15. Fay is famous for never considering writing a sequel to a hit movie. “At the time, we wanted to start a conversation about a sequel. For some reason, I was like, ‘No!!! We shouldn’t do that!” ” she told EW in 2014. But now, no – it’s too late now. ”
But as she told Variety in 2018, “Maybe that’s good because it saves all the energy for this.”
This is an average girl musical she wrote alongside her husband and 30 rock composer Jeff Richmond, which premiered in 2017 before it opened on Broadway in April 2017. It was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and nine Drama Desk Awards that year, and won the award for outstanding musical books in the latter, and was awarded as an inspiration for the Girls’ musical of 2024.
And while there were no sequels made to date, there was a film in which the “sequel” to The Made-for-TV aired on the ABC Family (now Freeform) in 2011, which had a Moniker role, with the exception of Tim Meadows’ recreating his role as the school’s principal, and had nothing to do with the original film. It was not well received.
In 2024, Mean Girls, a musical adaptation of a film, was released. Angory Rice is a caddy Rene Rapp recreated his role as Regina. Other cast members include Bebe Wood (Gretchen) Avantika (Karen), Jaquel Spivey (Damian), Auli’i Cravalho (Janis) and Christopher Briney (Aaron).
