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January 12, 2024
At the Movies: Trying to make ‘fetch' happen, in song: ‘Mean Girls' gets a musical update
By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
AP National Writer
Angourie Rice is the new Cady, the Lindsay Lohan role, a home-schooled math whiz who arrives in suburban Chicago straight from Kenya, where her mother was doing zoological research, into the snake pit of high school.
The first “Mean Girls,” that compulsively watchable high-school based social satire by Tina Fey, came out in 2004. The Broadway musical opened in 2018. Now it's 2024, and we have a screen adaptation of the theater adaptation. How long will this reconfiguring go on? Is there a limit?
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