It's very fun, but ever so slightly lacklustre (I know I'm not the first person to say that about this musical but eh whatever).
IDK how thought-through casting Gretchen and Karen as WOC while Regina and Cady are white are, but it worked for me! Added an interesting layer to the dynamics, especially with Gretchen. 'What's Wrong With Me?', I've seen palyed for laughs, but this production made it absolutely heartbreaking and she very much made her natural hair a part of it with 'my body, my face, my hair'. BABY.
Pretty sad that they cut the Plastics medley verse in Meet the Plastics - it's such a brilliant little piece of songwriting and I absolutely love it as a trope in musicals :( Also, they cut the whole of Fearless, Do This Thing and the first Stupid with Love (OK I guess :/) but also Stop! Criminal. Damian was an absolute scene-stealer and deserved to have that kept in. I guess they wanted to make the second half shorter but c'mon!
Finally, Janice was brilliant and adorable. They did a good job of making her look truly an outsider and a weird little lesbian with a mullet and a giant T-shirt and funky awkward dance moves. It worked a lot better than the objectively stunning and graceful Auli'i Cravalho, in my opinion. Like yeah, don't tone down the reasons why she's bullied and celebrate her being herself anyway!