♪ That I can get it, watch this girl self educate ♪
♪ I learned math so I can learn love ♪
♪ You wanna bet it, that I can get it, just wait ♪
- Sike chickens, you didn't think
I would leave you without a final
Too Grool for School vlog, did you?
I'm yelling, it's too loud,
it's too loud on a Friday to be yelling.
Yeah, we got one more vlog,
one more goodbye, graduation vlog for all of you.
It'll be fun, won't be emotional, it'll be fun,
might be a little emotional, but mostly fun.
All together now.
♪ As we go on, we remember ♪
♪ All the times we had together ♪
♪ And as our lives change ♪ Any comments?
♪ Come whatever ♪
Stay tuned.
(chatter)
- We just had a snob celebrating what?
- [Both] The 20's!
- The 20's!
Olivia, what do you think about the snob tonight?
- I think it was wonderful.
The cast just came together, really just like--
(laughs)
- We have snobs on Saturday nights.
But tonight is a Sunday night, Sunday night on Broadway.
To being a snob, it was called you're in 20's,
to celebrate 2020 and the other things
that have to do with 2020, bye!
Hey team, so I've started cleaning up my dressing room.
Which is very, very sad.
And I'm finding some true gems.
But I think the biggest gem of all is
my original "Mean Girls" script
which I have not opened in maybe like a year and a half.
So, I thought maybe we could go through it
and see some of the things that got cut in previews.
This was at the top of act 1 when the parents came in.
And it was Binty, I don't wanna embarrass you
but we found this in your sleeping bag.
Did you make this?
He holds up a baboon skull on a stick
with straw attached to give it Justin Bieber like hair.
My line, no I mean, yes, but we're just friends.
What? Fine, I practice kissing on it, okay?
Because we live 200 miles from nearest town
and I am losing my mind!
Yep, that's right, Cady had a barbie doll
that she would practice kissing on.
And that got cut at the beginning of our show
because I think people thought
that's just a little weird. (laughs)
She is weird, but she's not like,
disturbed kissing barbies weird.
♪ I'm growing up but you treat me like a child ♪
♪ If I don't socialize I will go wild ♪
♪ I am on my knees, send me to real school please ♪
♪ I fear I'll go totally feral ♪
♪ And start to pee on trees ♪
To pee on trees, friends!
Cady started the show really weird. (laughs)
that all got cut, I sang that for one night.
I sang that for one night on Broadway.
So, if you were in the audience that night
comment in the section because you saw something
that was never seen again on Broadway.
But that's what happens in previews, it's really fun.
You like go on stage and you just think
well, they don't know what's gonna come outta my mouth.
All right, this is what Stupid with Love use to be.
Or it was on February 4, 2018.
So, literally like almost two years ago.
♪ On the day you made me cry ♪
♪ Mom started teaching me to add and multiply ♪
♪ And that was healing ♪
♪ 'Cause there was logic to rely on ♪
♪ There were rules not like a guy who just goes flying ♪
♪ And leaves you shy in feelings ♪
♪ Stupid with love ♪
That's an E? Jesus.
Why are we singing so high?
Oh my god, this makes me so happy.
Here is what use to be the finale to our show
and it was this song called "Break it Down"
And we moved into the theater with this song
and we opened for previews, this was not the song we had.
So, we learned Stars in like,
I don't know, maybe a day.
Break it Down, basically went
♪ This crown ♪
♪ Is plastic pretending to be platinum ♪
♪ It's like me, I was so dumb ♪
Mr. Duvall talks, and then the base would kick in.
(makes bass drumming sound)
♪ This crown ♪
♪ See this is the problem ♪
♪ How we compete and compare ♪
♪ For what ♪
♪ Shiny thing for your hair ♪
♪ There, share it ♪
♪ Who cares if you're perfect ♪
♪ If all that perfection is fake and cheap ♪
Can you read it with me?
♪ And easy to break ♪
♪ Look how easy to break ♪
♪ You want it, take it ♪
♪ Everyone take ♪
♪ Get up and break it down ♪
I'm gonna rock out to this song.
I love that song so much.
It was just not the right song to end the show.
It is a great, great song.
Jeff and Nell, it's one of my favorite things you ever wrote.
But, it was just a little too,
a little too rock anthem for like the end of the show.
Especially because we had already had
the rock anthem of "I'd Rather Be Me"
So, we brought back the beautiful stars theme.
And it's hard to say goodbye to songs
that you really like in the moment.
But, eventually you do it in front of an audience
and you're like, right, that makes sense.
And I personally love the metaphor, the Stars metaphor
that comes back and that theme.
That musical theme that comes back for Cady.
And as much as I loved "Break it Down"
and the fierce dance break we all got to do together,
it was not the song to end the show.
Truly, finding this brought back so many memories
of how much work and collaboration
and adaptation had to go into
making the show come to life.
And that's the stuff that nobody sees.
Because when people buy tickets
they're coming to see a finished product.
So, it's really cool to sort of revisit that.
And revisit some of these old lines
and old barracks, and old notes I use to write to myself
on the script pages and be like,
right at one point this was still being created.
And right now, it feels like such a set thing.
It feels so comfortable and like
we've been doing it for years.
But at one point, walking out on that stage every night
was a thrilling and terrifying
and new experience every single evening.
And as much as that preview process
nearly breaks everybody,
I think it might have been one of my favorite
moments of this show or favorite phases of this show.
Because it was just, it required everybody to just be
so focused and so fearless.
And I loved watching our cast
and our creators rise to the occasion.
So, that's all, I love you Mean Girls, good bye.
I'm not gonna cry on this vlog.
This is gonna be, you're gonna have a session.
We're gonna have little cut aways to you.
It's gonna be Renee explains Gen Z.
- I love that.
- [Erika] Okay, the word for today is, you can choose it.
- I think the word for today should be--
I feel like slaps is a little advanced.
We're gonna start, we're gonna start low.
Let's start with like,
like thriving.
- Please use thriving in a sentence.
- Today I am not thriving, I'm surviving.
But maybe tomorrow, we'll be thriving.
Erika looks like she's thriving.
- This has been Gen Z with Renee MJ Rapp.
- Hello Erika.
We miss you, we know you're on your last few shows
at Mean Girls, and just wondering how you're feeling?
Like, just hoping you can elucidate on your--
feelings, I know it was super didactic
and enervating for me and I was so excited
to shoe from wearing make-up.
That wasn't a sneeze, that was a really big word.
Boom, boom. Louderman lingo!
- Gianna, why is today a special day?
- Because I'm Janis for the matinee.
- And is it maybe our last time?
How dare I?
- Why would you just do that?
- But you know what else is happening
that's more fun than thinking about that?
Come outside, go outside, c'mon.
Hey everybody.
Hi everybody.
- I'm really subdued in this version.
- Really, she's getting into character.
This is Gianna as Janis, friends.
All right, go outside.
What's happening outside?
- Wait, is there something they got up? (gasps)
(laughs)
♪ It's a snow day ♪
♪ It's a snow day on Mean Girls ♪
- Into the woods, it's time to go.
I hate to leave, I have to know.
- Hi, kids.
- [Erika] Mama, what.
Mama, these are my girlfriends.
We're talking about-- who's that?
(laughs)
- Wow this cast shows up when the camera come out.
- So, you know when you've been running
for two and a half years,
you sometimes have rehearsal because
you start to do things a little differently on stage
and we have started to do weird things
in the Spring Fling photo.
So, fun surprise, whole cast on stage in normal clothes.
Kind of normal clothes.
- We're at the club, Erika.
- [Erika] Are we at the club?
Is this the Spring Fling club?
(chatter)
- [Photographer] Three, two, one, yay!
♪ I see stars ♪
(chatter)
- Okay friends, so today a very--
how do I get you, there you are.
A very special thing happened on Mean Girls
on Broadway today because we--
- Re-coop!
- Re-cooping means that you make back
the investment it took to make the show.
It takes so many thousands of millions of dollars
to make a Broadway show.
- And it's so special when a show re-coops.
- It's very special, it means a lot of fun things.
But importantly, it's like cool.
All of that work is going to like literally pay off.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
It was very exciting.
- Let's go-- - have cupcakes.
- Downstairs and have cupcakes.
- Yeah!
Okay friends, so we just finished show eight.
My hair looks crazy pin curled.
So I am heading home for my day off.
And I brought with me this entire bag
of fan mail that I am going to open and respond to.
- Erika, stop talking!
- Gray, I'm trying to tell the fans
that I'm answering their fan mail on my day off.
(water bubbles)
(sings)
Normally, on my walk to the subway
I would be like jammin' out to some tunes
but I have you all with me today, so we're not gonna jam.
We're gonna answer some questions that people asked.
One of the questions was
what are you gonna miss the most about playing Cady Heron?
And the answer to that is I'm gonna miss the people the most
'cause I'm kinda ready to not do the show anymore,
but I'm very sad to be saying goodbye
to all of my family and friends who are in that building.
I'm not ready to let go of them yet.
There's a dog, there's a dog, there's a dog.
Adult see-saws, what is this?
I'm by myself so I have nobody to go on with.
But maybe I should ask around.
Look at how much fun they're having.
That is amazing.
We have transformed to Cady.
I'm ready for Show two.
Have a good show, show two, show two, show two.
Here we go.
Let's check in with with our ensemble.
See how they're doing.
See how everyone's holding up.
Hi, Margie Ann, hello.
Hi, all.
Okay. (laughs)
Iain, who you on for the night?
- I'm on for Tyler Kimble.
- Tyler Kimble, I'm showing them a day in a two show day.
You know what's funny, is our first vlogs
had a lot of energy on a two show day.
Two years later--
- We still here.
(laughs)
- [Erika] It's not that we don't have energy,
is that we're saving it for out there.
- Yeah, conserving.
Save it. (crosstalk)
- [Erika] Oh my God, is this choir club?
Is this choir club?
- [Man] It's choir club.
- [Erika] Five, six, seven, eight.
♪ Hello from the other side ♪
♪ Must've called a 1,000 times ♪
♪ To tell you ♪
♪ I'm sorry ♪
♪ With everything that I've done ♪
♪ And it clearly ♪
♪ Doesn't tear you apart anymore ♪
anymore ♪
(Graduation from Vitamin C plays)
♪ Stupid with love ♪
♪ And I can get it ♪
♪ Watch this girl self educate ♪
♪ I learned math so I can learn love ♪
♪ You wanna bet it, that I can ♪