>Mean Girls<\/em> Broadway musical, with a book by Fey, lyrics by <strong>Nell Benjamin,<\/strong> and music by Fey&#8217;s husband, <strong>Jonathan Richmond<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Yet besides a single eighth note placed in the middle of the \u201cA\u201d in the film\u2019s title, there&#8217;s no indication that this <em>Mean Girls<\/em> movie is, in fact, a musical. Instead of including any original music from the film, the trailer is set to <strong>Olivia Rodrigo<\/strong>&#8216;s pop-punk anthem \u201cGet Him Back.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Still, there&#8217;s plenty in the trailer to indicate that we&#8217;ve got a modernized <em>Mean Girls<\/em> on our hands. Along with iPhones and TikToks, we see Damian (<strong>Jaquel<\/strong> <strong>Spivey<\/strong>) and Janis (<strong>Auli&#8217;i Cravalho<\/strong>) find Cady eating lunch in the bathroom stall alone. \u201cWe&#8217;re concerned you&#8217;re either doing drugs or having a toilet baby,\u201d quips Damian. During health and human sexuality class, <strong>Jon Hamm<\/strong>&#8216;s creepy gym teacher Coach Carr tells his students, \u201cWe&#8217;ll be getting into abstinence, of course, then followed by in the spring condoms and choking;\u201d behind him, we see \u201cvazectomy\u201d and \u201cIUD\u201d written on the white board. And <strong>Busy Phillips<\/strong> is also here, putting her own spin on cool mom Mrs. George, originally played by <strong>Amy Poehler<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><em>Mean Girls<\/em> purists will also notice plenty of moments that seem to be recreated whole cloth from the original film, which just burst back into culture thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/tv\/news\/mean-girls-reunion-lindsay-lohan-cast-walmart-black-friday-ads-1235774827\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Walmart commercial<\/a> starring Lohan, <strong>Lacey Chabert<\/strong>, and <strong>Amanda Seyfried<\/strong>. (<strong>Rachel McAdams<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/mean-girls-reunion-walmart-ad-rachel-mcadams-missing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned down the gig<\/a>.) In the trailer, we see shots from the Plastics\u2019 iconic Christmas talent show, prom, and the Halloween party where Cady, once again, has the wrong costume. \u201cCady, if you don&#8217;t dress slutty, that is slut shaming <em>us<\/em>,\u201d says <strong>Bebe Wood&#8217;s<\/strong> Gretchen Weiners.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Fey wrote the screenplay, while <strong>Samantha Jayne<\/strong> and <strong>Arturo Perez Jr.<\/strong> direct this iteration of <em>Mean Girls,<\/em> which also features mononymous actor <strong>Avantika<\/strong> as Karen and singer and <em>Sex Lives of College Girls<\/em> star <strong>Rene\u00e9<\/strong> <strong>Rapp,<\/strong> who steps back into the role of Regina George\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2023\/08\/renee-rapp-says-starring-in-mean-girls-musical-was-harmful-to-her-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which she originally played on Broadway<\/a>. So, get in loser: we&#8217;re watching <em>Mean Girls<\/em> in theaters on January 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2023\/11\/mean-girls-musical-trailer-has-no-music-but-lots-of-nostalgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fetch, or something like it, is officially happening. The first trailer for the Mean Girls movie musical has premiered, taking viewers on a ride down memory lane with a relatively new cast of characters. 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