Musical Composer Jeff Richmond Wants To Attract A Wider Audience With Mean Girls Musical Film Adaptation

Musical composer Jeff Richmond has recently revealed a new development on the forthcoming musical film adaptation of Mean Girls. In Richmond’s interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he detailed how he’s working day-to-day with his wife, Tina Fey, to reinvent the musical for the big screen. The pair is teaming up to produce the film to give it a “fresher palette.”

Before the film’s release, Mean Girls Musical is having a national tour and bringing the classic movie to life on the Pantages stage since the start of this month. The musical is headed by Jeff Richmond, and it’s a dream come true for the composer since he’s been wanting to adapt the film to the musical for years. As the musical is ending, Richmond and the gang are now busy preparing for the film adaptation.

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The composer revealed to The Hollywood Reporter, “Tina and I had always talked about trying to do a musical for years. [Mean Girls] seemed like people had interest and were asking about it, asking us if we were ever interested in doing a musical. Because we’re so close to Lorne, and he’s the one who would have to give us the rights to it, we just said, ‘Let’s just shoot for this.’ And by gosh, we are able to get the rights to the movie that Tina wrote.”

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Jeff Richmond Hopes the Songs They Made Will Reach a Wider Audience

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The Mean Girls Musical film is set to be produced by Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey, as the script for the film is written by Tina Fey herself, with music made by Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin. The team is working hard to adapt the musical to film, and Jeff was hoping that the songs they made would attract a larger market.

The composer said, “Right now, the day-to-day is more about the movie adaptation that we’re working on. We’re super involved with that. What we’re trying to do [with the movie] is take the score that sounds like a Broadway score — in a good way — and [give] the movie a fresher palette. To make it sound more like stuff you want to listen to on Spotify, as opposed to when you’re sitting eighth row at a Broadway show or the Pantages. It’s kind of making it a fresher, younger take on the whole thing. We’re kind of reinvented the music for the movie, so it’s really fun.”