WhatsOnTour – Mean Girls star Georgie Buckland launches our new video series

Welcome to WhatsOnTour – our brand new series here at WhatsOnStage, where we’re hitting the road with some of the nation’s most popular touring productions.

Kicking things off we have The Devil Wears Prada alum Georgie Buckland, who is currently appearing as Janis Sarkisian in the UK and Ireland tour of Mean Girls.

Filmed during the musical’s recent stop in Llandudno in northern Wales, go behind-the-scenes at Venue Cymru with Buckland, discover Mean Girls secrets and experience what life on the road is like for a performer. In the video, Buckland shares intimate stories with us and backstage banter with her castmates.

Check out our inaugural episode of WhatsOnTour below:

Based on the 2004 Paramount Pictures film, Mean Girls follows Cady Heron as she attempts to navigate the social politics of North Shore High and disrupt the rule of the so-called “Plastics”.

Starring alongside Buckland in the tour are Emily Lane as Cady Heron, Vivian Panka as Regina George, Sophie Pourret as Karen Smith, Faye Tozer as Ms Heron/Ms Norbury/Mrs George, Kiara Dario as Gretchen Wieners, Max Gill as Damian Hubbard, Karim Zeroual as Kevin Ganatra and Joshua Elmore as Mr Duvall, with Ben Oatley as Aaron Samuels.

Mean Girls features a book by Tina Fey, music by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, and direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw. The show’s design team credits include Scott Pask (set), Katrina Lindsay (costume), Kenneth Posner (lighting), Brian Ronan (sound), and Josh Marquette (hair), with musical supervision and arrangements by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, orchestrations by John Clancy and additional arrangements by Glen Kelly. A tour casting director has not been specified.

Mean Girls premiered in 2017 at the National Theatre in Washington, DC, before transferring to Broadway in 2018. It completed two national tours in the US and ran in the West End from June 2024 to June 2025, where it was seen by over 330,000 people. It won Best New Musical at the 25th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards.

The tour is produced by Lorne Michaels, Crossroads Live and Sonia Friedman Productions, with tickets for dates through to 30 January 2027 on sale below.