Get in, loser: Broadway's newest 'Mean Girls' are ready to insult (and enlighten) you

The stars of School Girls; Or the African Mean Girls Play during opening night curtain call for the play's Broadway run this fall.In this final week of performances, livestreaming is available.

Left to right: Nia Otchere-Sarfo, Jordan Rice, Lucia Aremu, Denee Benton, Heather Alicia Simms, Erin Morton, Jasmine Amy Rogers and Patina Miller.Bruce Glikas/Getty Images hide caption What would it mean to become Miss Ghana 1986? Fame, fortune, perhaps rubbing elbows with '80s superstar Bobby Brown? For a group of six teenage girls at the Aburi Girls Boarding School, the answer is: everything.The battle for the crown is at the heart of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, written by Tony Award-nominated playwright Jocelyn Bioh.

The play is ending a Broadway run this week and celebrating with livestream broadcasts on The League of Live Stream Theater's website for a fee (but is free for high schoolers).School Girls is set at a boarding school in Ghana in 1986.It follows Paulina, the school's queen bee and her crew, whom she frequently belittles and bullies over their looks."So, do you want to be fat-fat? Or fit? And popular." Paulina asks Nana, harassing her over eating porridge instead of an apple at lunch.Ahead of a visit from a pageant recruiter to the school, Paulina's plans to win Miss Ghana go awry after a new transfer student arrives: Ericka from … Ohio!Ericka exposes Paulina's toxic behavior and shows her up during a performance of Whitney Houston's Greatest Love of All.

Ericka, being lighter-skinned than Paulina, sparks a clash between the school's headmistress and the pageant director over beauty and who would have the best chance of winning the Miss Global Universe pageant.Paulina becomes the victim of circumstances that she cannot control.School Girls explores the themes of girlhood and impossible societal beauty standards with...