{"id":324949,"date":"2026-11-10T17:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324949\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T17:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T17:48:06","slug":"liva-arts-company-presents-mean-girls-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/324949\/","title":{"rendered":"Liva Arts Company Presents \u2018Mean Girls: The Musical&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liva Arts Company will present \u201cMean Girls\u201d Nov. 19-21 in the Royal Theater of the McDade Center for the Literary and Performing Arts.\u00a0Performances will be Thursday, Nov. 19, and Friday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m.; and Saturday, Nov. 21, at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMean Girls,\u201d book by Tina Fey, lyrics by Nell Benjamin and music by Jeff Richmond, is a musical adaptation of the 2004 film by the same name.<\/p>\n<p>The musical follows teen Cady Heron (Delaney Bartram &#8217;27), who after years of being homeschooled by her parents in Africa, transfers to North Shore High in suburban Illinois. She befriends the school\u2019s outcasts, Janis Sarkisan (Searra VanDerveer &#8217;27) and Damian Hubbard (Connor Farrington &#8217;27), and they convince her to spy on \u201cThe Plastics,\u201d the popular girl clique led by Regina George (Maddie Heinimann &#8217;28), Gretchen Wieners (Emma Nicholas &#8217;28) and Karen Smith (Kimberly Lane &#8217;28).<\/p>\n<p>As Cady becomes more entrenched in the clique, she begins to adopt its toxic behavior and lose sight of herself. In an attempt to destroy Regina, her efforts force her to confront the mean girl she is becoming.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are free for undergraduate students and $5 for all other attendees. To reserve tickets, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/livaartscompany.ludus.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/livaartscompany.ludus.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/news.scranton.edu\/articles\/2026\/11\/mailto:livaartscompany@gmail.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">livaartscompany@gmail.com<\/a> with any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liva Arts Company will present \u201cMean Girls\u201d Nov. 19-21 in the Royal Theater of the McDade Center for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[131624,45440,178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-324949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-liva-arts-company","tag-mean-girls","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}