Initial casting announced for Mean Girls UK & Ireland Tour
Plus full tour dates confirmed... on Mean Girls Day, so fetch!
The producers Lorne Michaels, Crossroads Live and Sonia Friedman Productions are delighted to announce today, on 3 October - also known as Mean Girls Day - initial casting and full tour dates for the 2026/2027 UK and Ireland tour of the award-winning Mean Girls The Musical.
The tour will star Emily Lane as Cady Heron, with Vivian Panka as Regina George, Sophie Pourret as Karen Smith, Georgie Buckland as Janis Sarkisian. They will be joined by Max Gill as Damian Hubbard, Karim Zeroual as Kevin Ganatra and Joshua Elmore as Mr Duvall. Further casting is to be announced.
The tour will open at Manchester Opera House on 23 February 2026 before touring to venues across the UK and Ireland until the end of January 2027. In addition to the previously announced venues, the tour will also visit Stoke, Eastbourne, Woking, Leicester, Aberdeen, Canterbury, Norwich, Nottingham, Sheffield, Wimbledon, Birmingham, Oxford and Southampton.
From the Director of Mean Girls:
The WhatsOnStage award-winning, smash hit musical comedy, first premiered in 2017 at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C ahead of a Broadway run from April 2018 at the August Wilson Theatre, is based on the iconic Paramount Pictures film of the same name. The West End production, seen by over 330,000 people, concluded its run at the Savoy Theatre in June 2025.
Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, it has a book by Tina Fey, music and vocal arrangements by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, scenic design by Scott Pask, costume design by Katrina Lindsay, lighting design by Kenneth Posner, sound design by Brian Ronan, hair design by Josh Marquette, musical supervision/vocal, dance, incidental and additional music arrangements by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, orchestrations by John Clancy and dance and incidental music arrangements by Glen Kelly.
Tickets are on sale now via the production website - book for ATG venues here or using the link below.