ON WEDNESDAYS WE WEAR PINK

The Plastics are coming to Brum. Mean Girls The Musical lands at The Alexandra on Monday, December 14 and sticks around until Saturday, January 2. If you’re after a Christmas theatre trip with fewer elves and considerably more psychological warfare, congratulations. You’ve found it.

Tina Fey’s musical sends previously homeschooled Cady Heron (Emily Lane) into North Shore High, where Regina George (Vivian Panka) runs the place with Gretchen and Karen at her side. Cady reckons growing up with zoologist parents has taught her a thing or two about survival of the fittest. Then she eats lunch with The Plastics. Her plan to topple Regina goes about as smoothly as you’d expect from someone trying to stage a coup in a school cafeteria.

Jennifer Ellison, who went from Brookside to playing Roxie Hart in Chicago in the West End, joins the Birmingham run in three roles. She’s Cady’s mum, maths teacher Ms Norbury and, most gloriously, Regina’s mum Mrs George. That’s quite a shift.

The show won Best New Musical at the 2025 WhatsOnStage Awards. If your December diary still has a gap, get the gang together. Whether you let them sit with you is entirely your business. Book