Mean Girls/Legally Blonde/Heathers (with Jeffrey Scott Parsons)

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Omigod you guys, in this episode, we’re joined by Jeff Parsons of A Musical Theatre Podcast to shine a light on musicals of Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe (and Kevin Murphy and Jeff Richmond)! We’re talking Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, and Heathers because more is better, so take a listen and see if they’re so much better than the original movies.

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Listen to A Musical Theatre Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and check out the Heathers episode with original cast member Rachel Flynn, and you can also hear us discuss My Fair Lady.

Hear Barrett Wilbert Weed and Jeff Richmond discuss the lyrics to I’d Rather Be Me.

Check out the Apex Predator performance on the Today Show to just watch The Plastics strut their way around Rockefeller Plaza.

Listen to different performances of the ending of So Much Better.

Watch Laura Bell Bundy keep going after kicking off a shoe during So Much Better.

If you want to hear more about the process of turning Legally Blonde into a musical (including the shoe incident), you can listen to the creators talk about it on the Broadway Backstory podcast.

You’re Welcome originally replaced Blue in the high school version of Heathers before displacing it completely in all productions, and you can hear about some of the other changes that Lawrence O’Keefe and Kevin Murphy made for the high school version.

Watch Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get ready for her day and talk about the importance of femininity and self-appreciation.

You can read some of the behind-the-scenes info for each song in both Mean Girls and Heathers.

Listen to the cast albums!

• Mean Girls: Apple Music / Spotify
• Legally Blonde: Apple Music / Spotify
• Heathers (Original Off-Broadway): Apple Music / Spotify
• Heathers (West End): Apple Music / Spotify

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