She doesn’t even go here

The enduring relevance of Mean Girls (or, why I had to go see the new film and why it was totally fetch)

Dirty Dancing, not my favourite movie to begin with¹ was adapted into a stage musical. I know this has happened to other films, but the first cut is always the deepest² and I am a little haunted by the awfulness of it, that one time I saw it.

I am generally pro-musical³ but still wary. I held off on seeing We Will Rock You for many years on account of the i…