SOMERS, N.Y. - That’s so fetch!
Somers High School staged “Mean Girls: The Musical” last weekend to great acclaim.
Prior to the curtain going up, the talented young performers were treated to words of encouragement from the play’s creator, Tina Fey.
Fey sent the Somers cast a video to say:
“Hey everybody at Somers High School. This is Tina Fey. How are you? I hear you are doing ‘Mean Girls: The Musical’ and I just wanted to say, first of all, thank you for it, and secondly, I hope you have so much fun. I hope you’ve all found your ya ya ya and are ready to use them. And I know you guys are going to kill it. You’re going to kill it! Break a leg!
The actress, comedian, writer, and producer also signed posters of the play that were raffled off at the three performances.
It was S.T.A.R.S. (Somers Tuskers Arts Rising Stars) that made that happen.
The booster club raises money for equipment and other things not included in the performing arts budget, student scholarships, and to help defray program costs.
Its members are parents of students who are in school orchestras, choruses, drama clubs, and bands etc.
One of those reached out to Fey this past winter and asked her to sign the posters and make the video.
Fey based her screenplay for the 2004 movie adaptation on Rosalind Wiseman’s book “Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boys, and the New Realities of Girl World.”
The comedy (in which Fey also acted) morphed into “Mean Girls: The Musical,” a Broadway smash. A movie version of the musical was released last year.
It tells the story of Cady Heron, a teen educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the ‘burbs in Illinois, she is enrolled in a public high school where she is quickly schooled on the merciless laws of popularity. (The high school version was licensed in 2022.)
FYI, raise your “ya ya ya” – instead of “raise your right finger” from the song “I’d Rather Be Me”-- was a viral TikTok trend that sprung from a vocal exercise used in the musical adaptation of “Mean Girls.”
The phrase became a shorthand for “bring your A-game.”
And based on the delighted reaction of the audience in Somers, these singers, dancers, and actors most certainly did.
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