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    'Mean Girls' was a movie before Twitter even existed. How did creators update it to be a modern musical?

    by Erika Milvy, Los Angeles Times May 03, 2018 4 minutes

    Who knew you could make a Tony-nominated musical from a self-help book for parents?

    Tina Fey, that's who.

    "Mean Girls" picked up a leading 12 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday, including one for best musical and another for Fey's book, which adapts her 2004 movie for the stage. But as "Mean Girls" devotees might recall, the musical's root actually go deeper - to Fey's original inspiration, Rosalind Wiseman's 2003 nonfiction book, "Queen Bees and Wannabees."

    "Queen Bees" presented a dismaying picture of teen tyrants and friendships poisoned by social hierarchies and stealth competition. For Fey, the book's depiction of tears and anguish caused by ostracism and frenemy treachery somehow screamed "hit comedy."

    And then it screamed Broadway musical. With

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