Mean Girls is having a moment. The Tina Fey–penned film that brought “that’s so fetch” into the popular vernacular back in 2004, that became a Broadway musical in 2018, and a movie musical in 2024, is also a Broadway touring company that’s making its way to the Granada January 8-9, 2025.
I spoke to José Raúl, who plays the role of Aaron Samuels, on the phone last week. He says audiences should, “prepare to have a good time and to laugh out loud.” The story follows the adventures of Cady Heron, who grew up on a savanna in Africa and lands in a high school in suburban Illinois full of even more vicious animals than she ever experienced in the wild — the clique of mean girls.
“So we see a girl apply the survival tactics of the of Sub-Saharan Africa to suburban Chicago, and you're going to see her really, get, really get kind of shocked as she experiences a major culture shock by the animalistic nature of being a teenage girl in an American high school,” says Raúl.