what do you do when you already have
nine Emmys well you try to snag a few
toes yeah and for Tina Fey that could
happen because her new Broadway show
Mean Girls was just nominated for 12
Tony Awards wait 12 12 it's unbelievable
including Best Musical and Best Book of
a musical yes the show is a stage
adaptation of the hit 2004 movie Mean
Girls which by the way Tina also knows
getting old one thing and I just keep
writing it hardly hard congratulations
are in order that is a huge
accomplishment thank you you die mean
you know how lawyers it takes and ya
know yeah you did it in five though
which i think is a short amount of time
it doesn't seem like it cuz you're you
know but it's actually here that five is
actually not that long five years from
start to being on stage okay so this is
obviously it's your baby something
you've cared for and nurtured and then
you were bringing it to Broadway
were you able to like keep in most of
the stuff is it sort of like isn't just
like the movie or how we know we knew we
had a sort of a tricky task and that we
wanted people who were fans of the movie
to feel like they got what they wanted
yes but we also wanted it to feel like
more than the movie because the movies
on cable like right now you don't want
to pay all this money and we wanted
people who had never seen the movie to
still enjoy it so we we worked hard and
I think we've told it obviously it did
and apparently you know I mean times
have changed and so technology's changed
and and our culture's change and you had
to adapt to that I would think yeah you
know in the movie Regina has a flip
phone or something it's a 2004 I just
got rid of mine okay what I think
they're gonna come back I think they're
gonna come back in like an ironic way
but yeah we had to include social media
and a lot of people were like well you
have to have it be all about social
media and and and I was like well it is
about the humans doing this to each
other so it people use social media but
at the same time it's actually I had a
group of teenage girls come in like a
focus group you're in the early stages
yeah
and one of them said to me an solicit
she said like please don't think you
have to put a bunch of social media in
it for us to get it like we live it we
get grateful it's really hot yeah
because you want that you want the story
to be the thing this is not that
dramatic you've gotten lots of awards
and nominations for things now in the in
this world getting Tony nominations 12
of them like what just how impactful was
that for someone is we hear you cried I
did I cried at the gym which I keep
saying cuz I'm trying to get two free
months it's a gym yeah I didn't really
you know we all we all start doing like
high school plays and community theater
our town because you know especially
when I grew up there was no YouTube
right we weren't he wasn't about cameras
it was about trying to D in plays and so
yeah I didn't realize how much it meant
to me until I cried at the gym and also
felt like I didn't know I said I was
must have been walking around like this
for you know mines and I was like okay
and also the fact that your husband's
and yeah did it's a blade labor of love
for the two of you yeah businessman Jeff
Richmond wrote the score with the
lyricist named mail Benjamin and yeah
it's great I'm beyond excited for him as
well you will we ever see like a Tina
Fey cameo and this at some point you
think if ticket sales really dipped no
my friend Kerry Butler she's fantastic
way legends vana do she do original cast
of hairspray and she and I effects your
friends a long time just from her mom
friends from the neighborhood and she
plays she's there she plays mrs. George
and she plays she plays me and Amy
Poehler and on a gas tire people aren't
even realizing this you're right most
people don't realize it's her all three
yeah Wow very very talented people are
so happy because guess who's coming back
to SNL May 19th and you should wait a
minute that's the that's the royal
wedding day yes something right she
could have some weird American relatives
yes already thinking about you do you
see a butterfly when you go on the stage
at SNL the biggest thing that makes me
the estimate makes me the most nervous
is walking out for the monologue so just
to not fall oh I should cut together a
montage
I have almost fallen like three times
like because I are there always in a
giant heel which can too and yeah it's
that walk down the stairs through the
band and wants them over that then it's
fine and you're good Richards from
wardrobe
let me know or you know Donnie carries
in for place to place here does she sure
does we're so happy over the movie
they're not putting us in your wine
movie me and I'll do what I can
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