Applause -- Mean Girls, December 20, 2022-January 1, 2023

APPLAUSE

BY JANICE SINDEN

HHello and welcome to the Denver Center! Thank you for joining us this holiday season. We’re glad you’re here.

As we look forward to 2023 and beyond, we have recommitted to developing a five-year Strategic Plan. Prior to the pandemic, we listened to our Trustees, team members and community about the DCPA’s strengths and opportunities. Now, we are diving back into that work to set a path toward our 50th anniversary season in 2028/29. We look forward to sharing this important work with you and our broader community so that we can deepen our connections, enrich our neighborhoods, and continue to share stories that reflect humanity.

The backbone of this work is our Board of Trustees and I’m happy to share with you some recent leadership changes. Hassan Salem, Head of Commercial Banking at U.S. Bank, has succeeded Martin Semple as Chair of the Board of Trustees. Additionally, Ruth Krebs has succeeded Robert Slosky as the DCPA’s first female Vice Chair and Robert Newman has succeeded Dean Singleton as Secretary/ Treasurer. A tremendous word of appreciation for Martin Semple, Bob Slosky and Bob Newman for their years of leadership and service to the DCPA.

Our Board will implement a Strategic Plan that is based on a very firm foundation. Given the turmoil of the past several years, I am pleased to share with you a summary of our 2021/22 season. Despite a delayed start to our typical concurrent programming, we ultimately presented 30 ticketed events; offered nearly 2,300 classes and in-school programs, and shared 703,000 guest experiences with our community.

Your overwhelming support has bolstered us through the past 2 ½ years and will help us achieve our goals in upcoming seasons. As you make your end-of year gifts, please consider the value you place on the joy of live theatre. Together we will engage new audiences, inspire budding actors, and transform our community through the power of live theatre.

From our family to yours, happy holidays. May they be merry and bright!

Warm regards,

Janice Sinden, President & CEO

P.S. To make a year-end gift, please visit denvercenter.org/support-us. Thank you.

APPLAUSE MAGAZINE

VOLUME XXXIII • NUMBER 3 • NOV 2022 - JAN 2023

EDITOR: Suzanne Yoe

DESIGN DIRECTOR: Kyle Malone

DESIGNER THIS ISSUE: Brenda Elliott

CONTRIBUTING DESIGNERS: Paul Koob, Lucas Kreitler

CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Heidi Bosk, Emma Hunt, John Moore, Joanne Ostrow

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Hassan Salem, Chair

Martin Semple, Immediate Past Chair Ruth Krebs, Vice Chair Robert C. Newman, Secretary/Treasurer

Dr. Patricia Baca

Brisa Carleton

Fred Churbuck Navin Dimond David Farahi Kevin Kilstrom

Susan Fox Pinkowitz Manny Rodriguez Alan Salazar

Richard M. Sapkin William Dean Singleton Robert Slosky June Travis Ken Tuchman Tina Walls

Dr. Reginald L. Washington Judi Wolf Sylvia Young

HONORARY TRUSTEES

Margot Gilbert Frank Jeannie Fuller Daniel L. Ritchie Cleo Parker Robinson

HELEN G. BONFILS FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

William Dean Singleton, President

Martin Semple Vice President

Dr. Reginald Washington, Secretar y/Treasurer

Ruth Krebs

David Miller

Robert C. Newman Hassan Salem Robert Slosky June Travis Judi Wolf

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

Janice Sinden, President & CEO Jamie Clements, Vice President, Development Chris Coleman, Artistic Director, Theatre Company

John Ekeberg, Executive Director, Broadway & Cabaret Lydia Garcia, Executive Director, Equity & Organization Culture

Gretchen Hollrah, Chief Operating Officer

Laura Maresca, Vice President, Human Resources

Charlie Miller, Executive Director & Curator, Off-Center

Lisa Roebuck, Vice President, Information Technology

Charles Varin, Managing Director, Theatre Company

Allison Watrous, Executive Director, Education & Community Engagement

Jane Williams, Chief Financial Officer

Through January 22, 2023

Saints, Sinners, Lovers, and Fools: 300 Years of Flemish Masterworks is co-organized by the Denver Art Museum and The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp (Belgium). It is presented by the Birnbaum Social Discourse Project. Support is provided by the Tom Taplin Jr. and Ted Taplin Endowment, Keith and Kathie Finger, the Kristin and Charles Lohmiller Exhibitions Fund, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Christie’s, the donors to the Annual Fund Leadership Campaign, and the residents who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Promotional support is provided by 5280 Magazine and CBS4.

IMAGE: Catarina Ykens II, Vanitas Bust of a Lady (detail), 1688. Oil paint on panel; 12 1⁄2 × 12 3⁄8 in. © The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp

Katy Tang. Photo by Adams VisCom

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FINDING THE “SUNSHINE OF THE SPIRIT” IN

BY JOHN MOORE

AAnthony Powell is the ghost of A Christmas Carol past, present and future.

Powell, the new director of the DCPA Theatre Company’s seasonal favorite, has himself performed as an actor in five Denver Center holiday stagings going all the way back to 1992. He played Bob Cratchit three times, Old Joe once and finally, in 2001, the jovial Mr. Fezziwig. Powell believes all those iconic Dickens characters live inside him still –  and more.

Friends can easily see Fezziwig’s festiveness and Cratchit’s earnestness in Powell’s daily demeanor. Powell leans more toward Marley, the ghost determined to save Scrooge’s soul, as well as the cheerful nephew Fred, who steadfastly invites his miserly uncle to Christmas dinner each year despite the near certainty that he will be rebuffed.

“On a bad day, I relate to Jacob Marley the most, and on a good day…Fred,” said Powell. “Of course, we all have our Scroogey days, and we have to fight against that. But to me, Marley is just the most heartbreaking of them all. I mean, this is more than a last-ditch effort to save his best friend’s soul – his own redemption is at stake, too.”

It can’t be overstated how much Dickens’ classic holiday story means to Powell. “To me, A Christmas Carol is Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanza and December 25 all rolled into one,” he said. “It covers all the bases.”

Powell holds dear to childhood memories of hunkering down on the couch with his mom to watch the 1951 British film version of A Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim. “We didn’t do The Nutcracker at Christmas,” he said. “We would gather together and watch A Christmas Carol on TV every year, and that really was our family holiday celebration.”

Powell has directed 36 mainstage productions for the DCPA Theatre Company, most under the venerable Artistic Director Donovan Marley from 1990-2005 – and acted in 18 more. But even since becoming Artistic Director of the popular Stories on Stage live storytelling series, Powell has remained active in the Denver Center community, directing acclaimed productions including Lord of the Flies and All the Way while also teaching for DCPA Education.

When Artistic Director Chris Coleman recently asked Powell to direct A Christmas Carol for the first time, Powell said, “It was like the cartoon where the jaw drops and hits the table. I was shocked but thrilled because I love this story and this company so much.”

This year will mark the Denver Center’s 27th not-quite annual staging of A Christmas Carol, which Powell is dedicating to the legendary Laird Williamson, who died in 2020. The tradition began in 1990 with an adaptation written by Williamson and Dennis Powers. In 2005, the company switched to the current version written by Richard Hellesen and David de Berry.

Williamson was a seminal figure in Denver Center history, directing more than 40 plays from 1981-2005, including 14 stagings of A Christmas Carol. Powell had never seen A Christmas Carol as a live play until he came to work here in 1990.

“It really blew my mind what a live audience experiencing that story together in community means, and how different that is from watching a film,” he said.

What has stayed with him more than anything else, he added, was Williamson’s opening-night address reminding the cast and crew that Scrooge’s redemption is indelibly tied to the winter solstice and its promise of new beginnings, longer days and more sunlight.

“That speech stayed the same every year, and it would choke me up every time,” Powell said. “He would talk about how Scrooge’s heart had become frozen and that he had locked himself away from what he called ‘the sunshine of the spirit,’ which is an expression I dearly love. Laird would talk about how our tradition of putting up holiday lights and lighting fires is all about bringing the light back in the darkest days of winter – and that is literally what happens to Scrooge.”

Powell is humbled, resolute and a little bit daunted about not only returning to the Denver Center’s seasonal tradition, but assuming the overall direction of it. He knows what this production has meant to the company and to the community over the years. At its current pace, A Christmas Carol is about two years from crossing the 1 million attendance threshold.

— ANTHONY POWELL, DIRECTOR

Powell likens his new role to that of a train conductor keeping a locomotive on the track it has been riding strong for decades.

“A big part of my job is to really be a good steward, because not only have we inherited a wonderful production and a great adaptation of the play, but also that incredible set designed by Vicki Smith and Kevin Copenhaver’s marvelous costumes,” he said. So Powell did not plan big changes.

“I don’t think audiences will be shocked,” he said. But regular visitors will be somewhat surprised, he admitted, to see only a handful of familiar faces in recurring roles. “The good news is that almost everybody is going to be new to this production,” Powell said. “And the not-as-good news is that almost everybody is going to be new to this production.”

The new Scrooge is none other than Michael Santo, who will be making his 14th appearance in a mainstage DCPA Theatre Company production dating back to 1992.

“For Scrooge, you need to find an actor who can play both the beginning of the show, which is Scrooge as a frozen-hearted miser, as well as the redemption and being reborn at the end,” Powell said. “Michael also has a lovely sense of humor, and that is so important because Scrooge may be an old meanie, but I think he enjoys psyching people out.”

Powell knows how the story ends, of course – and chances are you do, too. But he’s approached things as if he doesn’t. He wants to maintain an innocence to the storytelling, knowing well that people need the replenishment this fable offers coming out of the pandemic.

“The last few years, every single person on planet Earth has been through a lot, and one senses that the world is getting meaner by the second,” Powell said. “At the risk of sounding incredibly corny, I think we need this story now more than ever because kindness is a muscle you have to exercise. This story illustrates in a beautiful way what it means to be a human being.

“We are not alone. We have got to do this thing called life together.”

I think we need this story now more than ever because kindness is a muscle you have to exercise. This story illustrates in a beautiful way what it means to be a human being.

IIn 1939, retailer Montgomery Ward asked Robert L. May to develop a Christmas story for publication. Titled “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” the story was adapted into a song by May’s brother-inlaw and radio producer, Johnny Marks. Ten years later, the song was first sung commercially by Harry Brannon a month before Gene Autry’s No. 1 recording was released. Then, in 1964, Burl Ives re-recorded the song as the soundtrack to accompany the television episode that has become the longest-running Christmas TV special in history.

Now, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical is delighting audiences across the nation. Test your memory by answering “Who Said It?” in this musical-inspired crossword puzzle.

ACROSS

2. Never knew a Bumble yet who’d turn down a pork dinner for deer meat…do your stuff.

3. I’m the official Sentry of the Island of the Misfit Toys!

4. What? You don’t like to make toys?

6. I just don’t like to make toys.

7. I think it’s a handsome nose. Much better than that silly false one you were wearing.

8. Well, this is it. The storm won’t subside by tonight. We’ll have to cancel Christmas.

9. Come here…open your mouth – oh dear. I’d better set up an appointment, week from Tuesday. Four-thirty – sharp.

11. How can you overlook that? His beak blinks like a blinkin’ beacon!

13. A toy is never truly happy until it is loved by a child

15. It sure is! It’s SANTA!! And look, Rudolph is leading the way!

DOWN

1. Who ever heard of a skinny Santa? Eat!

5. Well, they are all very sad at the loss of their friend — but they realize that the best thing to do is to get back to Christmastown.

10. Gadzooks! The Bumble strikes again! Whoopeeee!

12. Looks like we’re forgotten again.

14. I’m cude. I’m cude!

WHO SAID IT? IN RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL

DEC 16 – 18 • BUELL THEATRE

ASL Interpreted, Audio Described and Open Captioned performance: Dec 17 at 3pm

Rudolph Family and Santa

BARTLETT SHER REINVENTS A CLASSIC IN MY FAIR LADY

BY JOANNE OSTROW

MMy Fair Lady, a famously sumptuous spectacle overflowing with a long list of favorite songs, has been called the perfect musical. The Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe original ran on Broadway starting in 1956, setting records for the longest Broadway run at the time.

The 1964 movie adaptation likewise became a classic, with Rex Harrison putting a defining stamp on the role of Henry Higgins, the stodgy professor who remakes a poor flower seller into a lady, on a dare, by cleaning her up and teaching her proper elocution.

He then more or less falls for her — or at least grows accustomed to her face. A slew of romantic comedies from Pretty Woman to Miss Congeniality have cashed in on this magic makeover formula ever since.

But this revival isn’t a nostalgic replay of a frothy film or theater piece. It represents an effort to make this lovely fantasy more relevant to modern sensibilities. The revival by director Bartlett Sher aims to fashion My Fair Lady as less rom-com, more social critique.

“It is helpful to look at the original source material,” Sher said in a telephone interview ahead of the Lincoln Center Theater production’s national tour arrival in Denver.

After all, he said, “Shaw was a radical socialist writer, very interested in the suffragette movement, hanging out with Sylvia Pankhurst and a part of a lot of new thinking about women in society.” The themes of the piece are class divisions and the constraints put on women.

With an outlook that can be considered quite progressive for his time, Shaw devised the plot of Pygmalion to test the idea of upward mobility in a culture defined by strict social class distinctions and misogyny.

Spoiler alert: The ending has been altered to evoke Shaw’s clearly feminist, not so romantic intention.

To understand how he arrived at this new take, Sher said, you have to know the history. Of course My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, written in 1911 with the suffragettes in mind.

“Shaw was quite the radical thinker, heavily influenced by Ibsen and A Doll’s House. He was dead set against the idea of romantic comedy,” Sher said.

In 1938, a movie starring Leslie Howard was produced, written by Shaw from his Pygmalion. “But the studio was unhappy with the ending. They took the screenplay away from him and demanded a reshoot.” Cue the first steps toward a rom-com crowd pleaser.

Some 20 years later, the musical theater got the rights to the early movie and “kept the happy ending,” suggesting the pair get together in the end.

“By the time I got to it,” Sher said, “I reinstated a sense of the original ending.”

In this production, Henry Higgins does not sculpt Eliza Dolittle into his idea of a proper lady; rather, Eliza uses her bravery and pluck to imagine a better life for herself. At the close, this Eliza does not run to Higgins in a suggestion of happy-ever-after coupledom, but instead finds the strength to turn away and face her future, solo.

Sher sees the relationship between Eliza and Higgins as “profound and close but not romantic.” Shaw’s intention, Sher said, was to write the opposite of a romantic comedy.

Younger, more openminded theatergoers may cheer when Eliza stands up to the arrogant, narcissistic Prof. Higgins. Older, perhaps more nostalgic fans of the Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn versions may be stunned.

But Sher is resolute. “The purpose of a revival is not to make people happy, but to provoke discussion.”

His work has been hailed a success to the tune of 10 Tony nominations.

The show’s musical numbers are here in all their glory — from “I Could Have Danced All Night” to “On the Street Where You Live” to “The Rain in Spain.” The glamour is intact. But the tale exits on a note that pays allegiance more to Shaw than to Lerner.

Classic works like My Fair Lady are “very much of their time and require investigation and rethinking,” Sher said, noting that Shaw also struggled with the ending in his day.

The idea, according to the director, is that “these are living texts.” Sher is known for successfully reinterpreting and reworking such classics as South Pacific and The King and I, both of which contain troubling and outdated racial elements. With My Fair Lady, he’s made a classic from a classic for our more egalitarian era but, he asks, “Who knows, 20 years from now…?”

Lerner picks up from Shaw, Sher picks up from Lerner, but who picks up from Sher?

(“Atticus Finch”) and Yaegel T. Welch (“Tom

ALL RISE FOR TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork, To Kill a Mockingbird, is much beloved...a story of race, prejudice, and courage well-known throughout the United States. Academy and Emmy Award-winning writer and director Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, “The West Wing”) has adapted this bestseller and given us a new play for our times. The verdict? A smash success on Broadway now coming to Denver.

Adapting a classic is no easy feat, but the stage version of To Kill a Mockingbird achieves the unimaginable. Two exceptional storytellers, Harper Lee and Aaron Sorkin, have come together with magical results. New York Magazine calls it “a real phenomenon. Majestic and incandescent, it’s filled with breath and nuance and soul.”

The star-studded production, directed by Tony Award-winning Bartlett Sher (South Pacific), features Emmy Award-winning Richard Thomas (“The Waltons”) as Atticus Finch. Audiences will also see Mary Badham, who played Scout Finch in the 1962 feature film, in the role of Mrs. Henry Dubose.

Witness this courtroom drama at The Buell Theatre from January 24 through February 5. You won’t want to miss “one of the greatest plays in history” (NPR).

MY FAIR LADY

NOV 15 – 27 • BUELL

THEATRE

ASL interpreted, audio-described and open captioned performance: Nov 27 at 2pm

The purpose of a revival is not to make people happy, but to provoke discussion.

— BARTLETT SHER, DIRECTOR

Richard Thomas

Robinson”).

Photo by Julieta Cervantes My Fair Lady . Photos by Joan Marcus.

BROADWAY SHOWS TO BRIGHTEN

SEASON

Finish your 2022 with flair and treat your loved ones to an unforgettable experience in the new year! Make a return trip to the theatre and catch your favorite shows, live and up close. Whether you’re searching for the perfect gift for the person who has everything, or you’re inclined to treat yourself, we’ve got options for everyone!

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Lorne Michaels Stuart Thompson Sonia Friedman Paramount Pictures Marisa Sechrest Berlind Productions Steve Burke Scott M. Delman Roy Furman Robert Greenblatt Jam Theatricals The John Gore Organization Benjamin Lowy James L. Nederlander Christine Schwarzman Universal Theatrical Group Ruth Hendel Ars Nova Entertainment Executive Producer David Turner present

Book by Music by Lyrics by Tina Fey Jeff Richmond Nell Benjamin

Based on the Paramount Pictures film Mean Girls with English Bernhardt Nadina Hassan Jasmine Rogers Morgan Ashley Bryant Lindsay Heather Pearce Eric Huffman Heather Ayers Adante Carter Caleb Mathura Lawrence E. Street

Wesley J. Barnes Erica Simone Barnett Noah Blessing Mary Beth Donahoe Niani Feelings Sky Flaherty Samuel Gerber Jamary Gil Megan Grosso Dan Horn Maya Imani Lily Kaufmann Milan Magaña Grace Romanello Sydney Mei Ruf-Wong Adriana Scalice Kyra Smith Avilon Trust Tate Kevin Wang Iain Young

CAST

(in order of appearance)

MEAN

Damian Hubbard

ERIC HUFFMAN

Janis Sarkisian LINDSAY HEATHER PEARCE Cady Heron ENGLISH BERNHARDT Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George HEATHER AYERS Mr. Heron/Coach Carr/Mathletes Moderator IAIN YOUNG Kevin G CALEB MATHURA

Aaron Samuels........................................................................................................................................ADANTE CARTER

Martin J WESLEY J. BARNES Tyler K SKY FLAHERTY Mr. Duvall LAWRENCE E. STREET Regina George NADINA HASSAN Gretchen Wieners ................................................................................................................................JASMINE ROGERS Karen Smith MORGAN ASHLEY BRYANT Art Students WESLEY J. BARNES, DAN HORN, AVILON TRUST TATE

ENSEMBLE

WESLEY J. BARNES, ERICA SIMONE BARNETT, NOAH BLESSING, MARY BETH DONAHOE, SKY FLAHERTY, MEGAN GROSSO, DAN HORN, MAYA IMANI, LILY KAUFMANN, MILAN MAGAÑA, SYDNEY MEI RUF-WONG, KYRA SMITH, AVILON TRUST TATE, IAIN YOUNG

SWINGS

NIANI FEELINGS, SAMUEL GERBER, JAMARY GIL, GRACE ROMANELLO, KEVIN WANG

UNDERSTUDIES

Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

for Damian Hubbard—SAMUEL GERBER, IAIN YOUNG; for Janis Sarkisian—MAYA IMANI; for Cady Heron—MARY BETH DONAHOE; for Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George—MARY BETH DONAHOE, SYDNEY MEI RUF-WONG; for Kevin G—NOAH BLESSING, KEVIN WANG; for Aaron Samuels—DAN HORN, IAIN YOUNG; for Mr. Duvall—NIANI FEELINGS, AVILON TRUST TATE; for Regina George—LILY KAUFMANN; for Gretchen Wieners—MARY BETH DONAHOE, GRACE ROMANELLO; for Karen Smith—MEGAN GROSSO, GRACE ROMANELLO.

Standby for Cady Heron, Regina George, Janis Sarkisian ADRIANA SCALICE

DANCE CAPTAIN: NIANI FEELINGS

ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN: GRACE ROMANELLO

FIGHT CAPTAIN: GRACE ROMANELLO

ADRIANA SCALICE KYRA SMITH TRUST TATE

KEVIN WANG IAIN YOUNG

ENGLISH BERNHARDT

NADINA HASSAN

JASMINE ROGERS

MORGAN ASHLEY BRYANT LINDSAY HEATHER PEARCE

ERIC HUFFMAN

HEATHER AYERS ADANTE CARTER

CALEB MATHURA

LAWRENCE E. STREET

SKY

MAYA

WESLEY J. BARNES ERICA SIMONE BARNETT NOAH BLESSING

NIANI FEELINGS

MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT 1

“A Cautionary Tale” Janis, Damian “It Roars” Cady, Ensemble “Where Do You Belong?” ......................................................................... Damian, Janis, Cady, Ensemble “Meet the Plastics” Damian, Janis, Regina, Gretchen, Karen, Cady “Stupid with Love” Cady, Ensemble “Apex Predator” Janis, Cady “What’s Wrong with Me?” Gretchen “Sexy”............................................................................................................................................... Karen, Ensemble

“Someone Gets Hurt” Regina, Aaron, Ensemble “Revenge Party” Janis, Damian, Cady, Ensemble “Fearless” Gretchen, Karen, Cady, Ensemble

ACT II

“Stop” Damian, Karen, Ensemble “What’s Wrong with Me?” (Reprise) Gretchen, Mrs. George “Whose House Is This?” Kevin G, Cady, Gretchen, Karen, Ensemble “More Is Better” .................................................................................................................................... Cady, Aaron “World Burn” Regina, Ensemble “I’d Rather Be Me” Janis, Ensemble “Fearless” (Reprise) Cady “Do This Thing” Cady, Ms. Norbury, Kevin G, Mathletes, Ensemble “I See Stars” .............................................................................................................. Cady, Janis, Full Company

THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.

PLACE: Kenya/Illinois

TIME: The Present

ORCHESTRA

Conductor/Keyboard 3—CHRIS KONG Assistant Conductor/Keyboard 2 BENEDICT BRAXTON-SMITH Keyboard 1—MICHAEL A. FERRARA Guitar 1—NICK BRENOCK Drums—DAVE LeBLANC Music Coordinator: Howard Joines

Electronic music design by Billy Jay Stein, Hiro Iida and Fuso Murase for Strange Cranium Productions, Inc.

Music Copying: Emily Grishman Music Preparation/Emily Grishman & Alden Terry

DENVER MUSICIANS

Reed 1—ART BOUTON; Reed 2—ERIC ERHARDT; Trumpets—JAKE BOLDMAN; Trombones—ROB OLDS; Guitar 2—DAVE DEVINE; Bass—BRIAN KNOTT; Percussion—SEAN CASE; Keyboard Sub—BOKO SUZUKI;   Local Music Coordinator—JIM HARVEY

In memory of Stuart Thompson

@changeisfetch is an initiative, led by members of the Mean Girls National Tour company, that is dedicated to inspiring change and providing positive ways to take action. To learn more, visit our Instagram @changeisfetch.

ENGLISH BERNHARDT (Cady Heron) is thrilled to be the new kid at North Shore! First national tour: If/Then . Favorite regional credits include Next to Normal (Natalie), Les Misérables (Eponine) and Evita (Mistress). Love and special thanks to the MG team, The Telsey Office, Nicolosi, Mom, Dad and Chase. Let’s do this thing! @ebernhardt. @changeisfetch.

NADINA HASSAN ( Regina George ) is ecstatic about making her national tour debut as Regina George! Nadina graduated from Baldwin Wallace’s MT program in 2020. Regional: Tick, Tick… BOOM! (Susan), West Side Story (Maria) and Be More Chill (Brooke). Love to the Mean Girls team, her Buchwald team and her incredible family. nadinahassan.com. @nadinahassan. @changeisfetch.

JASMINE ROGERS (Gretchen Wieners) is making her national tour debut as Gretchen Wieners. SO FETCH!! Previous theater credits: The Wanderer (Melody Green) Paper Mill Playhouse, Becoming Nancy (Frances Bassey) Alliance Theatre. Huge thanks to Telsey Casting, her agents at Paradigm, and her amazing family! @Jasmine_amy_r. @changeisfetch.

MORGAN ASHLEY BRYANT (Karen Smith ) is honored to be able to share this show with the world and to be a part of such an amazing cast. “Thank you to all of the family, teachers and friends who told me ‘you can.’ I love you.” @mo_dances. @changeisfetch.

LINDSAY HEATHER PEARCE ( Janis Sarkisian) is unbelievably stoked to be making her national tour debut with this incredible company. Broadway: Wicked. Favorite regional: American Idiot , Spring Awakening , Bare , For The Record: BAZ. TV/film: “The Glee Project,” “Glee,” “Recovery Road,” “Grey’s Anatomy.” Many thanks to Telsey, LA Talent, my family and cherished friends. @lindsayheatherpearce. @changeisfetch.

ERIC HUFFMAN (Damian Hubbard). Welcome to High School! National tour: The Book of Mormon (original Jumamosi company, understudy Elder McKinley). CCM graduate. Huge thank you to the entire Mean Girls team and my incredible par -

ents. For Shirley Marley and my Grandma Maxie, the women who inspired me to tap. @e.j.huffman. @changeisfetch.

HEATHER AYERS ( Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George) is thrilled to be joining this amazing cast! Broadway: Groundhog Day, Young Frankenstein, On a Clear Day…, A Little Night Music. Off-Broadway: Roundabout, Second Stage, Lucille Lortel, Minetta Lane. Regional: Goodspeed, Old Globe, Yale Rep, LaMirada…. TV: “American Vandal,” “The Affair,” “Brockmire,” “Scandal.” Big thanks to Telsey, Casey & Casey! @changeisfetch.

ADANTE CARTER (Aaron Samuels ) is GRATEFUL to be back in school! Some skits: Xanadu (Hangar), Carrie (La Mirada), Hair (Serenbe), Forum (Gulfshore), Newsies (Maltz). B.F.A. music theater, AMDA LA. Much love and gratitude to my family and anyone who has helped and believed in my journey onto this stage. @adantecarter. @changeisfetch.

CALEB MATHURA (Kevin G). National tour debut! Last seen in the original company of Come Fall in Love at The Old Globe. 2022 alumnus of Point Park University and the LINK Program. Much love to the Mean Girls team, DGRW, Mary, Kiesha, Ahmad, my friends and family. For Papa and Eishe. @caleb_mathura. calebmathura.com. @changeisfetch.

LAWRENCE E. STREET (Mr. Duvall) is grateful to be back on stage and would also like to thank the audience for returning to live theater. Broadway: Urinetown (OBC). Off-Broadway: Carmen Jones (John Doyle, director). Tours: Flashdance (Sergio Trujilo, director). Please consider supporting the Mean Girls Artist Impact Team @changeisfetch and check out @streetlifenstuff. Take Care!

WESLEY J. BARNES (Ensemble). LA/ NY—CUI alum. Select credits: Jesus Christ Superstar (tour), The Tap Dance Kid, In the Heights, Newsies, The Scottsboro Boys , 42nd Street , Hairspray. Thank you Friends, Family, Bae and ATB Talent. Jer 29:11. wesleyjbarnes.com. Insta:@wesjbarnes @changeisfetch.

ERICA SIMONE BARNETT (Ensemble). National tour debut! Broadway/NYC: Matilda (OBC), Radio City Christmas

Spectacular. TV: “Broad City,” “SNL” and more. Gratitude to my family, Leo and every teacher along the way! “Nothing to prove, only to share” @ericasimonebarnett. @changeisfetch.

NOAH BLESSING ( Ensemble ) is psyched to be making his tour debut! His favorite credits include In the Heights (Dance Captain), Heathers (JD) and Assassins (Giuseppe Zangara). Noah wants to thank his friends, family, and God! @noahblessings.

MARY BETH DONAHOE (Ensemble) [she/her]. Jazzed about this high school reunion! Regional: Sacramento Music Circus, Paper Mill, MSMT, Fulton. B.F.A. Ohio Northern. Grateful: Hybrid, friends, and DHoe Team—you’re so fetch! Join us: @mbdonahoe. @changeisfetch.

NIANI FEELINGS ( Swing/Dance Captain) [she/her]. Regional: MUNY, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. B.F.A. Boston Conservatory. Big thanks to DGRW and the MG team. Endless love to my family, friends and Mom, always. @niani_. @changeisfetch.

SKY FLAHERTY ( Ensemble ). Broadway: The Grinch. Tour and movie: Newsies (Albert). European tour: Rock the Ballet (Dancer). Love to my mom, dad and family. Special thanks to Clinton Sherwood, Julianna and Chase (Clear Talent Group). @sky_flaherty. @changeisfetch.

SAMUEL GERBER (Swing) is ecstatic to be returning to #MeanGirlsTour. Regional: Newsies and West Side Story (The LEX). Endless thanks to Telsey, Casey, Tina, the team and Avalon. For Dad. MKNMS. @samuelgerber_. @changeisfetch.

JAMARY GIL ( Swing ). Afro-Latina and Point Park alumna. Credits: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Little Eva). Endless gratitude to Telsey and the creative team for believing in me! In honor of God’s love and my family. Corinthians 13:4. @changeisfetch.

MEGAN GROSSO ( Ensemble ) [she/ her] is overjoyed to be here! Tours: The Prom (Emma u/s), Regional: Dames at Sea, Crazy for You. B.F.A. from CCPA. Love to MG, The Mine, my family, and friends! @m_grosso. @changeisfetch.

DAN HORN (Ensemble) is excited to be back in high school! Broadway:

MEAN GIRLS

Cinderella , Bullets Over Broadway , Allegiance , Miss Saigon . Nat’l tour: Hello, Dolly! @thedanhorn. @changeisfetch.

MAYA IMANI (Ensemble) [she/her] is so excited to make her national tour debut at North Shore High! She is a Brooklyn-based artist from Atlanta, GA, and proud graduate of the University of Michigan. @_maya_imani_. @changeisfetch.

LILY KAUFMANN ( Ensemble ). Broadway: Mean Girls. National tour: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Regional: Kinky Boots (Lauren), Hairspray (Penny), PCLO, MTWichita; FSU alum. Overflowing with gratitude! Love to CESD and my Sam. @changeisfetch. @lilykaufmann.

MILAN MAGAÑA (Ensemble) [she/her]. Tour debut! Regional: A Chorus Line (Diana) and West Side Story (Anita). All the love to the MG team, UIA Talent and my circle of support. @changeisfetch. @milano97.

GRACE ROMANELLO (Swing, Assistant Dance Captain, Fight Captain ) is elated to return to North Shore High! Regional credits include Young Frankenstein (TBTS), Grease (RCCL). Endless love to family, friends and everyone who’s helped along the way. @graceromanello. @changeisfetch.

SYDNEY MEI RUF-WONG (Ensemble). “I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” —Van Gogh. Lead with curiosity and kindness. Infinite gratitude to my dear family, friends and the MG company! @sydneymei. @changeisfetch.

ADRIANA SCALICE ( Standby for Cady Heron, Regina George, and Janis Sarkisian ) [she/her]. Touring debut! Love and endless gratitude to her family, friends, the creative team, The Telsey Office and CGF. Adriana is a recent graduate of the musical theater program at Texas State University. @adrianascalice. adrianascalice.com. @changeisfetch.

KYRA SMITH ( Ensemble ) [she/ her] wants to thank the people in her life that led her here. Getting to do what she loves for a living is a gift. Point Park University. The Price Group. @kyra.l.smith. @changeisfetch.

AVILON TRUST TATE (Ensemble) is making his national tour debut! A current MT major at UNCG. Regional: R+H

Cinderella (NSMT). Endless gratitude to God, my Family, my agency The Collective, LINK4! IG: @avilon.tate.

KEVIN WANG ( Swing ) is excited to make his national tour debut! Regional: Camelot (Bay Street) B.F.A., Montclair State. Fiorello H. LaGuardia HS. Special thanks to the team, The Telsey Office, and my beautiful friends & family. @kevinthewang. @changeisfetch.

IAIN YOUNG (Ensemble). Broadway: Mean Girls (OBC), Newsies. National tour: Newsies first national. Regional: Mean Girls (world premiere). Film/ TV: Newsies , “Dancing with the Stars,” “GMA.” Other: Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Thanks to the team, my family and Clear Talent. @changeisfetch. @iainyoung.

TINA FEY (Book) is an award-winning writer, actress, author and producer. Fey is best known for creating and starring in the award-winning series “30 Rock.” She is also known for her awardwinning work as an actress and writer for “Saturday Night Live.” Currently, Fey is co-executive producing Season 2 of the critically acclaimed series “Mr. Mayor,” Season 2 of “Girls5Eva,” “Mulligan,” and Carrie & Me, the film adaption from the novel by Carol Burnett. Simultaneously, Fey is adapting the Broadway version of Mean Girls into a feature film with Paramount. The musical is a coming-of-age story that debuted on Broadway in 2018, marking Fey’s Broadway debut, and based off the 2004 cult classic film Mean Girls, written by Fey. She is thrilled to be taking the show nationwide.

JEFF RICHMOND (Music) is an awardwinning composer, songwriter and producer for television, theater and film. He served as composer and an Executive Producer on NBC’s “30 Rock,” winning three Primetime Emmy Awards alongside his wife Tina Fey. He was a musical director at The Second City in Chicago and at “Saturday Night Live,” where he spent five seasons composing original songs for stars like Jack Black, Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Jeff’s New York theater credits include the musical Melancholy Baby!, the inaugural production of the Ars Nova Theater and Mean Girls on Broadway, which opened in April 2018. His most recent television credits include “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix), “Great News” (NBC), “Mr. Mayor” (NBC), and “Girls5eva” (Peacock). Richmond was

nominated for the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 2018 for Mean Girls He currently lives in New York City with his wife and their two daughters.

NELL BENJAMIN (Lyrics). Broadway: Legally Blonde, with Laurence O’Keefe (Olivier Award, Tony nomination). OffBroadway and regional: The Explorers Club (Outer Critics Circle, Best Play); Cam Jansen ; Sarah, Plain and Tall ; Because of Winn-Dixie ; Half Time ; Pirates!; 3hree; New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve and Young Peoples’ concerts. Upcoming: Huzzah! , Life of the Party, Dave, Come Fall In Love, Walk of Shame , Cursed Pirate Girl Member of ASCAP and Dramatists Guild. Grateful recipient of a Kleban Foundation Award and a Jonathan Larson Grant. Most grateful for Larry and Persephone.

CASEY NICHOLAW ( Director and Choreo grapher ). Represented on Broadway as director/choreographer of Disney’s Aladdin (2014 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for Best Choreography), and co-director and choreographer of The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for co-director and nominations in the same categories for Choreography; Olivier award winner for Best Choreography). Other Broadway credits as director/choreographer: The Prom (2019 Tony nomination for Best Direction), Mean Girls (2018 Tony nominations for Best Direction and Choreography), Tuck Everlasting, Something Rotten! (2015 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for Best Direction and Choreography), Elf: The Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony and Drama Desk nominations for Best Direction and Choreography, Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Choreography), Monty Python’s Spamalot directed by Mike Nichols (2005 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Choreography). West End credits as director/choreographer: The Drowsy Chaperone , The Book of Mormon , Dreamgirls and Aladdin

SCOTT PASK (Scenic Design). Over 50 Broadway designs, including Mean Girls (Tony nom.); The Book of Mormon (Tony Award); The Band’s Visit (Tony nom.); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; The Prom ; Waitress ; Something Rotten!; Oh, Hello!; The Little Foxes; Pippin (Tony nomination); An Act of

WANT MORE BROADWAY IN YOUR LIFE?

We’ve got you covered with a massive lineup of the hottest shows direct from NYC. Next season, we’re bringing you a selection of music and nostalgia-filled spectacles that celebrate cultural megastars like Tina Turner, Alanis Morissette, Sting, MJ, all six wives of Henry VIII, Beetlejuice, and more! And we’re doing it all for you — our beloved patrons — so you can savor every heart-pounding, tear-inducing, stand-up-and-cheer moment of the season.

1776 Mar 21 – Apr 2, 2023

Buell Theatre

What will it take to get two dozen powerfully passionate, exceedingly complicated, and all-too-human individuals to settle their di erences, while they hold the very future of a nation in their hands? American Repertory Theater at Harvard University/ Roundabout Theatre Company’s new production of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, 1776, is a tuneful, witty, and constantly surprising reexamination of a pivotal moment in American history from directors Je rey L. Page (Violet) and Diane Paulus (Waitress). 1776 comes to Denver with the celebrated Broadway cast that reflects multiple representations of race, gender, and ethnicity. You may never think about our country—who we are and why—the same way again.

SIX

Dec 5 – 24, 2023

Buell Theatre

From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the microphone to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebration of 21st century girl power! This new original musical is the global sensation that everyone is losing their head over!

Featuring an all-woman cast and all-woman band, SIX has won 23 awards in the 2021/2022 Broadway season, including the Tony Award® for Best Original Score (Music and Lyrics) and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical.

The New York Times says SIX “TOTALLY RULES!” (Critic’s Pick) and The Washington Post hails SIX as “Exactly the kind of energizing, inspirational illumination this town aches for!”

The SIX: LIVE ON OPENING NIGHT Broadway album debuted at Number 1 on the Billboard cast album charts and surpassed 6 million streams in its first month.

Cabaret Show

To Be Announced • Garner Galleria Theatre

In our acclaimed Garner Galleria Theatre, we’ve brought you some of the best musicals and comedies in Denver Center history, including Always...Patsy Cline, Forbidden Broadway, An Act of God, Xanadu, The Other Josh Cohen, and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. This season we’ll bring another great cabaret title to the Galleria stage and as a valued subscriber, we’ll make sure you hear about this show first!

Jagged Little Pill

Aug 16 – 27, 2023

Buell Theatre

SOME SHOWS YOU SEE. THIS SHOW YOU FEEL. Joy, love, heartache, strength, wisdom, catharsis, LIFE— everything we’ve been waiting to see in a Broadway show— is here in the exhilarating, fearless new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s world-changing music.

Directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus (Waitress, Pippin, upcoming 1776) with a Tonywinning book by Diablo Cody (Juno) and Grammy-winning score, this electrifying production about a perfectly imperfect American family “vaults the audience to its collective feet” (The Guardian). “Redemptive, rousing and real, Jagged Little Pill stands alongside the original musicals that have sustained the best hopes of Broadway” (The New York Times).

You live, you learn, you remember what it’s like to feel truly human… at Jagged Little Pill

Message In A Bottle

Feb 13 – 25, 2024 Buell

Theatre

Message In A Bottle is a spectacular new dance-theatre show from triple-Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince inspired by and set to the iconic hits of 17-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sting, including Every Breath You Take, Roxanne, Walking On The Moon and more.

With a mix of exhilarating dance styles, high-energy footwork and breathtaking athleticism, Message In A Bottle tells a unifying and uplifting story of humanity and hope. The peaceful village of Bebko is alive with joyous celebrations. Suddenly, under attack, everything changes forever. Three siblings, Leto, Mati and Tana, must embark on perilous journeys in order to survive.

Message In A Bottle is the latest masterpiece from the groundbreaking choreographer behind several West End hits including Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, and features the astonishing talents of dance storytelling powerhouse, ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company.

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Beetlejuice

Sep 5 – 17, 2023

Buell Theatre

He earned his stripes on Broadway…now the ghost-with-the-most is coming to Denver.

It’s showtime! Based on Tim Burton’s dearly beloved film, this hilarious musical tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange and unusual teenager whose whole life changes when she meets a recently deceased couple and a demon with a thing for stripes. With an irreverent book, an astonishing set, and a score that’s out of this Netherworld, Beetlejuice is “SCREAMINGLY GOOD FUN!” (Variety). And under its uproarious surface (six feet under, to be exact), it’s a remarkably touching show about family, love, and making the most of every Day-O!

TINA – The Tina Turner Musical

Oct 18 – 29, 2023

Buell Theatre

HER VOICE IS UNDENIABLE. HER FIRE IS UNSTOPPABLE. HER TRIUMPH IS UNLIKE ANY OTHER.

An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock n’ Roll.

One of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, Tina Turner has won 12 Grammy Awards and her live shows have been seen by millions, with more concert tickets sold than any other solo performer in music history.

Featuring her much loved songs, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by the internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd.

MJ

Apr 10 – 28, 2024

Buell Theatre

The music. The showmanship. The icon. Now, the unparalleled artistry of the greatest entertainer of all time comes to Denver as MJ, the Tony Award®winning new musical centering on the making of the 1992 Dangerous World Tour, begins a tour of its own. Created by Tony Award®-winning Director/ Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage, MJ goes beyond the singular moves and signature sound of the star, o ering a rare look at the creative mind and collaborative spirit that catapulted Michael Jackson into legendary status. MJ is startin’ somethin’ as it makes its Colorado premiere at the Buell Theatre in April 2024.

Company May/Jun 2024 Buell Theatre

PHONE RINGS, DOOR CHIMES, IN COMES COMPANY.

Winner of 5 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Company is “sophisticated, intimate and in-tune with the currents of modern life—brilliantly conceived and funny as hell.” (Variety).

Helmed by three-time Tony Award-winning director Marianne Elliott (War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Angels in America) this revelatory new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s groundbreaking musical comedy is boldly sophisticated, deeply insightful, and downright hilarious.

It’s Bobbie’s 35th birthday party, and all her friends keep asking, why isn’t she married? Why can’t she find the right man and isn’t it time to settle down and start a family? As Bobbie searches for answers, she discovers why being single, being married, and being alive in the 21st-century could drive a person crazy.

God; Blackbird; The Pillowman (Tony Award); The Visit ; It’s Only a Play ; Finding Neverland; I’ll Eat You Last…; The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Hewes awards); Take Me Out ; Hair ; Pal Joey (Tony nomination); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Sweet Charity; Nine; and Urinetown Also Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna; Peter Grimes, Met Opera. Insta @scottpaskstudio.

GREGG BARNES (Costume Design). Broadway: Pretty Woman, Mean Girls (Tony nom.), Tuck Everlasting (Tony nom.), Something Rotten! (Tony nom.), Aladdin , Kinky Boots (Tony nom., Olivier Award), Follies (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Elf, Legally Blonde (Tony nom.), The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Olivier nom.), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Flower Drum Song (Tony nom.), Side Show Other: Dreamgirls (Olivier nomination), Sinatra (Radio City), Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Pageant (Olivier nomination), The Kathy and Mo Show TDF Young Master Award.

KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Design) designs extensively Off-Broadway and for resident theaters and touring productions throughout the U.S. as well as internationally. Selected Broadway credits: Beetlejuice, Pretty Woman, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, On Your Feet!, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray , Dirty Rotten Scoundrels , Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia: Shipwrecked, Other Desert Cities, The Merchant of Venice, Side Man, Wicked Recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle, Lucille Lortel and Obie awards.

BRIAN RONAN (Sound Design). Over 40 Broadway designs, including Mrs. Doubtfire, The Prom, Tootsie, Mean Girls , Margaritaville , Springsteen on Broadway, War Paint, The Last Ship, Beautiful , If/Then , Anything Goes , American Idiot, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening , Grey Gardens . On the West End: Spring Awakening, Book of Mormon and Beautiful. Off-Broadway designs include Bowie’s Lazarus, Giant, Rent , Everyday Rapture , Saved , 10 Million Miles and Bug. He is the recipient of Obie, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Olivier and Tony awards.

FINN ROSS (Video Design) has won two Olivier Awards, a Tony, three Drama Desk and two OCC awards. Recent

work: Frozen (international); Back to the Future (West End); The Tempest (RSC); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway/West End); American Psycho (Broadway/ Almeida); Betrayal (Broadway); The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Royal Opera House); The Crossing (A.R.T. Boston); Chimerica (Almeida/ West End); The Death of Klinghoffer, The Damnation of Faust, The Magic Flute (ENO); Master and Margarita (Complicité); A Dog’s Heart (DNO).

ADAM YOUNG ( Video Design ). Associate/Animation: Frozen (Broadway), The Tempest (RSC), The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Royal Opera House), The Damnation of Faust (ENO), Master and Margarita (Complicité). Live music design: Liam Gallagher (international tour), Jess Glynne (U.K. tour), Years & Years (international tour), Two Door Cinema Club (international tour), Bombay Bicycle Club (international tour). Exhibition design: Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure (NYC), 007xSPYSCAPE (NYC), The Rolling Stones— Exhibitionism (international tour). xR design: Over the Moon (Netflix), 2021 Olympic coverage (Eurosport/Discovery).

JOSH MARQUETTE ( Hair Design ). N.Y./London: The Prom , Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, Present Laughter, Dreamgirls, Paramour, Tuck Everlasting, School of Rock, Something Rotten!, Aladdin , Kinky Boots , The Book of Mormon, Trip of Love, First Date, Elf, Dogfight, The Best Man, Look Back in Anger , The Drowsy Chaperone , Pig Farm , The…Trailer Park Musical , Altar Boyz , Show Boat at Carnegie Hall, Mamma Mia! Encores!: Call Me Madam , Most Happy Fella and Follies. West Coast: Robin and the 7 Hoods, Peep Show, Minsky’s, Vanities Television: “The Slap,” “30 Rock,” “SNL.” Instagram: @josh_marquette.

MILAGROS MEDINA-CERDEIRA (Makeup Design). Broadway: The Prom, Mean Girls (New York and U.S. tour), Tuck Everlasting, Something Rotten! (New York and U.S. tour), Aladdin (New York, Japan, London, Hamburg, Australia, U.S. tour), Rocky Horror Show . Makeup Design Consultant: Present Laughter; Sister Act. Television: “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” (2018 Emmy nomination), “The Affair” (2016 Designing Women Award).

MARY-MITCHELL CAMPBELL (Music Supervision ). The Prom , Finding

Neverland , Big Fish , Company , Sweeney Todd , Tuck Everlasting , Sweet Charity, Next to Normal, The Addams Family. Drama Desk Award for Best Orchestrations for Company. TV: “Girls5Eva,” “Homeschool Musical.” She is the executive director of ASTEP (asteponline.org), which helps young people develop agency through the arts. She is a founding member of MUSE (museonline.org) and Maestra (maestramusic.org).

CHRIS KONG (Music Director). NYCbased pianist and music director. San Francisco Bay Area native. Broadway: Disney’s Frozen , Mean Girls , Pretty Woman , The Prom , Miss Saigon , Allegiance , Kinky Boots , Disney’s Newsies . Off-Broadway: Far From Heaven, Carrie, Silence!, Altar Boyz, Happiness , Radio City Christmas Spectacular. National tour: Phantom of the Opera (25th anniversary tour). Regional: Life After (Goodman Theatre, The Old Globe), Allegiance (The Old Globe). Proud member of MUSE (Musicians United for Social Equity). “It’s an honor just to be Asian.” — Sandra Oh.

JOHN CLANCY ( Orchestrations ). Broadway: Diana (Netflix 2021), Mean Girls (Tony nom.), Fun Home (Tony/ Drama Desk noms.), The Prom, Tuck Everlasting, Shrek The Musical (Tony/ Drama Desk noms.), Cats 2016 (dance arr.). Off-B’way/regional: The Secret Life of Bees (w/Duncan Sheik), Gun & Powder, Becoming Nancy, Soft Power (dance arr.) Fortress of Solitude, Jasper in Deadland , Rhianna: NBA All-Star Game (string arr.), New Irish Tenors: Orlando Symphony, 2018 Tony Awards opening by Sara Bareilles/Josh Groban, Goodspeed: Just So

GLEN KELLY (Dance and Incidental Music Arrangements ) was the arranger and music supervisor for The Producers , Young Frankenstein and Bullets Over Broadway, for which he also wrote lyrics. Additional arranging credits include Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Book of Mormon, A Christmas Story, The Scottsboro Boys , Aladdin and Something Rotten! He won the New York Drama Desk Award for his original score to The Nance

NATALIE TENENBAUM ( Vocal Arrangements). As composer, arranger and music director: Benjamin Button (York Theatre), Little Black Dress (Second City Toronto), John Guare’s

MEAN GIRLS

More Stars Than There Are in Heaven (Tennessee Williams Festival). Video game: Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games). TV: NBC’s “Maya & Marty.” Member: BMI Lehman Engel Workshop, Dramatists Guild. Broadway: David Byrne’s American Utopia Graduate: The Juilliard School. Love to Julie and Benjamin.

HOWARD JOINES (Music Coordinator).

Broadway: Company; Beetlejuice; The Prom ; Groundhog Day ; Bandstand ; Paramour; Allegiance; Aladdin; Matilda; Side Show ; Bullets Over Broadway ; A Night with Janis Joplin; Cinderella; Scandalous; Chaplin; Ghost; How to Succeed…; Promises, Promises; Bye Bye Birdie; Grease; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Conductor/percussionist (partial list of Broadway chairs): Groundhog Day, Matilda, Billy Elliot, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables. Radio City Music Hall: 14 years as associate conductor, and seven as contractor. For Robin and Taylor.

BILLY JAY STEIN ( Electronic Music Design). Founder of Strange Cranium Productions and STRIKE AUDIO Music Licensing Company. Winner of the 2015 Grammy Award for producing and mixing Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Composer, arranger and music producer for The Radio City Rockettes N.Y. Spectacular. Broadway credits include keyboardist and/or electronic music designer for Diana, MJ, Paradise Square, The Band’s Visit, Fun Home, Beautiful, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Hairspray, Amélie, Tuck Everlasting, The Rocky Horror Show and Jekyll & Hyde

THE TELSEY OFFICE (Casting). With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theater, film, television and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability and advocacy.

CASEY HUSHION (Associate Director).

Broadway: Mean Girls , The Prom , Aladdin, Elf, In the Heights, The Drowsy Chaperone, To Be or Not to Be, Good Vibrations and Nerds (almost). N.Y.: Call Me Madam (City Center Encores) and Fat Camp. Artistic Director of North Carolina Theatre (2009–2019). TV: “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” Current projects: Clue, Beehive at Paper Mill Playhouse and A Jolly Holiday with Disney on Broadway.

JOHN MacINNIS ( Associate Choreographer ). Associate credits: Broadway and national tour productions of The Book of Mormon, Disney’s Aladdin, Something Rotten! and the London production of Dreamgirls Choreography credits: Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Japan), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Europe). Director/ Choreographer credits: the Olympic medals ceremonies at the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympic Games, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes 1998–2000 (Mexico).

THOMAS SCHALL ( Fight Director ). Over 100 Broadway shows… A Soldier’s Play (Drama Desk Award: Fight Choreography), Company , To Kill a Mockingbird, True West, War Horse, Romeo and Juliet. Off-Broadway: N.Y. Theater Workshop ( Othello— Drama Desk nomination, Red Speedo), The Public Theater (Hamlet, The Low Road), Roundabout Theatre ( Scotland, PA ; Waiting for Godot), MTC (Choir Boy, Murder Ballad), The Armory (The Hairy Ape—Drama Desk nomination).

AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Production Management ). Beetlejuice (Korea), Book of Mormon, Company, Frozen (Australia, Germany, London, Japan, North American tour), Hadestown (tour), Is This A Room/Dana H., Mean Girls (tour), Plaza Suite, Springsteen on Broadway , The Lehman Trilogy , The Music Man, To Kill a Mockingbird Aurora has been providing technical supervision and production management to the entertainment industry since 1989.

MICHELLE DUNN (Production Stage Manager) [she/her]. Broadway: The Lion King . Tours: Miss Saigon , The Phantom of the Opera, The Lion King Please consider donating to underrepresented aspiring young theater artists: @crrscholarship and @thefundforcollegeauditions. For Dad. @changeisfetch.

EMMA RAMSAY-SAXON ( Stage Manager) [she/her]. I’m immeasurably grateful for my family—I love you 281. @be.saxon. Thanks to the Mean Girls team! I’m so happy to be back; let’s make a difference together @changeisfetch.

JOHN CARPENTIER (Assistant Stage Manager) [he/him]. Previously on the first national tour of The SpongeBob Musical and thrilled to be back out on the road! Stay safe and take care

of one another. @john.carpentier. @changeisfetch.

RACHAEL WILKIN ( Assistant Stage Manager ) [she/her]. National tours: Oklahoma! , Miss Saigon , Waitress , Fiasco’s Into the Woods , Pippin . Scenic fabrication/painting: The Humans (Broadway). @changeisfetch.

THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency ) has represented 27 Tony Award-winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current tours include: Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, The Book of Mormon, 1776, Hadestown, Mean Girls , MJ The Musical , Pretty Woman, Six, Tina, To Kill a Mockingbird, Anastasia, Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof, Hairspray, My Fair Lady, R.E.S.P.E.C.T and Tootsie . Future tours include: Almost Famous, Funny Girl, Mamma Mia!, Mrs. Doubtfire, A Strange Loop, The Devil Wears Prada and The Wiz

ALLIED GLOBAL MARKETING (Tour Marketing & Press) is an integrated marketing agency working with the world’s largest entertainment, sports, consumer, and lifestyle brands, including 75+ Broadway shows over more than two decades. Current tours: Ain’t Too Proud, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Elf The Musical, Hadestown, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, Tootsie. Upcoming tours: Funny Girl, Into the Woods, Mrs. Doubtfire, Wheel of Fortune LIVE!.

THOMPSON TURNER PRODUCTIONS

(General Manager) is a Broadway management company founded by the late Stuart Thompson and David Turner in 2015. Current shows include worldwide productions of The Book of Mormon, Mean Girls and the current revival of Company . Adam J. Miller has managed six productions with Stuart and David, beginning with The Seagull in 2008. He has managed Mormon since 2011. Rebecca Habel joined TTP in 2015 to manage King Charles III. She was previously a General Manager at Roundabout Theatre Company and Vineyard Theatre.

LORNE MICHAELS ( Producer ) is a writer and producer who has worked extensively in TV and film, best known as the creator and executive producer of the landmark NBC show “Saturday Night Live.” He made his Broadway debut in 1979 directing Gilda Radner–Live from New York, and is pleased to return to the stage with Tina Fey, whom he met when she began as a writer for

“SNL.” Their subsequent work together includes the critically acclaimed series “30 Rock” as well as the films Mean Girls, Baby Mama and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot . Other notable film credits include Three Amigos, Wayne’s World and Tommy Boy. Honors include 20 Emmy Awards, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, a Personal Peabody Award, the Order of Canada, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Kennedy Centers Honors.

STUART THOMPSON (Producer) was a six-time Tony Award-winning producer and general manager. He produced the three longest-running plays on Broadway of the past 26 years: Proof, The Tale of the Allergists Wife and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Select Broadway credits: Sweat; King Charles III; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2013); Death of a Salesman (2012); Jerusalem; The Motherf**ker with the Hat; A View from the Bridge (2010); God of Carnage; Exit the King; Doubt; Caroline, or Change; Take Me Out ; Amy’s View ; Closer ; The Blue Room; Art; Skylight; Master Class; Tru; and A Few Good Men. West End credits: No Man’s Land, King Charles III. He served as Executive Producer for the U.S. companies of The Book of Mormon and co-produced the West End and Australian productions.

SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is an international production company responsible for some of the most successful theater productions of recent years. Since 1990, Sonia Friedman OBE and SFP have developed, initiated and produced 180 new productions and won a combined 58 Oliviers, 34 Tonys and 2 BAFTAs. Current: The Book of Mormon (London and U.K. and European tour), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London, New York, Melbourne, San Francisco and Hamburg), Mean Girls (U.S. tour) and the world premiere of Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt. Upcoming: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Toronto and Tokyo), Dreamgirls (U.K. tour), The Shark is Broken (London), To Kill a Mockingbird (London), Jerusalem (London) and Funny Girl (Broadway). SoniaFriedman.com

PARAMOUNT PICTURES ( Producer) has, for over 100 years, produced and distributed some of the world’s most iconic films, including The Godfather, the Mission: Impossible series, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Forrest Gump,

the Transformers series and Titanic Live stage productions in development include Almost Famous, Roman Holiday and Clueless. A division of ViacomCBS, Paramount Pictures Corporation controls a collection of some of the most powerful brands in filmed entertainment, including Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Television Studios, Paramount Players, MTV Films and Nickelodeon Movies. Paramount is thrilled to be bringing the beloved movie Mean Girls to the live stage.

MARISA SECHREST (Co-Producer) is a producer and the live stage representative for Paramount Pictures. She is currently represented on Broadway as a co-producer of Waitress. Marisa serves on the board of Playwrights Horizons and lectures on producing at Commercial Theater Institute. Graduate of Harvard Law School and member of The Broadway League. altairlive.com

BERLIND PRODUCTIONS (Co-Producer). Recent Tony-winning Broadway productions include The Book of Mormon; Death of a Salesman; One Man, Two Guvnors; Twelfth Night/ Richard III; All the Way; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A View from the Bridge; Hello, Dolly!; and Dear Evan Hansen

STEVE BURKE (Co-Producer) is the former CEO of NBCUniversal, one of the largest and most diverse media companies in the world, which includes NBC, Universal Pictures, Universal Theme Parks and cable networks, including USA, Bravo, SyFy, E!, NBCSN, Golf, MSNBC and CNBC. Before taking over NBCU in 2011, he spent over a decade as the head of Comcast Cable, growing it into the largest cable provider in America.

SCOTT M. DELMAN ( Co-Producer ) is a transatlantic theater enthusiast, investor and producer. Over the past ten years, Scott has invested, co-produced and lead-produced some 100 West End and Broadway productions. Mr. Delman’s Broadway efforts have earned 35 Tony nominations and 14 Tony Awards. Scott thanks the entire Mean Girls team for inviting him to join them on this journey but his special gratitude goes to the incomparable Stuart Thompson.

ROY FURMAN ( Co-Producer ). Co-producer of 16 Tony Award-winning musicals and plays, including Moulin Rouge!; Dear Evan Hansen; The Book

of Mormon ; The Color Purple ; The Band’s Visit ; Hello, Dolly! ; and War Horse . Currently on Broadway: MJ , Moulin Rouge!, Tina, Dear Evan Hansen and Book of Mormon. Off-Broadway: Trevor and Little Shop of Horrors. Vice Chairman Jefferies LLC, former Vice Chairman Lincoln Center.

ROBERT GREENBLATT (Co-Producer) has received the Golden Globe (“Six Feet Under”), three Tony awards (Dear Evan Hansen , Gentleman’s Guide… , The Inheritance ) and two Oliviers (Dear Evan Hansen, The Inheritance). He produced six NBC live musicals (from “The Sound of Music” to “Jesus Christ Superstar” to “Annie”) and ran WarnerMedia Entertainment, HBO, HBO Max, NBC, Showtime, and Fox Broadcasting over the past 30 years.

JAM THEATRICALS ( Co-Producer ), under the direction of co-founder and CEO Steve Traxler, managed Broadway subscription series in 26 cities throughout North America, operated the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. and produced 60 shows on Broadway, receiving 12 Tony Awards prior to becoming part of the Nederlander Organization in November 2019.

THE JOHN GORE ORGANIZATION ( Co-Producer ) family of companies includes Broadway Across America and Broadway.com, under the supervision of 11-time Tony Award-winning producer John Gore (Chairman and CEO). Productions include Ain’t Too Proud, Company, Dear Evan Hansen, Girl From the North Country, Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge!, Tina, Waitress BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com. Broadway.com.

BENJAMIN LOWY ( Co-Producer ). Previously produced on Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life (Tony Award nomination) starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Betrayal (Tony Award nom.) starring Tom Hiddleston. Selected co-producer credits: The Ferryman (Tony Award), To Kill a Mockingbird , Hadestown (Tony Award), Angels in America (Tony Award), Three Tall Women, Sunday in the Park with George

JAMES L. NEDERLANDER ( Co-Producer ). President of Nederlander Organization. Credits: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jagged Little Pill, The Band’s Visit , On Your Feet! , Mean Girls, The Humans, My Fair Lady, The Elephant Man, Next to Normal, Movin’ Out and many others.

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NO GUARANTEES ( Co-Producer ) is a theatrical production company founded by Christine Schwarzman, a 2019 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical ( Hadestown ), and a 6-time Tony nominee. Producing credits include the N.Y. premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Soft Power

UNIVERSAL THEATRICAL GROUP (CoProducer), the live theater division of Universal Pictures, is currently represented on Broadway by the musical phenomenon Wicked. Additional credits include Billy Elliot, Bring It On, Shrek, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn and the West End premiere of The Prince of Egypt, currently playing at the Dominion Theatre.

RUTH HENDEL (Co-Producer). Ain’t Too Proud, Beetlejuice, The Band’s Visit (Tony), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Tony), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony), Clybourne Park (Tony), Red (Tony), Fela! (Broadway, London’s National Theatre, national and international tours). Upcoming: A Walk on the Moon, George Street Playhouse, Spring 2022.

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(Co-Producer), founded by Jenny and Jon Steingart. Theater: Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award); Sir Patrick Stewart’s A Christmas Carol; Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; Jeff Richmond’s Melancholy Baby! Film/ TV: We Are Freestyle Love Supreme; Black Dynamite. Co-founding partners of FLS Academy. Founders of Ars Nova Theater, NYC’s premier hub for emerging artists.

DAVID TURNER (Executive Producer) began working with the late Stuart Thompson in 2008. Productions they managed together include BoeingBoeing, God of Carnage, Jerusalem, The Present, Sweat and The Book of Mormon worldwide. Prior to coming to work with Stuart, David managed numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions and cofounded the Adirondack Theatre Festival. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

STAFF FOR MEAN GIRLS

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

THOMPSON TURNER PRODUCTIONS

David Turner Adam J. Miller Rebecca Habel

Joe Baker Aidan Cleary Carrli Cooper

Jessie Douglas Justin Gleiberman Garrett Holtz

Carrie Jablansky Susan Keappock

Drew Kowalkowski Marty McGuire

James Odgen II Rebecca Sherman

Ali Sousa Maggie Swahl Brittany Weber

Marcus Wynn George Youakim

Thompson Turner Productions is a partner in the Black Theatre Coalition Broadway General Management Fellowship Program

COMPANY MANAGER

Rosa Taylor

Assistant Company Manager ........ Tameka Sadler

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

AURORA PRODUCTIONS

Ben Heller Liza Luxenberg Ryan Murphy Chris Minnick Luke Ricca Martijn Appelo Michael Gurdo Tor Rametta Jack Rhea Cori Gardner

TOUR BOOKING AGENCY

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MARKETING & BRAND CONSULTANT

BRAND NEXUS Michele Groner

CASTING

THE TELSEY OFFICE Bethany Knox, CSA Meghan Ryan

FIGHT DIRECTOR

Thomas Schall

PEOPLE & CULTURE Cornerstone Consulting HR LLC Colette Luckie Dr. Heather R. Sanders Leland Barnecut Eljah I. Wilson

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THE LORNE MICHAELS COMPANY

Caroline Maroney Jack Sullivan Micah Frank

Production Stage Manager Michelle Dunn Stage Manager Emma Ramsay-Saxon

Assistant Stage Manager ................. John Carpentier

Assistant Stage Manager Rachael Wilkin

Associate Scenic Designer Orit Jacoby Carroll Assistant Scenic Designer Gabriel Firestone

Associate Costume Designer Mark Koss Assistant Costume Designers... Brooke Cohen Brown, Meriwether Snipes, Avery Reed, James Nguyen

Costume Consultant Tricia Barsamian

Associate Lighting Designer Joel Shier

Assistant Lighting Designers Wilburn Bonnell, Jeremy Cunningham

Associate Sound Designer Cody Spencer

Associate Hair Designer Jimmy Goode

Electronic Music Design Billy Jay Stein, Hiro Iida and Fuso Murase for Strange Cranium Productions Inc.

Music Copying Emily Grishman Music Preparation/ Emily Grishman, Alden Terry Animator Patrick Lord

Ableton Live/Max Music Systems

Music Programmer

Christopher D. Petti

Production Carpenter Jon Wildesen

Head Carpenter

................................... Sean Sacco

Automation Corey Tobin

Flyman Tommy Seawright

Carpentry Swing Austin Phillips

Production Electrician Dan Coey

Head Electrician ............................... Adam Lansing

Video Electrician Matthew Hrinko

Followspot Judith Lopez

Electrics Swing Jes Halm

Lighting Programmer Scott Tusing

Production Video Supervisor ................ Ian Crawford

Video Programmer Daniel Mueller

Production Sound Engineer Dillon Cody

Head Sound Natalie Moran

Assistant Sound Sherie Farmer

Production Properties Dan Brown Head Properties Brittany Maxwell

Assistant Properties Nikolas Gonzalez-Hernandez

Wardrobe Supervisor Jocelyn Seawright

Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Feliciano Gonzales

Dresser Season Joy Saulet

Wardrobe Swing Keller Anderson

Hair Supervisor .................................... Briana Capo

Assistant Hair Supervisor Angela Hooper

Music Department Assistant Michael Pacifico

Production Assistants Jessica Fleischman, Willy Kinch, Mandy Scott, Kiersten Mason

Associate General Manager ................. Garrett Holtz

Supervising COVID Safety Manager Marty McGuire

COVID Safety Manager Malloree Hill

Medical Supervisor for COVID Safety Dr. Linda Dahl

Merchandise Managers Edmarie Martinez Rosado, Emily Valentin Vega

Costume Design Intern KT Harris

Assistants to Lorne Michaels Peyton Nora, Mollie Hirschheimer

Assistant to Jack Sullivan Sophie Barrio

Assistant to Tina Fey ....................... Sydney Monroe

Assistant to Jeff Richmond Lizzie Frieder

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Payroll Checks & Balances Payroll Inc. Accountant WithumSmith+Brown Robert Fried, CPA, Karen Kowgios, CPA, Anthony Moore, CPA

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Digital Marketing Situation Interactive Production Photographers Joan Marcus, Mary Ellen Matthews, Jenny Anderson

Physical Therapy ................... NEURO TOUR Physical Therapy, Inc.; Maeve Talbot

Physical Therapy Medical Director Craig Weil, MD

Travel Agent Tzell Travel/The “A” Team

CREDITS

Scenery and Scenic Effects built, painted, electrified and automated by Show Motion, Inc., Milford, CT. Automation and Show Control by Show Motion, Inc., Milford, CT, using the AC3 Computerized Motion Control System. Lighting Equipment from PRG Lighting; Video Equipment from PRG Video; Sound equipment provided by Masque Sound, Costumes by Arel Studio, Inc.; By Barak, LLC; Tricorne, Inc., Storm Ritter. Costume painting, dyeing, and dis- tressing by Jeff Fender Studio. Custom sportswear by BQ Sports. Custom puppetry by Hat Rabbit Studio. Custom mascots by Shafton, Inc. Custom Crafts by Mio Design NYC, LLC, Yvette Helin and Bad Monkey Props. Custom millinery by Lynne Mackey Studio and Ann Claire Millinery. Custom fabric printing by AMP NYC. Custom knitwear by Maria Ficalora. Custom Shoes by LaDuca Shoes. Tap shoes provided by The Miller and Ben Tap Shoes. Undergarments provided by Bra*Tenders. Tom Carroll Scenery; Bad Monkey Props; Behind The Mule Studios; Paper Mache Monkey; Brenbri Properties; Wigs made by Magnolia Wigs; Photo of George Michael by Michael Putland.

SPECIAL THANKS

Joe Baker, Hailei Call, Holly Coombs, A. Jamal Davis Jessie Douglas, Clay Harding, Becca Petersen, Andrew Resnick, SpotCo, Brendon Stimson

Makeup provided by M•A•C Cosmetics

Souvenir merchandise designed and created by Creative Goods

The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The Director and Choreographer are members of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

All stage work performed by employees represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

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The musicians, conductors, music preparation personnel and librarians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.

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MAKING IT THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL WITH

BY JOHN MOORE

FFor millions of us, high school was no laughing matter. More like downright grotsky. Until there was Tina.

Celebrated comedy writer Tina Fey found fetch in your mom’s chest hair when she wrote the catchphrase-rich screenplay for Mean Girls, which rocketed from teen cult fave to bona-fide box-office pink in 2004, grossing more than $128 million. Fey’s take on the well-worn subject of cliques who rule the school was different from its many pop-culture predecessors, her husband says, “because she’s funny – and she’s funny in a way that holds up.”

Fey adapted Mean Girls into a stage musical that has found widespread audience appeal because unlike, say, Stephen King’s Carrie, the nasty kids don’t end up fried in the high-school gym. They are redeemed. That’s because Mean Girls is about more than just the mean girls.

“Oh, there are many mean people in high school,” said Jeff Richmond, an Emmy-winning composer who married Fey in 2001 and wrote the music for the Mean Girls musical. “But there are also very sweet people, and very broken people, and very hurt people, too. And with this musical, we are trying to give all of them a voice and a sense of self-importance.”

The irony of the musical’s title, Richmond said, “is that the show is so joyful and so much fun. The title does hang on that one word – Mean – but there’s so much more to it than that.”

Fey based her film on the self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes by Rosalind Wiseman. The story follows

a homeschooled girl who joins a girl group called The Plastics, only to learn first-hand the price of sacrificing your true self for a spot at the top of the popularity food chain. Fey’s script produced one classic line after another, some that theatregoers now shout out during live performances. (“Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen! ”)

Successfully adapting that proven source material to the stage largely depended on how the music of Richmond and lyricist Nell Benjamin would enhance the show’s overall message of acceptance. Their versatile score produced multiple anthems, among them “I’d Rather Be Me (Than Be With You)” and “Where Do You Belong?”

Richmond cites “I See Stars” as a song that strikes to the heart of Mean Girls. “That’s a song that says everybody is a star, in their own right, no matter what group you are in,” he said. “The song contains an important line that says: ‘I see you there. I see you.’ People in high school – or really anyone at any time in their lives – might feel like they disappear amongst all the noise and glitz of the world. Just being seen is important.”

When Richmond was in high school in Ohio, he was not an athlete. But he was funny, and he navigated adolescent tribulations using comedy as a defense. He found his way into choir and singing groups and marching band, all of which pointed him in the direction of a musical career that has run through “Saturday Night Live,” where he spent five seasons composing original songs for stars such as Jack

(L-R): English Bernhardt (Cady Heron), Jasmine Rogers (Gretchen Wieners), Nadina Hassan (Regina George),Morgan Ashley Bryant (Karen Smith), Lindsay Heather Pearce (Janis Sarkisian) and the National Touring Company of Mean Girls Credit: © 2022 Jenny Anderson

Black, Queen Latifah and Catherine Zeta-Jones; “30 Rock,” with his wife; and most recently “Girls5eva,” for musical comedy on Peacock.

If they had prepped together, Richmond said, he and Fey might have been high-school sweethearts. “Actually, no, that would have been terrible,” he self-corrected with a laugh. “We would have broken up by junior year for sure.”

It’s probably no coincidence that the motto of Fey’s Pennsylvania high school was, “Where Every One Is Royalty.” Like Richmond, Fey found the funny people at her Upper Darby High School. “She played tennis, but she wasn’t really an athlete,” Richmond said. “She did drama, but she also loved being on the stage crew, and she loved any opportunity for writing. I think she found her way through high school with her caustic wit.”

Richmond and Fey met at Chicago’s famed Second City, and now have two children. When Fey left “SNL” to develop “30 Rock” in 2006, Richmond composed the theme song, appeared as the character “Alphonso Disperioso” and directed five episodes.

HONORING OUR ELDERS

— JEFF RICHMOND, EMMY-WINNING COMPOSER AND HUSBAND TO BOOK WRITER TINA FEY

Now 18 years since the Mean Girls film, Richmond isn’t surprised that the story is still speaking not only to a new generation of girls but to their parents and grandparents as well.

“There is just a very universal feeling about the whole thing,” he said. “Everyone knows how it feels to be bullied, and that transcends high school. Bullying certainly has gotten into our day-to-day culture, especially in the past 10 years. But Mean Girls asks, ‘If you’re bullying somebody, why are you doing that? Are you hurt also?’”

And Fey is asked by young people all the time for her advice on making it through high school.

“Tina will remind any kid that, yes, four years feels like eternity, but it’s really not,” Richmond said. “You will come out the other side ready to face life, and all those problems you had before will be behind you.

“There’s a line in the opening number where Damien says, ‘And no one died.’ For a while, we had that as the last line in the show. Because the whole idea is that you’re going to get through this. I actually liked high school very much, and I have to say: Life just keeps getting better as you get past all that. And you do get past it.”

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“Bullying certainly has gotten into our day-to-day culture…. But Mean Girls asks, ‘If you’re bullying somebody, why are you doing that? Are you hurt also?’ ”

Mean Girls Creative Team (L-R) Casey Nicholaw, Tina Fey, Jeff Richmond, Nell Benjamin. Photo by Jenny Anderson.

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Ticketing & Audience Services

Jennifer Lopez Director

Christina Adamoli*, D.J. Dennis*, Edmund Gurule*, Chris Leech*, Elias Lopez*, Hayley Solano*, Sam Stump* Counter/Show Leads

Kirsten Anderson*, Scott Lix*,

Liz Sieroslawski*,

Greg Swan* Subscription Agents

Wisline Cledgett*, Elliot Davis*, Jen Gray*, Chántel Healy*, Natalie Jaramillo*, Genevieve Gionet, Phi Johnson-Grimes, Noah Jungferman*, Lane Randall*, Andrew Sullivan*,

Dewey Tran* Ticket Agents

Jon Collins Manager, Subscription

Katie Davis Coordinator, VIP Ticketing

Billy Dutton Associate Director, Operations

Danielle Freeman Manager, Customer Service

Roger Haak Manager, VIP Ticketing

Claire Hayes, Ella Mann Managers, Box Office

Katie Spanos Associate Director, Subscriber Services

Group Sales

Jessica Bergin Associate Director

Brad Steinmeyer Coordinator

Maddie Young Education & Group Sales Associate

Theatre Services

Evan Gendreau Associate Director Elliot Shields Manager

Bryan Faciane, Kaylyn Kriaski, Leilani Lynch, Aaron McMullen, Stacy Norwood, Valerie Schaefer Assistant Managers

Nora Caley, Teresa Gould, Robin Lander, Myrisa Martin, Barbara Pooler, Wendy Quintana House Managers

ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

Jane Williams CFO

Sara Brandenburg Director, Accounting Services

Michaele Davidson Treasury Accountant

Jennifer Jeffrey Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Valerie Lingbloom General Ledger Accountant

Kristina Monge Accounts Payable Specialist

Jennifer Siemers Director, Accounting

HUMAN RESOURCES

Laura Maresca Vice President Brian Carter, Lizette Collazos Directors

Kate Faust Coordinator

Paul Johnson Payroll Specialist

Monica Robles Supervisor, Mailroom Kinsey Scholl Operations Specialist

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Lisa Roebuck Vice President

For security purposes, the IT team has been omitted.

OPERATIONS

Vincent Bridgers Senior Analyst

Adam Busch Junior Analyst

Aaron Chavez Lead Ruben Cruz Engineer

Simone Gordon Associate Director

Kyle Greufe Analyst

Brandon LeMarr Manager

Sarah Martinez Analyst

Jacob Parker Associate Director

Joseph Reecher Senior Engineer

Chris Robisch Analyst

Cordelia Taylor Coordinator Allyssa Welker Administrator

OFF-CENTER

Charlie Miller Executive Director & Curator

THEATRE COMPANY

Administration

Charles Varin Managing Director

Madysen Hunter Business Admin/ Assistant Company Manager

Ann Marshall General Manager

Sabina Rivera Company Manager

Artistic

Chris Coleman Artistic Director

Melissa Cashion Artistic Producer Grady Soapes Artistic Producer & Director of Casting

Leean Kim Torske Director of Literary Programming

Production

Jeff Gifford Director

Julie Brou Administrative Assistant/ Office Manager

Matthew Campbell Production Manager

Peggy Carey Associate Production Manager

Scenic Design

Lisa Orzolek Director

Kevin Nelson, Nicholas Renaud Assistants

Lighting Design

Charles MacLeod Director

Lily Bradford Assistant Joseph Price+ Production Electrician Sound Design

Alexander Billman Supervisor Meagan Holdeman+, Timothy Schoeberl+ Technicians

Stage Management

Michael Morales Production Stage Manager

Martinique Barthel, Corin Davidson, Rachel Ducat, Wendy Blackburn Eastland, Stephanie Holmes, Anne Jude, Rick Mireles, Nick Nyquist, Katie An Siegel, Malia Stoner, Kristin Sutter, Christine Woods Stage Managers

Angie Salazar, Devon Weisnsch Stage Management Apprentices

Anna Cordova, Katy Gentry, Harper Hadley, Sage Hughes, Katie Liguori, Kaden Dolph, Kelsea Sibold, Alex Koszewski, Tristan Andersen TOTM Experience Attendants

Scene Shop

Eric Moore Technical Director

Albert “Stub” Allison, Robert L. Orzolek, Josh Prues Associate Technical Directors Tyler D. Clark, Amy Wynn Pastor, Kyle Scoggins Scenic Technicians Louis Fernandez III Lead Scenic Technician Brian “Marco” Markiewicz Lead Carpenter

Prop Shop

Meghan Markiewicz Supervisor Jamie Curl, Georgina Kayes, Ashley Lawler Artisans Cat V Kerr Associate Props Supervisor Andrew McGlothen Prop Carpenter

Paint Shop

Jana Mitchell Charge Scenic Artist Kristin Hamer MacFarlane, Melanie Rentschler Scenic Artists

Costume Shop

Janet Macleod Director/Design Associate Meghan Anderson Doyle Design Associate Stephanie Cooper, Ingrid Ludeke, Carolyn Plemitscher Draper Costume Crafts

Kevin Copenhaver Director Chris Campbell Assistant

Wigs

Diana Ben-Kiki Supervisor

House Crew

Douglas Taylor+ Supervisor James Berman+, Forest Fowler+, William Loving+, Dave Mazzeno+, Kyle Moore+, Matt Wagner+ Stagehands Calli Lavarnway+ Kelley “Reznik” Russell+ Assistants

Wardrobe

Heidi Echtenkamp Supervisor Robin Appleton^, Amber Krimbel^, David La Beaux^, Lauren LaCasse , Lisa Parsons Wagner , Kami Williams^ Dressers Jerome Horng^, Marisa Sorce^ Wig Assistants

* Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local B-7

+ Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local

^ Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local

LLocated in the heart of Denver, BMW of Denver Downtown has always had its fingers on the pulse of the city. Denver is such a unique and exciting place to live and do business and BMW of Denver Downtown has made giving back to such a vibrant community its preeminent goal. From the very beginning, they’ve made it their duty to ensure that they made a difference with how they did business.

From the moment one walks into the state-of-the-art showroom, there’s no doubt that this will be a different experience. One that is just as elegant and powerful as the German-engineered vehicles sold and serviced at the dealership. More than that, the promise of transparency that BMW of Denver Downtown makes to all customers is what has made it such a fixture in the lives of Denver’s citizens.

Never pay dealer handling fees, never pay over MSRP, never pay addendums or market adjustments to pricing, always pay less for a new BMW compared to the competition. These few words speak for themselves on why more people have chosen to do business with BMW of Denver Downtown – they are a dealership whose mission is to provide an experience that their guests want and deserve.

This commitment to excellence and a higher call to the community are things that come naturally to BMW of Denver Downtown. It’s an experience that everyone should be able to enjoy, just like the impressive outreach made possible by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, which is why BMW of Denver Downtown has partnered with the DCPA.

Both are proud members of the Denver community and share a passion for turning the unattainable into very much attainable for everyone. It’s a passion that goes so much further beyond and into making Denver a city everyone wants to live in.

To learn more about all the ways BMW of Denver Downtown is helping the greater Denver community, visit BMWofDenverDowntown.com and see why more people choose BMW of Denver Downtown for their next luxury vehicle.

BMW of Denver Downtown has made giving back to such a vibrant community its preeminent goal.

PROUD SPONSOR OF CAMP CHRISTMAS AND DCPA BROADWAY’S GOLDEN CIRCLE

FEBRUARY 3 – 12,

MARCH 10 – 19,

ASUKA SASAKI & JONNATHAN RAMIREZ BY RACHEL NEVILLE TICKETS

2023

presented by LYNNETTE MORRISON

2023

presented by MidFirst Bank

JENNIFER GRACE BY RACHEL NEVILLE

At the Ellie Caulkins Opera House with live music featuring the Colorado Ballet Orchestra Supported by:

PROUD SPONSOR OF THE DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

— THE DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

TThe Denver Post is proud to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, both through sponsorship of its acclaimed theatre productions as well as with grant funding through The Denver Post Community Foundation. Our longstanding partnership with DCPA has given countless individuals of all ages, the opportunity to experience and develop a lifelong appreciation for the arts.

The Denver Post Community believes in giving back to the communities in which it serves and proudly supports hundreds of nonprofits’ programs and events. Support is given in many ways: through The Denver Post Community Foundation, employee volunteering, and in-kind advertising.

The Denver Post Community Foundation, a recognized 501 (c)(3) nonprofit agency, raises funds through individual and corporate donations, through its unique signature events and programs and through the annual holiday Season To Share campaign. The overall mission is to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community through support of programs that benefit arts and culture; children and youth; education and literacy, and the provision of basic human services. To date, over $8,377,750.00 has been raised and distributed.

· Signature Events and Programs

These well-established events and programs have become staples in the community. They offer partners, participants and volunteers something unique each year. They include: Pen & Podium Literary Lecture Series, Passport To The Arts, and the Colorado State Spelling Bee

· The Denver Post Season To Share

The Denver Post Season To Share holiday fundraising campaign kicks off on October 30 and runs through December 31, 2022. Donations up to $1,000,000 will be matched at $.50 per dollar, by our matching partner the Denver Children’s Foundation, making an even greater impact for our neighbors in need. These funds will support more than 50 local nonprofit agencies working to nourish those who experience hunger, house those in need of a permanent home, prepare children and youth for success in the classroom and in life and protect children and families in need with medical care. Visit seasontoshare.com for more information.

Together We Can Make A Difference denverpostcommunity.com

We are so grateful to our partners and to the thousands of donors and event participants over the years that have helped to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community.

The Denver Post Pen & Podium Series

(right) Author Colm Toibin

The Denver Post Season To Share

“CBS Colorado is here to bring you the news about what’s happening at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and arts and culture in your neighborhood, because your community is our community too. We cover Colorado first and we care about continuing to make Colorado a great place to live, work and play. Enjoy the show and tune in to CBS Colorado or visit www.cbscolorado.com for regular updates on performances in your community.”

COMMITTED TO COVERING ARTS AND CULTURE AND PROUD PARTNER OF THE DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

— CBS COLORADO GENERAL MANAGER TIM WIELAND

TOP: CBS4 The ARTS | (l-r) Actor Gareth Saxe, Multi-Media Journalist Dillon Thomas & Actress Desirée Mee Jung in a choreography rehearsal for Much Ado About Nothing | BOTTOM: 20th Chalk Art Festival