Tina Fey Touts Upper Darby-Based Mean Girls Musical in 2019 Philly Visit

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Photo of Upper Darby native Tina Fey courtesy of Wikipedia.

Tina Fey stopped at the Kimmel Center recently to talk about her “Mean Girls” musical coming to Philadelphia Nov. 19, writes Neal Zoren for the Daily Times.

After achieving a movie triumph in 2004’s “Mean Girls,” she rode the same vehicle, with music by her husband, Jeff Richmond, and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, to Broadway prominence in 2017.

The musical version will be in Philadelphia through Dec. 1.

Fey set up an interview/conversation with one of her closest friends from Upper Darby, Damian Holbrook, a writer for TV Guide Magazine.

“Mean Girls” has its roots in Upper Darby. The long-time friends, she from Upper Darby High School, he from next door at Monsignor Bonner, reminisced in a way that showed their teen years in Delco formed the nucleus for the movie and the musical.

She also remembered the value of Summer Stage.

“Parents would drop their kids off at 9:30 and leave them there all day, after it got dark, to work on plays and musicals. None of them ever thought to look in to see what we were doing. And I think the whole thing cost $30 for the entire summer!” Fey said.

Read more about Tina Fey’s appearance here.

Editor’s Note: This post first appeared Aug. 31,, 2019.

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