The first trailer for the Mean Girls musical movie has been released, and it features all of the greats: Regina George, Aaron Samuels, Gretchen Weiners, etc.
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To be honest, I didn't know it was all of the same characters in the musical version.
Because this is what we do here, let's look at how different the musical cast looks compared to the original movie cast...
Let's start with the musical version of Aaron Samuels.
The musical version of Aaron Samuels is played by Christopher Briney:
And here's the movie version of Aaron Samuels as played by Jonathan Bennett:
Next up, we have the musical version of Regina George.
Regina is played by Reneé Rapp.
Here's Regina George in the musical:
And here's the original Regina George as played by Rachel McAdams:
The musical version:
The original movie version:
Next up, we have the musical version of Gretchen Weiners.
Bebe Wood plays the musical version of Gretchen Weiners:
And here's the original movie version as played by Lacey Chabert:
Now for the musical version of Karen Smith, Karen Shetty:
Avantika Vandanapu plays the musical version of Karen:
And Amanda Seyfried played the original movie version of Karen:
Now for the musical version of Damian.
Jaquel Spivey plays the musical version of Damian:
And Daniel Franzese played the original movie version of Damian:
Let's talk about the musical version of Cady Herron.
The musical version is played by Angourie Rice.
Here's the musical version of Cady:
And here's the original movie version as played by Lindsay Lohan:
The musical version:
The original movie version:
The musical version:
The original movie version:
Let's look at the musical version of Janis Ian, Janis ‘Imi’ike:
The musical version of Janis Ian is played by Auli’i Cravalho:
And here's the original movie version as played by Lizzy Caplan:
Tina Fey reprises her role as Mrs. Norbury in the musical:
And here's what she looked like in the original movie:
Tim Meadows also reprises his role as Mr. Ron Duvall:
And here's what he looked like in the original movie:
Next up is the musical version of Cady's mom, as played by Jenna Fischer:
And here's the original movie version as played by Ana Gasteyer.
The movie version of Coach Carr is played by John Hamm:
And the original movie version was played by Dwayne Hill:
Lastly, we have the musical version of Regina's mom as played by Busy Philipps.
And here's the original movie version as played by Amy Poehler.
