Mean Girls Ambassador Blog

By Piper

Mean Girls is a fabulous show about being yourself and giving everyone room to be themselves. It follows Cady Heron, a teenage girl transitioning from being a homeschooler in Africa to a student in an American High School. As she gets deeper and deeper into what was meant to be a funny joke, it backfires, and she ends up learning a valuable lesson.

While Cady herself changes, the animal references such as calling Regina the Apex Predator and the actors turning into animals is a constant reference to her original life and perspective in Africa. I thought this was interesting because no matter how much someone adapts, they still hold a remnant of who they were. It also shows how Cady didn’t want to let go of who she was before meeting the Plastics. I like how they called Regina the Apex Predator, but I think the actors turning into animals could have been pulled off better.

The infamous “Rocking Around the Christmas Tree” scene had changes to it from the movie. It was changed to “Rocking Around the Pole” and included a skirt falling off instead of a speaker being kicked into the audience. I was disappointed we didn’t get an acapella version of the Christmas song, but the liberties taken added an element of surprise and still made the audience laugh. One of the most energetic and fun scenes in the show was during the song “Whose House is This?”. The lights in the background added an extra effect and made the party look even busier and crazier. Although I was having fun watching it I was also nervous and disappointed because I knew what came next. For Cady, this was the beginning of the lesson she learned and the start of her biggest conflict. A third scene I also loved was “World Burn” which Regina sung. This was Regina’s revenge song, and the song did its job to make me dislike her more. Regina appeared as the perfect villain for a high school, calculating, petty and pretty. The scene was pulled off with the right amount of energy and I could tell how much work the actress playing Regina put into it.

I would totally recommend seeing Mean Girls at least once. It was a great show that evokes plethora of emotions as you follow the protagonist and her friends as they balance the many dramas of high school.