This year’s winter musical was Mean Girls: High School Version directed by Zachary Kocurek-Gentry, and creative director David Liles. Mean Girls is a story about the issues with cliques in high school, and how it can separate even the closest of friends. Cady, a new student at Northshore high tries to make friends at her new school; the first friends she makes are the stereotypical ‘outcasts’, but she soon finds herself pulled into a group of popular girls called the ‘plastics’. As the story progresses, Cady becomes more and more distant from her original friends until it blows up in her face and causes a whole chain of problems. Zoe Drumright, who played Cady, says her favorite part about Mean Girls was the fact that it was “an experience like no other, both on and off the stage”. Every character in the play is important, the ensemble members carried the multiple large song and dance numbers, truly enhancing the entertainment aspects of the musical. Shiloh Shaffer, a member of the ensemble said that “it was a good experience, and [she] loved the overall message of the story”.