This ‘Mean Girls’ Song Was Cut For Being Too Broadway

Mean Girls will bring the 2018 Broadway musical written by Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin to the big screen, but just like any adaptation that attempts to bring a story from the stage to the multiplex, some obstacles arise. One of the musical numbers from the successful Mean Girls Broadway show had to be cut from the movie, primarily because it was too "Broadway" to serve the film. During a recent interview with Collider's Perri Nemiroff, Mean Girls directors Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr. explained why "Stop" didn't make the cut. Perez said: "The one thing, I'm not sure if it was gonna best serve it, ultimately, it didn't best serve it, but the one that I was like, 'Damn, we should have really kept it,' was "Stop."" Jayne interjected noting that "the thing is, "Stop" is so Broadway," to which Perez wholeheartedly agreed.