Jennifer Ellison and Faye Tozer Join Mean Girls Musical UK Tour in Triple Adult Roles
Jennifer Ellison and Faye Tozer will share the adult female roles in the Mean Girls musical's first UK and Ireland tour, each taking on three characters across different tour stops. Ellison plays Ms Heron, Ms Norbury and Mrs George in Bristol, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Wimbledon, Birmingham, Southampton and Newcastle. Tozer covers the same trio of roles in Canterbury, Blackpool, Dublin, Crawley, Bradford, Norwich, Nottingham and Sheffield. (WhatsOnStage)
Tozer is best known as a member of the pop group Steps. The official tour site describes her as a Steps icon, TV personality and West End actor. Ellison's credits span stage and screen, including the film Chicago and the TV drama Brookside. Both performers will play what the production calls the "cool Mom" Mrs George alongside the roles of Cady's mother Ms Heron and teacher Ms Norbury. (WhatsOnStage; Mean Girls Musical)
The tour's principal cast features Emily Lane as Cady Heron, Vivian Panka as Regina George, Sophie Pourret as Karen Smith, Georgie Buckland as Janis Sarkisian, Kiara Dario as Gretchen Wieners, Max Gill as Damian Hubbard, Karim Zeroual as Kevin Ganatra, Joshua Elmore as Mr Duvall and Ben Oatley as Aaron Samuels. The musical has a book by Tina Fey, music and vocal arrangements by Jeff Richmond, and lyrics by Nell Benjamin — the creative team behind the 2004 film on which the show is based. (WhatsOnStage)
Mean Girls premiered in 2017 at the National Theatre in Washington, DC, before transferring to Broadway in 2018. The West End production ran from June 2024 to June 2025 and was seen by over 330,000 people during its twelve-month stay. The UK and Ireland tour is produced by Lorne Michaels, Crossroads Live and Sonia Friedman Productions — the same producing team behind the London run. (WhatsOnStage)
For audiences outside London, the tour brings the show to cities that did not see it during the West End run. Tozer's dates include Blackpool Opera House from 18 to 22 August 2026 and Dublin's Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, with further stops running into 2027. The full route spans England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. (Mean Girls Musical)
The casting of two well-known performers in rotating adult roles mirrors a pattern familiar to long-running tours, where name recognition helps sustain audience interest across a lengthy schedule. Both Ellison and Tozer bring fanbases from outside theatre — pop music in Tozer's case, film and television in Ellison's — to a show whose appeal already crosses age groups.
