Hit West End musical Mean Girls will start UK tour in Manchester - full list of dates
The hit musical is heading out on tour
The hit West End musical Mean Girls is heading on a full UK and Ireland tour in 2026 that will start here in Manchester. The award-winning show brings the story of the iconic 2004 Mean Girls movie to life on the stage in an all-singing and dancing extravaganza.
Producers Lorne Michaels, Crossroads Live and Sonia Friedman Productions have today announced further details of the new tour which will open at Manchester Opera House on 23 February 2026.
It will then head out to venues across the UK and Ireland including Blackpool's Winter Gardens, Liverpool Empire,Sunderland Empire and Newcastle's Theatre Royal, running through until the end of January 2027.
Dates have been announced today, with news of the "on sale" dates to buy tickets expected to be announced soon.
The show follows "The Plastics" - Regina, Gretchen and Karen who rule North Shore High and will burn anyone who gets in their way.
Home-schooled Cady Heron, the character famously played by Lindsay Lohan in the movie, may think she knows a thing or two about survival of the fittest thanks to her zoologist parents, but high school is a whole new level of savage.
When Cady devises a plan to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a queen bee without getting stung. Theatre-goers are told to "expect iconic characters, razor-sharp wit, and killer songs" in the show.
Mean Girls the musical had its first West End performance at the Savoy Theatre on 5 June 2024, where it was seen by over 330,000 people and played until 8 June 2025. It took home the coveted ‘Best New Musical’ award at the 2025 WhatsOnStage Awards.
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The musical has a book by Tina Fey, music and vocal arrangements by Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin, direction and choreography by Casey Nicholaw, scenic design by Scott Pask, costume design by Katrina Lindsay, lighting design by Kenneth Posner, sound design by Brian Ronan, hair design by Josh Marquette, musical supervision/vocal, dance, incidental and additional music arrangements by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, orchestrations by John Clancy and dance and incidental music arrangements by Glen Kelly.
Mean Girls UK tour dates
- Manchester Opera House: Monday 23 February – Saturday 7 March 2026
- Cardiff Wales Millennium Centre: Tuesday 10 – Saturday 14 March 2026
- Sunderland Empire: Monday 6 – Saturday 11 April 2026
- Milton Keynes Theatre: Tuesday 14 – Saturday 18 April 2026
- Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham: Tuesday 19 – Saturday 23 May 2026
- Hull New Theatre: Monday 25 – Saturday 30 May 2026
- Bournemouth Pavillion: Monday 1 – Saturday 6 June 2026
- Grand Opera House, Belfast: Tuesday 9 June – Saturday 20 June 2026
- Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton: Tuesday 23 – Saturday 27 June 2026
- The King’s Theatre, Glasgow: Monday 29 June – Saturday 11 July 2026
- Venue Cymru, Llandudno: Monday 20 – Saturday 25 July 2026
- Cliff’s Pavillion, Southend: Tuesday 28 July – Saturday 1 August 2026
- Blackpool Winter Gardens: Tuesday 18 – Saturday 22 August 2026
- Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin: Tuesday 25 August – Saturday 5 September 2026
- Bristol Hippodrome: Tuesday 8 – Saturday 12 September 2026
- The Hawth Crawley: Monday 28 September – Saturday 3 October 2026
- Alhambra Theatre, Bradford: Monday 5 – Saturday 10 October 2026
- Liverpool Empire: Monday 19 – Saturday 31 October 2026
- Edinburgh Playhouse: Tuesday 17 – Saturday 21 November 2026
- Newcastle Theatre Royal: Monday 18 – Saturday 30 January 2027
The tour will also be visiting Stoke On Trent, Eastbourne, Woking, Aberdeen, Canterbury, Nottingham, Sheffield, Wimbledon, Birmingham, Oxford and Southampton with dates and venues to be announced soon.