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Fetch did not quite happen.
Tina Fey’s Mean Girls musical was one of the biggest new West End openings of 2024, and was generally praised for being a very funny adaptation of the beloved millennial high school movie. But word on the actual songs was less strong, and by the time it opened here it had already closed on Broadway. It’s questionable whether the fact a film version of the musical being released earlier last year really helped. And the arrival in town this month of the very similar Clueless can’t have been a huge boost either.
In short, Mean Girls is leaving town this summer after running at the Savoy Theatre for about a year – a perfectly decent stint, but inevitably every musical that comes to town with an open-ended run hopes to stick around for a few years, and Mean Girls definitely isn’t doing that, or even coming close to the two years it managed on Broadway.
Still, there’s good news for non-London-based fans of Cady Heron, the Plastics, and all the other high school eccentrics in Fey’s show will be embarking upon a UK tour next year, with dates to be announced.
Often when a musical’s closure is announced a few months in advance it means the ink has been dried on the deal for the next show to go into the theatre, but decorum dictates the current resident is allowed to announce its departure first. There are various rumours sloshing around regarding what’s next for the Savoy, including a musical adaptation of 2010 Christina Aguilera vehicle Burlesque that’s already had tryouts in Manchester, and potentially the projected Paddington musical after that.
For now, all we officially know is that you’ve got just under three months to catch Mean Girls before they vacate the West End for good.
Mean Girls is at the Savoy Theatre until Jun 8. Buy tickets here.
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