Erika Henningsen, the star of Broadway's MeanGirls talks about taking on Lindsay Lohan's iconic role:
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the Broadway musical, which opened on Sunday night. For one, social media exists, and with it, plenty of viral and vicious Tweets that make the Burn Book look like child’s play . Aaron Samuels is now referred to as “bae,” and there are more than a few allusions to a certain reality star turned President of the United States. And, perhaps most obviously, there is noInstead, the 25-year-old Broadway star Erika Henningsen is taking on the role of Cady Heron.
“One of the first things they said was, ‘You are not Lindsay Lohan. We do not expect you to be Lindsay Lohan,’” Henningsen said. “When you read the script, it’s not the same Cady. Part of that is, in the movie, she acts as the lens through which we see everything. Seeing things through a character’s eyes is easier to do in film. In a musical, the leading character really has to jump off the stage. She has to carry the story in a way that is more active.
Henningsen plays Cady with wide-eyed sincerity, more open and goofy than the movie’s version. She’s the affable straight woman to the cast of larger-than-life characters who buzz around her: a jazz hands–ing Damien; the cruel and aloofNew York TimesBorn and raised in California, Henningsen, the youngest of three girls, was on stage at an early age. “My grandma showed me a bunch of musicals, and we’d watchall the time,” she said.
Upon graduating from the University of Michigan’s theater program, Henningsen headed straight to New York to begin auditioning. “It was never a decision; I just knew I wanted to be here,” she said. Among her first gigs were a concert production ofat Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic, and the world premiere of Sheryl Crow’s musical“Constant rejection became a thing that was just inevitable,” Henningsen said of the cycle of auditions.
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