Mean Girls

The 2004 cult comedy, about a naïve, African-raised teenager who moves to Chicago and clashes with her new school’s reign of “Plastics,” receives its musical-theatre reboot courtesy of Broadway Across America. Eighteen songs transform a 97-minute film into a two-and-a-half-hour stage spectacle, but the film’s story, and its charms, remain intact, with Tina Fey herself penning its punchy and much-praised dialogue.