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Why Paramount Didn’t Market ‘Mean Girls’ as a Musical: ‘People Tend to Treat’ Them ‘Differently’ (variety.com)
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[–] GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

This movie is not going to go well, regardless of marketing it as a musical or not.

My daughter is a total theatre kid, and a Mean Girls fan, so has actually been looking forward to this. However now the songs are coming out, they’ve changed them all compared to the actual musical. For the stage musical the songs are rock music, with heavily distorted guitars etc. But the songs that are being released from the movie are bad auto-tuned pop covers of those songs. She’s furious, and is unlikely to go see it now, even though she’s totally the target audience.