Jamestown High School to stage Mean Girls on June 25 and 26

Jamestown Public Schools’ Advanced Theater Arts class will bring Mean Girls High School Version to the Jamestown High School Theater on June 25 and June 26, with both performances set for 7 p.m. The two-night run puts Jamestown students on the stage in a show built around the social pressure, status games and shifting loyalties that many teenagers recognize immediately.

The musical is the licensed high school edition of the Broadway hit, adapted from Tina Fey’s 2004 film. Music Theatre International says the show is available exclusively for accredited high schools in the United States and Canada, and notes that the Broadway production drew 12 Tony Award nominations in 2018. For Jamestown, that means the school is not mounting a one-off classroom project but presenting a recognized musical with a national footprint.

The production also keeps a familiar summer slot alive at Jamestown High School. Last year, the district staged The SpongeBob Musical at the same theater on June 26 and June 27, also at 7 p.m., showing that the late-June performance window has become a recurring part of the school’s arts calendar. Jamestown High School, at 1509 10th Street NE, lists enrollment at 739 students, and the school is led by Principal Darby Heinert and Assistant Principal Brandon Bata.

That makes the show more than an evening of entertainment. In a school district that serves the county seat of Stutsman County and includes four elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, an alternative learning center and a transitional living program for students with disabilities, the theater program gives students another place to build confidence, work as a team and be seen by the community. Mean Girls also fits that work well: its story centers on belonging, reputation and peer pressure, the same forces that shape a lot of real high school life.

Jamestown High School last presented Mean Girls: High School Version in 2023, and local coverage at the time said the production was intended to highlight the many talented females in the program. Bringing it back in 2026 gives families another chance to support student performers in a title that is likely to draw both theater regulars and people who know the movie. Two nights, one familiar story and a local cast on the Jamestown High School stage make it an easy summer outing with real meaning for the students involved.