Tina Fey is already juggling a hit TV show with a successful career as a film actress, but it sounds like she’s getting ready to focus more on being a playwrite. Keep reading for when she hopes to deliver Cady, Regina George and the crew to the Big White Way! Rumors have been flying for years that she was going to get around to doing this one day, but you’ll never believe what caused her to decide to start on it now!
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Amusing lady Tina Fey showed up to one of the “Tribeca Talks” at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival to talk about her Netflix series, “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”. This is SUCH unbelievable news that our dream is finally becoming a reality!
As previously reported, Tony Award-nominated Legally Blonde lyricist Nell Benjamin is collaborating with Golden Globe victor Fey and Fey’s husband, composer Jeffrey Richmond, on a stage musical adaptation of the 2004 dark comedy film. Stream music, completely unlimited and ad-free, RIGHT HERE.
“The thing about social media, is, it doesn’t dramatize well?” she concluded/asked, according to Deadline.
On the most recent season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, co-creator Fey plays Kimmy’s accidental therapist, a role she’d “backpocketed” for herself since the very beginning-unlike season one’s Marcia Clark parody, which she says she was “coerced” by the writers into playing. “On Netflix, they really want you to make the episodes as long as possible for the amount of time you have”. Now all of that would happen all over Snapchat or Twitter! It’s insane how that movie is like a time capsule now!
Stay tuned for more information about Mean Girls the Musical!
Though a Fey and Poehler-starring sitcom may be off the table, Fey told Holbrook that working with and hiring women is important to her. The show follows Kimmy Schmidt, a woman who has been living in a bomb shelter for 15 years, thinking the world had come to an end, as she navigates present-day Manhattan.
“The amusing thing is that I think we both know this to be true, it’s because we’re actually both alphas”, she explained. Fey and Poehler are longtime collaborators known for Saturday Night Live and Mean Girls.
“I would say never say never, but I really respect directing and I know that I still think of things from a writer or actor’s point of view”, Fey says.
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“Could you imagine if I was rolling out that awful Marcia Clark (now)”, Fey said.
