Katie Yeomans, formerly the standby for the role of Cady Heron in the current tour of the Mean Girls musical, has stepped into the role full-time for the remainder of the 2024-2025 non-Equity tour.
Yeomans joins a cast that includes Maya Petropoulos as Regina George, Kristen Amanda Smith as Gretchen Wieners, MaryRose Brendel as Karen Smith, Alexys Morera as Janis Sarkisian, Joshua Morrisey as Damian Hubbard, José Raúl as Aaron Samuels, Kristen Seggio as Mrs. Heron/Ms. Norbury/Mrs. George, Tym Brown as Mr. Duvall, and Kabir Gandhi as Kevin G.
The North American tour, which launched in September 2023, is currently playing the Bank of American PAC Thousand Oaks in California through January 12.
The company also includes Megan Arseneau, Thalia Atallah, Gino Bloomberg, Armani Brown, Connor Buonaccorsi, Paloma D’Auria, Kayla Goins, Chase Graham, Madeline Kendall, Owen Kent Ing, Giulia Marolda, Tay Marquise, Brandon Moreno, Michael Mottram, Kevin Ivey Morrison, Emma X. O’Loughlin, Lucy Rhoades, Ariel Shani, and Jocelyn Darci Trimmer.
The musical comedy adapted from Tina Fey's 2004 Paramount Pictures film features a book by Fey, music by Jeff Richmond, and lyrics by Nell Benjamin. The musical made its world premiere in 2017 at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., and subsequently opened on Broadway in April 2018. Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon) directed and choreographed the original Broadway production, which was nominated for 12 2018 Tony Awards.
The musical follows Cady Heron, who grew up on an African savanna and moves to suburban Illinois, where she takes on The Plastics, a trio of frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George.
The tour, directed by Casey Hushion and choreographed by John MacInnis, is based on the original Broadway direction and choreography and also features set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Gregg Barnes, lighting design by Kenneth Posner, sound design by Brian Ronan, hair design by Josh Marquette, makeup design by Milagros Medina-Cerdeira, music supervision by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, vocal arrangements by Campbell, Richmond, and Natalie Tenenbaum, orchestrations by John Clancy, dance and incidental musical arrangements by Glen Kelly, music coordination by John Mezzio, and casting by The Telsey Office.
The production stage manager is Kathleen Carragee with assistant stage
manager Maris Keller; the company manager is Soldanela Rivera with
assistant company manager Taylor Parris. The tour music
director/conductor is Julius LaFlamme.
The Mean Girls tour is produced by NETworks Presentations.
Click here for the current itinerary.
Alexys Morera and company of Mean Girls
Ethan Jih-Cook and Alexys Morera in Mean Girls
Joseph Torres and Natalie Shaw in Mean Girls
Maryrose Brendel, Maya Petropoulos, Kristen Amanda Smith, and Natalie Shaw in Mean Girls
Maryrose Brendel and company of Mean Girls
Kristen Seggio and Natalie Shaw in Mean Girls
Natalie Shaw, Kristen Amanda Smith, Maya Petropoulos, and Maryrose Brendel in Mean Girls
Natalie Shaw, Kristen Amanda Smith, Maya Petropoulos, Maryrose Brendel, and Alexys Morera in Mean Girls
Kristen Amanda Smith, Maya Petropoulos, Maryrose Brendel, and Natalie Shaw in Mean Girls
Maya Petropoulos in Mean Girls
Natalie Shaw in Mean Girls
Maryrose Brendel, Maya Petropoulos, and Kristen Amanda Smith in Mean Girls
Natalie Shaw, Ethan Jih-Cook, Alexys Morera, and company of Mean Girls
Natalie Shaw in Mean Girls
