Date/Time: Friday, 10th January 2025 at 14:30
Location: Savoy Theatre, Savoy Court, The Strand, London, WC2R 0ET
Price: £50 per person. Member and guest £100. Face value £101pp
Event Organiser: Pete Wells. Flat 7, Wayfaring Court, Safflower Lane, Romford RM3 0LQ
It’s been twenty years since Tina Fey’s sharp-tongued tale of Plastics, Mathletes and non-regular moms laid bare the high-school jungle. The musical version – previously staged on Broadway, then filmed – brings the story bang up to date with gags about Ozempic, smartphone filters and social media.
Several songs almost get there such as Stupid With Love, performed by North Shore High newbie Cady (Charlie Burn), in the flush of “calculust” with Aaron (Daniel Bravo) from her math class. Each of the school’s clique of immaculate Plastics is given a solo. Georgina Castle, as the feared and revered Regina, arrives armed with a wicked glint and weapons-grade lipgloss, drawling her name as if she savours its taste. Her revenge belter Someone Gets Hurt, performed in the glow of the school photocopier as she disseminates her infamous Burn Book, is the high point of Finn Ross and Adam Young’s video design. Depth is given not to Cady but to Gretchen (Elèna Gyasi), whose despairing fragility makes her feel “like an iPhone without a case”, while Grace Mouat as the delightfully dim Karen perfects a dazed gait akin to Amanda Seyfried’s blankness in the role on screen.
The musical is framed as a cautionary tale and narrated not by Cady but her new art-freak friends Janis (Elena Skye) and Damian (Tom Xander) who quickly give away the ending. Skye and Xander make a charming double act – and Skye is superb singing the bird-flipping anthem I’d Rather Be Me.
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